Word: pretrial
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...large blocks of stock were owned by Greenspun and Crockett. According to the indictment, Maheu urged Crockett to sell his Air West holdings, assuring him that he would be "made whole" for any losses. Similarly, according to pretrial testimony in the Maheu libel case, Greenspun was assured by an associate of Maheu that "Mr. Hughes isn't going to let you get caught holding the bag" by selling Air West stock at a low price. Around Dec. 31, 1968, the Government charges, Crockett, Greenspun and Charnay unloaded 46,000 snares of Air West stock, or slightly more than...
...aspects, the situation was not unique. Another recent heart donor at Stanford had been shot. Andrew Lyons, the alleged murderer, claimed in his pretrial defense that the surgeons caused the death. The judge in that case rejected the argument on the theory that the heart would never have been removed if the man had not first been fatally shot in the head. Regardless of the opposing rulings, Stanford Heart Surgeon Norman Shumway is worried that both cases will discourage the use of assault victims as organ donors. The Flores case, however, will be appealed, leaving it to a higher California...
...court battle over pretrial publicity and the protection of newsmen's sources was avoided last week because of Spiro Agnew's resignation. The subpoenas that had been issued to journalists became moot. The basic issues, however, remain very much alive...
...Edgar Hoover. Furthermore, the inevitability of leaks and publicity in famous cases, as well as modern means of communication, has long since rendered obsolete the notion of the pristinely "ignorant" jury. Experience in such trials has demonstrated the precautions that can protect the process-a delay to let the pretrial publicity die down, especially careful questioning of potential jurors to weed out the biased and sequestering of the chosen jurors during the actual trial...
...have reprinted the Times editorial in full. Others have mentioned it. Dean Mills of the Baltimore Sun's Washington bureau wrote a lengthy piece about the difficulties of conducting a successful prosecution in an atmosphere of supercharged publicity. In it he quoted Paul C. Reardon, an expert on pretrial publicity, who condemned the circulation of "hearsay on hearsay, statements in which people are being damned two or three removes away...