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...week finally settled the lawsuits each had brought against the other. So who won? While Laxalt dropped his $250 million claim that the McClatchy-owned Sacramento Bee libeled him in a 1983 story about a Carson City casino-hotel his family once owned, the former Nevada Senator declared that pretrial investigations found no evidence of illegal skimming. And while Bee President-Editor C.K. McClatchy dropped a $6 million countersuit, he maintained that his paper had never reported there had been skimming -- only that IRS agents suspected it. Said he: "We have not retracted, we have not apologized, and we have...
...Supreme Court approves pretrial detention, meaning no bail for dangerous defendants. -- A verdict in the Landis case...
...with vigor, typically against accused mobsters and drug dealers who often have the money to meet high bail. Thirty-four states also permit the threat posed by the defendant to figure in some bail decisions. On the federal level, there has been about a 36% increase in pretrial detainees since the act was passed, from a daily average of 5,383 in 1984 to 7,328 last year, or about one-seventh of those in federal lockup. "It puts a burden on us to find jail space," says Georgia U.S. Marshal Lynn Duncan...
...reversing that decision, the Supreme Court ruled that pretrial detention is not an impermissible punishment forbidden by the Fifth Amendment, because it is not intended as punishment at all. Rather, it was designed by Congress as a "regulatory" act, with the legitimate Government goal of public safety. "The mere fact that a person is detained does not inexorably lead to the conclusion that the government has imposed punishment," Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote for the majority...
Perhaps the greatest advantage to the defense is the "Article 32" pretrial hearing now under way in both cases. A grand jury proceeding, the nearest civilian equivalent, hears the prosecution's case without the defendant or his lawyers present. At Article 32 hearings, the defense is not only present but can challenge witnesses and call its own. Even William Kunstler, the activist attorney representing Lonetree, concedes that "at the end of Article 32, the defense knows almost everything that the prosecution...