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After her arraignment Friday, Smith left the courthouse with her head covered against the crowd's jeers and hisses. Prosecutor Thomas Pope said he was still weighing whether he would seek the death penalty. Asked about her state of mind, her lawyer, David Bruck -- a specialist in capital cases -- took a long pause before answering, then said somberly, "She is heartbroken." Her family, says one friend, was "living hour by hour...
...reject many candidates who regularly read newspapers and magazines and watch TV news. (His approved fare for the dozen jurors: edited tapes of sitcoms and the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.) "Ito cut down the pool of intelligent, independent people, and they weren't just whites," said Harvey Giss, a Los Angeles prosecutor. Even Dimitrius, though pleased with the outcome, said "Both sides lost good jurors in the process...
...Bronco-driving pal who led the police on alow-speed chase through Los Angeles-- won't be charged with any crime in connection with the case, L.A. District Attorney Gil Garcetti said today. Garcetti said there wasn't enough evidence to try Cowlings for aiding O.J. -- something the prosecutor had threatened before.Post your opinion on theCrimebulletin board...
Some U.S. analysts claim they have purchased at least as big a chunk of the government. Recently retired Bogota DEA chief Joe Toft says narcodollars have influenced "from 50% to 75% of the Colombian Congress." The traffickers have also bought an unknown number of prosecutors, policemen and soldiers. But "their most significant victory," claims a U.S. diplomat, was the surrender program for retiring dons. "The Cali cartel dictated the penal-code reform," he says. Under the 1993 code revisions, drug traffickers who turn themselves in can have their sentences reduced by as much as two-thirds at the discretion...
...discussions with Bossert and other administrators, the attitude of the Harvard officials was that this was just 'teenage hijinks,'--those were the words they used with me," Yanetti says. "But as a prosecutor I know that death threats like these should always be taken seriously, and that's what the Harvard police and the D.A.'s office were trying...