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...pretrial conference late last week, Burt told Judge Leval that Westmoreland planned to narrow his suit "to make the trial measurably easier." Burt said he will focus primarily on refuting what he claims is CBS's implication that Johnson and the Joint Chiefs had been willfully deceived by the reporting from Viet Nam; Burt then dropped the charge that CBS had libeled Westmoreland by accusing the general of misleading Congress and the public. Boies said that the move showed "the case is beginning to unravel." The trial, which may last as long as four months, is nevertheless expected...
...legal arguments, sharply drawn in pretrial statements, are reminiscent of those heard in the Abscam cases. The lawyers for fallen Auto Magnate John Zachary De Lorean claim that he was a victim of entrapment when the FBI secretly filmed him fingering packets of cocaine in a Los Angeles hotel room nearly 17 months ago. The Government contends that its undercover sting was aimed at known drug smugglers and that De Lorean, to the astonishment of federal agents, walked right into the net. He is charged with conspiring to distribute $24 million worth of cocaine in a futile effort to raise...
...pretrial publicity has been vast. De Lorean, lanky and handsome at 59, and his fashion model wife, Cristina, 34, make lively copy and photos. De Lorean's rise to the top corporate ranks at General Motors, his attempt to prove that he was an automotive genius by creating and producing his own $26,000 futuristic car, and his disastrous wrong turn into association with agents posing as drug smugglers, all are the stuff of high drama. Declares Defense Attorney Donald Ré: "I have very serious concerns about whether an impartial jury, to which John is entitled...
...unusual legal maneuver, the state is trying the six defendants in two groups, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Reason: pretrial statements made by some of the defendants could not legally be used as evidence against them if all were tried together. Prosecutors have also substantially revised original reports that numerous bar patrons witnessed and even encouraged the rape with whoops and cheers. They say that aside from the six defendants and the victim, only three people were in the bar, and that the bartender and a customer sought to call the police, but were prevented from...
...researchers also tracked 1,650 civil lawsuits through federal and state courts and interviewed the more than 1,300 lawyers involved. The attorneys spent only about 30 hours on the typical case, which usually earned them well under $2,500, and they had median annual earnings of $45,000. Pretrial discovery, the early phase of civil litigation in which the parties seek information from each other, and which Burger blamed for causing needless trial delays, was minimal or nonexistent in the majority of cases studied...