Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...century here in this tiny city, but none of it has to do with that impeachment thing going on 100 miles to the south. No, what has folks here riveted is the really sordid trial. That would be the murder trial of Thomas Capano, a former state prosecutor and high-profile attorney, which comes complete not just with O.J. Simpsonesque details of sex, class, betrayal and death but also with a surprise nearly every...
HENRY HYDE The House's lead prosecutor and his 12 Hamilton Burgers are told by Senate to forget the Jane Does...
...debate over constitutional issues--Starr decided to apply the same set of values to the far harsher world of criminal prosecution. He says he modeled his decision-making process on "the way judges on a collegial court operate," a consensual, deliberative style that was alien to most of his prosecutors. Every afternoon at 5 o'clock when he was in Washington, he and his 30 lawyers and 10 investigators crowded around a 30-ft.-long conference table to hear the daily report and discuss strategy. Starr previewed the agenda but had Bittman run the meetings so Starr could absorb more...
...ashamed of. Even they have messes and complications. Is there anybody with no secrets he or she would be tempted to commit perjury for? That's not a blanket excuse for perjury. But when the perjury was a your-secrets-or-your-life stickup staged by a prosecutor who couldn't nail his target on anything else, anyone with an ounce of imagination is tempted to excuse it. People who flesh out the Bill-and-Monica story rather than stripping it down do not imagine that Bill Clinton will go unpunished unless Congress takes him to the woodshed...
...that point, I'm not sure." And Mike DeWine, a Republican Senator from Ohio who is opposed to censure on constitutional grounds, suspects that anything can happen once the Senate begins trying to uncover the facts. "It has a much different impact, hearing the witnesses," explains DeWine, a former prosecutor. "When you get into a trial all bets are off. You just don't know which way it will...