Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Gasior's testimony in August 1991 received wide media coverage, there still was little follow-up. She was, however, invited to testify before an Atlanta grand jury. From Gasior's point of view, her second experience with the Justice Department was a disaster. She insists that the prosecutor was aggressively hostile and refused to listen to her story. Soon after her appearance, the U.S. Attorney's office in Atlanta sent a letter to Kennametal stating that the grand jury found the company blameless...
...Hood, Texas, where they divorce them for an equal sum. The women, who speak no English, are then forced into brothels in Houston, Detroit and other cities. Compelled to repay the marriage fees and plane fares, and threatened with violence, "these women live in fear," says Harris County civil prosecutor Terry O'Rourke. A local crackdown has sizably cut down the traffic since the late 1980s, but it still continues, and crime rings are now supplanting some of the Korean women with Salvadorans. In Los Angeles the trade is export oriented: White Americans have been lured to Japan on singing...
Assistant District Attorney Mary Beth Cassidy, who is the prosecutor in the case, said Hogue could face a sentence of up to 15 years if convicted on all three charges, each of which carries a maximum sentence of five years. Hogue will be represented by a public defender, Reilly said...
...became agitated with moderate hyperpnea ((rapid or deep breathing)); and immediately after saying "Take it off!" once again, he fell into unconsciousness. The mask was then left in place . . . Heartbeat was undetectable about 3 minutes after last breath." Kevorkian's lawyer says the report was an erroneous draft. The prosecutor declined to press murder charges...
...ruling last week, Kevorkian seems to have the upper hand -- for the moment. "As a practical matter he may now be untouchable unless a new law is passed and then we start all over again," says University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar. "He now has the police and prosecutors off-balance." But they would love to take him on. "Every person from the Governor on down has been attacked personally about being a Nazi or a member of a right-wing organization," says Oakland County prosecutor Richard Thompson. "He's basically thumbed his nose at law enforcement, in part...