Word: prosecutor
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Good trial lawyers, it is said, are good storytellers. Class Day speaker Scott Turow is a case in point. An accomplished Chicago prosecutor, Turow penned bestsellers Presumed Innocent and The Burden of Proof...
...dramatic narrative of Rusty Sabich, a deputy prosecutor in a large, Midwestern city who is accused of murdering his colleague and former mistress, became the subject of the blockbuster movie directed by Alan Pakula and starring Harrison Ford...
...school in 1978, Turow became anassistant U.S. attorney in Chicago. He spent eightyears as a deputy prosecutor and was involved inOperation Greylord, a widespread crackdown topurge the Illinois legal system of corruption andfraud...
...leading to the executive's safe return. There are no allegations that Reso, a stable family man who has spent holidays working behind soup-kitchen counters, is off on a scam of his own. "There's nothing to indicate a voluntary disappearance," said a spokeswoman in the Morris County prosecutor's office. Law-enforcement officials indirectly acknowledged receipt of a ransom note after the New York Post reported that a letter claiming responsibility for Reso's abduction had been issued by a group called the Rainbow Warriors. The name Rainbow Warrior belongs to a Greenpeace ship destroyed by the French...
Coleman sympathizers find this evidence pretty thin; detractors think it is solid. "I'm not only convinced beyond a reasonable doubt," says Tom Scott, a Grundy attorney who acted as a special prosecutor during Coleman's trial. "I'm convinced beyond every imaginable and conceivable doubt of Coleman's guilt, based on that evidence alone...