Word: prosecutor
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...Viewers also learn to appreciate that in courtroom testimony, demeanor and delivery are crucial. Prosecutor Moira Lasch must still be regretting that she called Anne Mercer to the stand. On the night of the alleged incident, Mercer went with Smith's accuser to Au Bar, the tony Palm Beach hangout where they met Smith in the company of his uncle, Senator Edward Kennedy, and Kennedy's son Patrick. Lasch got what she wanted from Mercer: testimony that the alleged victim yelled "rape" early on. The jury may remember her fashion-mag appearance and soulless manner...
...unbelievably boring," says Evelyn Kusserow, a reporter for Germany's Stern magazine, as she sits in front of a TV in the offices of the Palm Beach Review watching public prosecutor Moira Lasch's performance. Minutes later, a camera crew from the German weekly Der Spiegel wanders in, ostensibly to film a roomful of American journalists watching the televised trial. Little do they know that one of the people they are filming is a fellow countrywoman. Thus the Germans from Der Spiegel have flown thousands of miles to cover the coverage of the trial, and end up with footage...
...University of Illinois, served in the Army and then joined IBM as a sales representative. Though the | computer company named him Outstanding Salesman of 1967, Skinner attended law school at night and gave up his $50,000-a-year corporate job to be a $9,000-a- year prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office. He rose to U.S. Attorney, earning the nickname "Sam the Hammer" for his aggressive prosecution of corrupt officials in the state Democratic machine...
...Last month the Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out the sentence of a murderer who killed a 70-year-old woman with an ax, on the ground that the prosecutor had unlawfully cited biblical law to the jury in his summation urging the death penalty...
While officials were sorting through Rogers' records, a federal prosecutor met last week with Adham in Cairo in what might be a first step toward a possible deal with the Justice Department. Adham's attorney, Washington lawyer Plato Cacheris, denied that a plea bargain was in the works and said his client has documents to prove his innocence. "I'm not trying to plead," said Cacheris...