Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warning to black marketeers all over Russia, excerpts from the trial were broadcast over the state radio net work. Unlike the kangaroo courts of the Stalinist past, however, the proceedings seemed fair enough. State Prosecutor Aleksandr Borodankov went out of his way to point out that the U.S. and Russia had been allies during World War II. Whereas the maximum sentence for such black-market operations is eight years, Borodankov asked only for a five-year term for Wortham, who admitted to three separate transactions, and was willing to let Gilmour (one transaction, no bear) off with...
...prosecution appeared to have just about everything going for it: a motive for the murder, the defendant's admitted access to the victim, an eyewitness to describe the killing in gruesome detail, a famous medical expert to support the accuser's testimony and, not least, a prosecutor who had an extraordinary record of 30 murder trials without an acquittal. Yet when the verdict came last week, it was Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey-himself undefeated in 19 homicide cases (TIME, Dec. 9)-who shouted "Hooray!" After just four hours and 27 minutes of deliberation, a Freehold, N.J., jury...
Hypnosis v. Free Will. For a time, Prosecutor Vincent Keuper had his innings. His first and best witness was Marjorie Farber, still attractive at 52, who testified that she had a hypnosis-induced passion for the dark, slender anesthesiologist. After he first mesmerized her in February 1963 in order to break her cigarette habit, they saw each other "constantly." Later, she testified, Coppolino said of her husband: "That man has got to go." Then, she went on, the doctor gave her a drug with which to dispatch Farber. Her nerve failed twice, she said, and so she summoned Coppolino from...
...Prosecutor's Nightmare. Although Bailey put on his own medical witnesses to cast doubt on Helpern's testimony and to deride the possibility of crime by hypnotism, his major strategy was to impugn Marge Farber.* Throughout he described her as a woman scorned who lived only for revenge on Coppolino. "She would sit in his lap in the electric chair," said Bailey, "just to see that he dies." When Coppolino moved to Florida, Widow Farber and her two daughters followed, settling in a house next door. Bailey developed testimony that Marge wanted to marry Coppolino after his first...
...armed themselves with homemade zip guns, broke out of the county jail during the weekend, kidnaped a policeman, and wounded a guard. Recaptured within an hour, they brazenly demanded a mistrial on the ground of "prejudicial publicity." When that failed, Mayberry scorned the trial as "comic opera," called the prosecutor "Gilbert" and the judge "Sullivan." "If I can't get my rights legally," Langnes shouted at the judge, "I'll have to blow your head off. You understand that, punk...