Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...justice says his time on the court has caused him to reflect on legal experts he holds in high regard. Breyer said he includes among his list of heroes former Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg and Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald...
Most trials begin at the brutal edge, marshaling the facts of the crime before attempting to pin them on the accused. But prosecutor Marcia Clark and her team chose to set the murder aside for the moment and instead cast their line far back into the past, calling to the stand a cluster of witnesses to events that happened six, even nine years ago, each one embellishing the picture of Simpson as a cruel and abusive spouse...
Excuses, exschmuses. We want some real answers. We demand the hard facts of God's whereabouts and goings-on beginning on November 1, 1994. An examination of God's schedule and communications is necessary, and we think it fitting that the prosecutor ask the judge to subpoena both the appointment book kept by God's secretary and the phone records held by AT&T Long Distance...
...Prosecutor Marcia Clark was steaming, too angry even to listen to her favorite blues tapes as she drove home that night. After 20 murder trials--almost all of which she's won--she thought she had seen it all. Of course she had expected a little razzle-dazzle from Johnnie Cochran Jr. during his opening arguments, but, she says, the surprise unveiling of 14 new witnesses by O.J. Simpson's defense lawyers stunned even her. ``This was plain sleazy,'' Clark said in an interview with Time. ``I was floored. They disregarded the judge's orders...
...Clark, a steely prosecutor who says she must be ``convinced 200% that a defendant is guilty before I'll try a case,'' is hardly incapacitated. Every night last week, after going home for an hour to tuck her two children into bed, and all through the weekend, she was back in her small 18th-floor office at the Los Angeles County courthouse, munching on celery (she does not eat dinner), smoking Dunhills and scribbling furiously on a white legal pad. Clark, deputy district attorney Christopher Darden and the six other lawyers working on the case--along with a bunch...