Word: prosecutor
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Next Pakula had to give faces -- famous faces -- to Scott Turow's page people. Bonnie Bedelia plays Rusty Sabich's wife, Raul Julia his defense counsel, Brian Dennehy the prosecutor, Paul Winfield the judge, Greta Scacchi the luckless love. And as the accused, Pakula selected Harrison Ford, segueing handsomely from Star Wars and Indiana Jones hunkdom to acclaimed actor. The casting pleased Turow. "Ever since the book came out, people have been saying that I'm Rusty," he told Ford when they met. "I'm glad you're playing him. Now people will identify the character with...
During yesterday's session, defense attorney Willie Davis and prosecutor George Fisher presented their closing arguments and Judge Paul Chernoff informed the jury of the legal standards involved in the case...
...Society's Clarence Manion, and Frank Pope, whose family was so close to William Jenner that he grew up calling him Uncle Bill. In the budget agency was Judy Palmer, who was the personal assistant to Edgar Whitcomb's wife during Whitcomb's 1968 campaign for Governor; in the prosecutor's office was Vicki Ursalkis. All these people were students at the night school, only a few blocks from the statehouse, but they saw more of each other during their daytime tasks, in the balconies ringing the rotunda, than in the school, even though Quayle, Pope, Ursalkis and Palmer made...
...gone to seek a meeting with Gorbachev, a sign that the ongoing Soviet pressure campaign was bearing fruit. The Soviet leader refused to see the delegation but sent Aleksandr Yakovlev, a close ally and member of his presidential council. By Thursday, however, Soviet troops had moved into the chief prosecutor's office in the Lithuanian capital. They expelled staff members loyal to the former prosecutor, who was dismissed by Moscow two weeks ago and replaced by a successor chosen to enforce Soviet law in the rebellious republic...
...ironic twist, it was the reluctant testimonies of Reagan and former National Security Council aide Oliver North, both of whom had every reason to want Poindexter acquitted, that proved devastating to the defense. Prosecutor Dan Webb, whose snapping-terrier style may have discouraged Poindexter from taking the stand, boldly ridiculed Reagan's videotaped deposition. In his closing argument, Webb contended that Reagan "didn't have the foggiest idea" whether Poindexter had broken laws. Webb charged that the ex-President was so "biased" that he winked at Poindexter while testifying, as if to say, "John, did that answer help you?" Indirectly...