Word: prosecutor
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...whipped up the crowd at Gavin Cato's funeral early last week. "They don't want peace," he said of the Hasidic Jews. "They want quiet." Sharpton and the lawyer representing the Cato family counseled them not to cooperate with authorities in the investigation and demanded a special prosecutor be named...
...wave of public revulsion rolled across the country. Moscow party chief Yuri Prokofiev was hauled in for questioning by the state prosecutor. Demonstrators toppled statues of Lenin and other communist heroes in major cities, and some democratic reformers were worried that the rising spirit of vindictiveness might threaten the safety of party officials, especially in non-Russian republics...
What you see often depends on where you sit. If it is in a newsroom, you probably believe what democracy needs most is to protect the free flow of information. If it is on a judicial bench or in a prosecutor's office, you probably focus on respect for the rule of law. In truth, free press and fair trial are both important values. But they can collide, and increasingly journalists lose. News organizations find themselves ever more under court order to reveal confidential sources and sometimes to hand over notes en bloc -- often to a lawyer on a fishing...
...extreme case that captured headlines last week, a journalist's sources were stripped bare without the reporter even being notified of the search. In Hamilton County, Ohio, a prosecutor ordered a secret electronic snoop through the records of 35 million telephone calls made between March 1 and June 15 from 655,000 southwestern Ohio lines to find any potential corporate leakers who had called the home or office of Wall Street Journal Pittsburgh bureau reporter Alecia Swasy while she was researching stories that embarrassed Procter & Gamble, a major Cincinnati area employer...
...case the media circus is likely to continue. "This is the worst case of pretrial publicity that I've seen in the recent past," says Stephen Gillers, a professor at New York University law school and a legal ethics specialist. "In my view the prosecutor's tactic was strategically brilliant but improper. If victory is the only goal, she's measurably increased her chance of winning -- but she's abused her power by jeopardizing the chances of a fair trial." Perhaps. But given the Smith team's efforts to dig up dirt on the alleged victim's history, neither side...