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...Panama winds down, the battle in the U.S. is just shaping up. Noriega now has at his disposal an arsenal he could not call upon at home: the ample resources of a defendant in an American courtroom. The general's lawyers raised the standard defense objections about pretrial publicity and inadmissible evidence. Both objections have been given a fresh twist by Noriega's singular status as a de facto head of state tracked down by an invading army. The biggest question, however, is more a matter of politics than of legal procedure. With Noriega in court, will Bush also...
...Pretrial publicity is amazing in the amount," the attorney said. "Not only the amount but the type of publicity...
Noriega co-counsel Steven Kcllin has noted other potential legal pitfalls in the case, including extreme pretrial publicity and Noriega's links with U.S. intelligence agencies, but U.S. Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh said he was confident the case was solid...
...testimony last week gave a much needed boost to the prosecution. Since the trial got under way three weeks ago, four key witnesses have recanted their pretrial testimony. Two of them admitted they had initially been swayed by hopes of sharing in the $7.5 million reward offered by the government. The court has been sharply criticized for agreeing to preconditions set by Lisbet Palme for her testimony, including a ban on tape recorders and television cameras. The prosecutors, whose case against Pettersson is built on circumstantial evidence, have yet to come up with a murder weapon or a motive...
...center of the controversy is a pretrial hearing that ended last week in the same Bronx, N.Y., courthouse that was depicted in Tom Wolfe's best seller The Bonfire of the Vanities. Joseph Castro, a 38-year-old janitor, stands accused of killing a neighbor and her two-year-old daughter. According to the prosecutors, a portion of DNA extracted from a spot of blood on Castro's watch matched DNA taken from the murdered mother. The chance of such a match occurring at random, said scientists called by the prosecution, was 1 in 100 million...