Word: prosecutor
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...population is black, though blacks constitute 50% of death-row inmates -- but the evidence is equivocal. "The trouble with the death penalty is that it's like a lottery," says law professor Steven Goldstein of Florida State University. "There are so many discretionary stages: whether the prosecutor decides to seek the death penalty, whether the jury recommends it, whether a judge gives...
...Some of these attorneys meet their clients for the first time on the day of arraignment. More than half the lawyers are handling a capital case for the first time. Some have drinking problems; others have | decided biases. One Louisiana defendant learned that his lawyer was living with the prosecutor. A Florida man discovered that his public defender was a deputy sheriff. In Georgia, Eddie Lee Ross was defended by a white attorney who referred to Ross as a "nigger" and had been the Imperial Wizard of the local Ku Klux Klan for 50 years. Ross now awaits the electric...
...government, and promised ongoing training to keep them on their toes. Among her most significant appointments: former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, a member of the House Judiciary Committee that voted for the impeachment of Richard Nixon, as her special adviser on ethics, and John Hannah Jr., a distinguished former federal prosecutor, as secretary of state. Richards is also pushing for sweeping reforms to limit campaign contributions and require full disclosure of lobbyists' spending. Texas badly needs the reforms. Political payoffs are so ingrained that two years ago an East Texas chicken farmer seeking changes in a workers- compensation law brazenly doled...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla--A prosecutor said yesterday he may let a grand jury decide whether to charge William Kennedy Smith in an alleged rape on his family's Palm Beach, Fla., estate...
Police have said it may be weeks before they're ready to present their investigation to the prosecutor...