Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Faced with what was probably to be an unsympathetic audience, it may not have been an advantage to Terry White, the soft-spoken, studious-looking lead prosecutor, that he was black. (Alan S. Yochelson, his co-prosecutor, was white.) Though the prosecutors objected strongly when it was first suggested that the trial be moved to Simi Valley, the pair acknowledged that they were powerless to reverse the judge's decision once it had been made. But they could take comfort from the fact that juries in Ventura County had decided against the police in three of the five police-brutality...
With race the ever present issue in the case -- King has claimed that he was taunted throughout the beating with racial slurs -- the prosecution did little to bring home its significance to the jury. Prosecutor White did tell the court that just 20 minutes before the King beating, Officer Powell had sent a computer message to another patrol car saying an incident that evening involving a domestic dispute at the home of a black family was "right out of Gorillas in the Mist." That's "a racial statement," White pointed out. "You have to wonder what was his motive when...
...This time the heroine is a Collier herself, and she carries a torch for a moody chap named Hobby Fox. She thinks of him as a burnt-out case -- "courtly and windblown and stoic" -- but in his 36 years he has been a major-league ballplayer, a New Orleans prosecutor and the foreign editor of an important New York City newspaper. What story there is gradually reveals the couple's past affair and tells why a heartless decision made five years earlier blights any chance for happiness...
...DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS JUST CAN'T SEEM TO shake their check-bouncing woes. Boxed into a political corner, most of them joined their Republican colleagues last week in voting to turn over to a special prosecutor the records for all House bank accounts for a 39-month period ending last October. But they did it through gritted teeth...
...federal prosecutor called it "the mother of all kiting schemes." No exaggeration. New York car dealer John McNamara allegedly borrowed $1.75 billion last year alone from G.M.A.C., General Motors' financing subsidiary. The money, he said, went to buy and refurbish cars to be shipped overseas. But the vehicles didn't exist. McNamara allegedly pocketed the money, defrauding GM of $436 million before auditors finally caught...