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Walking out of a pretrial hearing last week, Kobe Bryant looked as apprehensive as he ever has since sexual-assault charges were brought against the NBA superstar. The apparent reason: potentially damaging testimony by an Eagle County, Colo., undercover investigator. "Detective A," testifying from behind a black curtain, described the scene when detectives made their first contact with Bryant at his hotel after a Colorado teenager accused him of sexual assault last summer. The detective said Bryant's bodyguard--Troy Laster, an off-duty Los Angeles police officer--commented, "If this is what I think...
MEDICAL SECRETS As pretrial hearings continue in the rape case against the NBA star, it was revealed that because of a hospital blunder, the medical records of the accuser were mistakenly sent to the defense. The judge ordered the copies destroyed...
...suspected terrorists? It seemed to be a possibility when U.S. officials leveled charges this fall against a Muslim Army chaplain and two base interpreters. But the notion that U.S. personnel were working for the enemy took a knock last week when the cleric, Captain James Yee, was freed from pretrial detention in a naval brig to work in the chaplain's office at Fort Benning, Ga. Yee still faces charges that he improperly took classified material from the prison, but suspicions that he might be a spy seem to have evaporated. If the Pentagon had real concerns about...
Moussaoui went to work right away plastering the docket with pretrial motions with titles like "Motion to Stop the Cynical Comedy, Parody, of Justice Directed by DJ Brinkema," filed in July 2002, and "Motion to Stop the Pervert Game of the Fascist Bureau of Inquisition Against My Distraught Mother," filed last March. The government was not happy, fearing that Moussaoui would use the courtroom as a stage to promote al-Qaeda's cause and perhaps even send coded messages to other terrorists. At the same time, Moussaoui's fired defense lawyers, still on the case as standby counsel, worried that...
Present at one of the pretrial meetings was Smith Professor of Law Henry J. Steiner, who knew Okhotin from his time studying at Harvard this year...