Word: prosecutor
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...beginning, during the pretrial proceedings, Timothy McVeigh would try to greet Beth Wilkinson with a smile and a hello, a tactic he used with other people in court. Each time, however, she would shoot back a cold glare. The federal prosecutor would allow no attempts at cordiality to mitigate her mission: to convict McVeigh and get him sentenced to death. Last week, after his defense had presented parental pleas for mercy, Wilkinson's words thundered through the courtroom, demanding the life of the convicted Oklahoma City bomber. "All of us can feel compassion for his parents, but they...
Some advice for Flinn: go on the lecture circuit and drop some bombs there. Then write a book! Your financial security will be assured. It worked for losing prosecutor Marcia Clark; it will work for a role model like you. REMO P. CRUZ Glendale, Calif...
...DENVER: TIME's Patrick Cole reports from Denver that jurors started crying even before the first witness took the stand in Timothy McVeigh's sentencing hearing as Prosecutor Patrick Ryan asked them to remember all 168 people that McVeigh's bomb killed. "It would be easy for you as a jury to think of this as one mass murder. Don't. There are 168 people, all unique, all individual . . . All had families, all had friends, and they're different." Two of the jurors began to cry once more as Sonya Diane Leonard, who lost her husband, told them: "I feel...
WASHINGTON: Aggressively taking on Whitewater investigator Kenneth Starr, President and Mrs. Clinton's private attorney accused the special prosecutor of violating grand jury secrecy rules for the purpose of launching a smear campaign against the First Lady. Responding to a New York Times Magazine article in which unnamed Whitewater prosecutors commented on the investigation, Kendall wrote to Starr that the prosecutor's office engaged in a public relations attack inconsistent with its legal responsibilities. "The comments of you and persons in your office directly and indirectly quoted in the magazine article flout all these obligations," he said. "Grand jury secrecy...
...first guilty pleas last week by Democratic fund raisers NORA and GENE LUM took some heat off Justice Department lawyers (hey, they're doing something; no need for an independent prosecutor) but raised the heat on a hitherto minor player in the fund-raising scandal: MICHAEL BROWN, son of the late Commerce Secretary. The Lums admitted conspiring to funnel about $50,000 in contributions through "straw donors" to SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY and an Oklahoma House candidate in 1994 and 1995, and they agreed to cooperate with investigators, who have recently been focusing on Brown, a donor to Kennedy around...