Word: prosecutor
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...prosecutor, Harshbarger compiled an impeccable record. Along the way, he has led his profession in areas such as the prosecution of domestic violence and child abuse and in advocating counseling programs in addition to law enforcement to help reduce crime...
Tagliabue had earlier appointed a former Watergate prosecutor, Harvard law professor Philip Heymann, to investigate Olson's charges, which had been exacerbated by allegations that team owner Victor Kiam had called Olson a "classic bitch" after the incident. Kiam has denied using any such language, but he took out newspaper ads apologizing to the Herald reporter...
...current Supreme Court definition of obscenity requires that a "reasonable person," applying "contemporary community standards," would find that the work appeals to the prurient interest, depicts patently offensive sexual behavior and lacks serious artistic value. Last month Judge F. David Albanese, a former assistant county prosecutor, made the defense job more difficult by ruling that the jury need only see the seven pictures at issue. Defense attorneys had argued that the Supreme Court requirement to consider the work "as a whole" meant that the jury should see all of the pictures from the Mapplethorpe show, most of them floral still...
...Commissioner Paul Tagliabue said in a statement yesterday that the league has appointed Ames Professor of Law Philip B. Heymann, a former Watergate special prosecutor, to conduct an independent "fact-finding" inquiry into the alleged verbal abuse of Boston Herald sportswriter Lisa Olson in the Patriots locker room two weeks...
Boom! John Silber, defying polls and diverse voter groups insulted by his reckless rhetoric, trounces the party's mediocrity of choice to become the Democratic candidate for Governor in Massachusetts. Republicans nominate William Weld, a tough ex-prosecutor, rather than a gray legislator blessed by the G.O.P. convention...