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...Pretrial mudslinging has even reached the posh offices of Commissioner Pete Rozelle, whom Davis charged with scalping tickets to last year's Super Bowl. Rozelle vehemently denies this, though he admits selling a dozen tickets at face value to a travel-agency director who resold them as part of Super Bowl tour packages. The scalping charge is the latest round in a long-running feud between Davis and Rozelle, czar of the merged leagues. Rozelle has refused comment, but Davis is less restrained, saying: "I think he's corrupt...
...initial police and press reaction to the arrest drew criticism from some British legal experts mindful of the country's rigid contempt laws, which limit pretrial publicity. While Establishment dailies such as the London Times and the Guardian cautiously avoided any reference to the Ripper in reporting the story, other newspapers, including the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, did not hesitate to underscore the suspected connection for their readers. Britain's Solicitor General, Sir Ian Percival, in a general warning to the nation's editors, intimated that they might be liable to prosecution if their stories...
...voted, 6 to 3, to deny tenure to Psycholinguist Maija Blaubergs, 33, a teacher in the college of education since 1972. It was the third time in as many years that Blaubergs had been denied promotion and tenure, and she sued the University of Georgia, charging sexual discrimination. During pretrial interrogation, Dinnan refused to disclose how he had voted. Instead he asked: "If academic freedom is not the right to judge one's peers free from outside pressure or intimidation, then what...
Federal prosecutors may have built their case against Veverka in part on his admissions during the two pretrial interviews. Veverka's lawyers, Douglas Hartman and Denis Dean, are expected to argue that the grant of immunity was retroactive, thus shielding all their client's confessions from use by the Justice Department. Says Hartman: "It's a very sad day when the state takes a man, uses him to the hilt, and then the Feds come in and react to political pressure and indict him. We feel Veverka has been betrayed by the judicial system." Veverka thinks...
...Newspapers Inc. vs. Virginia, proclaimed for the first time that the First Amendment gives the press and public a right of access to criminal trials. The Justices seemed to be trying to reassure the press after last year's confusing Gannett decision, which, although occasioned only by a pretrial proceeding, was read by many lower courts as an invitation to close entire criminal trials...