Word: prosecutor
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...asymmetry of the available insults reinforces the oft-noted dilemma of women in public life: how to be business-like without inviting perceptions like "ball-buster" or bitch. O.J. prosecutor Marcia Clark had to be remanded to the make-over salon where she was recoiffed and taught to make tender references to her offspring in public. Hillary Clinton, perhaps more than any woman in public life, has been subject to relentless review by the gender police. Even when she stood steadfastly by her man during the Gennifer Flowers incident, she was savaged for doing so with insufficient humility and possibly...
Last week a federal prosecutor in Minnesota suggested that it could not -- that, in the words of one little girl's father, chickens will come home to + roost, that violence must beget violence, that the world is a tragedy in a continuous loop. Minneapolis U.S. Attorney David Lillehaug charged on Thursday that Qubilah Shabazz, 34, had for seven months negotiated with a hit man for a murder and had in fact moved to Minnesota to make a down payment on the crime. Her alleged target: Louis Farrakhan, the bitter rival of her father Malcolm X, who was murdered...
...much hinged upon last week's hearing to decide whether the jury should hear evidence that O.J. had beaten and threatened Nicole Brown Simpson from the earliest days of their acquaintance until just before she and Ron Goldman were slashed to death. Based upon the physical evidence alone, lead prosecutor Marcia Clark can make a strong circumstantial case. But to persuade jurors to picture O.J. with a knife in his hand, she may also need to present them with some of the uglier scenes from the Simpson marriage...
...circumstance of his execution implausible, if not illegal. Though the U.S. Supreme Court curtly dismissed his final appeal by a vote of 6 to 3, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote a sharp / dissent. "I find this course of events deeply troubling," he wrote. Stevens said that if the prosecutor's arguments at the trial of Jacobs' sister were correct, "then Jacobs is innocent of capital murder." Said George Kendall of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund: "The state should have reopened his case and, at the least, vacated his death sentence, if not his conviction." Even the Vatican denounced the execution...
...gasp rose in a Union, S.C., courtroom today when the prosecutor handling the Susan Smith case said he would seek the death penalty. Smith is charged with double homicide in the deaths of her two young sons. The young mother admitted in November that she had pushed her car into a lake with the toddlers strapped inside. In court today, Smith sobbed as the murder charges were read aloud, then returned to the defense table as her lawyer said she was not yet ready to enter a plea. (Judge Costa Pleiconas, who set the trial date for April 24, entered...