Word: prosecutor
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Antonio Di Pietro, a prosecutor who became a national hero in Italy for his campaign against bribe-taking politicians, asked to be reassigned in a protest against a decree issued by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing government. The decree would eliminate the prosecutors' ability to detain corruption suspects, a powerful tool used against thousands of prominent citizens...
...actors. Simpson's have come, almost literally, from Central Casting. Brian Kaelin, with his sleepy-surfer blondness, is a part-time actor whose films include Beach Fever. Robert Shapiro, the Rupert Murdoch look-alike, and Gerald Uelmen, a less telegenic Matlock, play bad cop- good cop for the defense. Prosecutor Marcia Clark is a former professional dancer. Clark's witnesses have a nice racial mix out of Hill Street Blues: Greek-American male nurse, Chinese-American criminalist, middle-American detectives. During recesses, big-shot defense attorneys -- hired guns who fit the western-movie stereotypes of cowboy, gambler and hard-eyed...
Gradually, prosecutor Clark's direction became evident: she was clearing a large enough block out of O.J.'s June 12 schedule to accommodate a murder. Now her witnesses had established a plausible 76 minutes during which Simpson could have driven the two miles to Nicole's condominium, killed and returned; bumped into Kaelin's wall while re-entering his property via a service path; and been spotted by Park as he crossed back to the main house. The clincher in the scenario was an especially dramatic piece of evidence: a bloody glove found on the service path -- the apparent mate...
...least part of its hand, and the judge had tipped hers. After such a rousing affirmation of the police and their judgment, it was unlikely that she would consign their case to legal limbo. From then on, Clark's presentation of her witnesses seemed less like that of a prosecutor fighting for her case than of a victorious poker player laying down a royal flush, card by card...
...special prosecutor's initial report pleases the White House...