Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consideration at all," said Kwon Young-gil, head of an illegal labor federation spearheading the strikes. The conflict continues to heat up. Twice in the past five days, protesting strikers have clashed with police, hurling chunks of cement and brandishing pipes as riot squads lobbed canisters of tear gas. Prosecutors hinted Wednesday that they would soon order police raids on a cathedral and other sites where union leaders are taking shelter. "If the workers do not stop their illegal strikes immediately, the government will act in a firm and resolute way to protect national security," senior prosecutor Choi Byong...
...trial as a pornographer? The good people of Mississippi--all right, the bad white people--gave Byron De La Beckwith every benefit of the doubt in his 1964 trials for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Two hung juries and a quarter- century later, a Jackson prosecutor (Alec Baldwin, who's good in a tough role) reopens the case, goaded by Evers' widow Myrlie (Whoopi Goldberg). He has a chance: this time the gabby, unrepentant Beckwith (James Woods) is facing a jury that is largely black...
...certain speed, and you know you'll hit the cars," she says during an interview at the South Central Regional Jail in Charleston, where she is serving a 5-to-18-year sentence for murder. "It's just something that a battered woman knows." The Boone County prosecutor's office insists--and a jury agreed--that the shooting was premeditated. But the West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence, spurred by Dr. Kimberly Martin, a pediatrician and shelter volunteer who once took in Kay and her children, is urging Governor Gaston Caperton to pardon Weekley. The Governor declined to speak with...
...even ahead of, those in other states, even some of the state's educated professionals, like a group of Boone County lawyers, still think domestic violence is a joking matter. "Oh, of course, the woman is always totally 100% innocent," notes one sarcastically. The lead prosecutor on the Weekley case, Samuel Hall, does not seem to understand why Kay did not simply leave Jackie for good. "When your complaining witness--the person that is being abused so terribly--doesn't show up in court [to press charges], where does the blame lie?" he asks...
...porch after he "busted in the door." His body was found several yards from there, at the edge of a small garden. Though there was no question who killed Jackie, Kay was not actually indicted until two years later. "It looked like a righteous shoot," explains assistant prosecutor Riffe. "If her story had panned out, she wouldn't have been prosecuted." The Weekley family kept the investigation alive, however, and when authorities turned up inconsistencies in Kay's story, she was charged...