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...court proceeding, did not tell anyone about the assault because, she claims, she repressed all memory of the ordeal. Only after she began therapy a year later did the horror resurface. "It was his hands. It was his beard. It was his body,'' she said last week in a pretrial hearing before Judge William Groff. "He ripped the covers off my bed, pinned my arms over my head and pushed my legs apart." Hungerford denies all charges and has pleaded not guilty...
Topol has since filed civil suits not only against Woodfield and Penn but against Bates as well for failing to warn Penn of Woodfield's record. Having supported her before, Penn has reversed course: in a pretrial memorandum filed in February, Penn charges that the affair "grew out of her strong sexual attraction to and romantic feelings for Woodfield." Penn has asked for her diary to prove her consent; meanwhile, says Topol's lawyer, Alice Ballard, Bates is trying to get records from her psychotherapist...
...government promised him $45,000 to act as an informant in the case. Michael Fitzpatrick's testimony provided fresh ammunition for defense attorney William Kunstler, who contends defendant Qubilah Shabazz was entrapped by the informant. Fitzpatrick, who allegedly was hired by Shabazz to kill Farrakhan, said during a pretrial hearing that he has received $34,000 for secretly recording telephone conversations with Shabazz and expects to get $11,000 more. Shabazz said during the taped conversations that she believed Farrakhan was involved in her father's 1965 assassination and was a threat to her mother. Farrakhan denies that allegation...
...torturing and killing a 16-year-old Somali boy who had trespassed on their compound in Belet Huen while he was looking for food. One of the troopers was sentenced to five years in prison; the other eight were either acquitted or are appealing lesser charges. During the pretrial investigation, officials discovered that a handful of soldiers in the Airborne, calling themselves the Rebels, had adopted the Confederate flag as their banner and openly proclaimed racist views...
...admissibility of DNA evidence -- slated to begin on January 4 and last four to eight weeks. If Judge Lance Ito okays the motion it would move up the trial significantly from the earlier March estimate. The Simpson team said that a "separate, time-consuming" -- and undoubtedly much-publicized -- pretrial hearing would bias the sitting jury and thereby violate Simpson's rights. It represents a complete turnabout in the strategy adopted so far of hurling every roadblock -- including the Kelly-Frye proceeding -- to keep the DNA evidence out of court. Still, says TIME Los Angeles reporter Elaine Lafferty...