Word: prosecutor
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...feeling is that independent prosecutor Lawrence Walsh's legal juggernaut, which has cost $21 million and fielded as many as 60 lawyers and support staff, is running thin on defendants, new evidence and sympathy. A grand jury may explore further links to Reagan and George Bush, and Poindexter could be called to testify with a grant of immunity. People who know the admiral well are convinced that the effort will come to naught, that history will have to judge Reagan -- where the buck really stops -- on the fuzzy story before us. "John Poindexter was made a flag officer...
...peers were divided over whether such trials would constitute justice or revenge. Lord Shawcross, the chief British prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, argued that the bill would be "an indelible blot on every principle of British law and justice." But its supporters deemed enactment morally and legally essential. Citing recent outbreaks of anti-Semitism across Europe, Chief Rabbi Lord Jakobovits warned against sending "a wrong signal to a world seeking reassurance that civilized governments would never again allow such evil to triumph with impunity...
Ford happily accepted the challenge. With Pakula, he spent a week at the Wayne County (Detroit) prosecutor's office observing a murder case. He quizzed lawyers at lunch and took files back to his hotel at night. At one conference a question arose -- about the relative heights of shooter and victim -- that stumped the real lawyers. "Harrison was the only one who knew the answer," recalls chief assistant prosecutor George Ward, "because he had studied the pictures of the two persons. He really did his homework...
...that point he was not really a writer anymore but a full-time lawyer. The eight years he spent as a deputy U.S. prosecutor included Operation Greylord, a widespread crackdown and sting operation that nabbed corrupt judges and other scoundrels in the Illinois legal system. Turow successfully prosecuted, among others, a state attorney general and a circuit-court judge...
...answers. Turow, a lawyer who has kept jurors as well as readers on the edge of their chairs, has a preternatural knack for drawing out the suspense. The gimmick in Presumed Innocent was to follow the mystery through the eyes of the accused murderer, Rusty Sabich, a public prosecutor on trial for the murder of an amorous colleague. The intimate narrative device ensured reader sympathy, even though Sabich waited until the final pages to tell all he knew about the corpus delectable...