Word: prosecutor
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Early on there were many who were considered favorites, including Archibald Cox '34, a law school professor and later the Watergate special prosecutor, McGeorge Bundy, a top member of the Kennedy-Johnson brain-trust and former dean of the faculty, Robert D. Cross '47, dean of Swarthmore College, Dr. John D. Knowles, director of Mass. General Hospital, Edward M. Purcell, University professor and Nobel laureate and Derek C. Bok, then dean of Harvard Law School...
...Salinas de Gortari, whose Education Minister and one of whose Attorneys General were implicated, but never charged, in the scandal surrounding the kidnapping, torture and murder of U.S. DEA special agent Kiki Camarena in 1985. Other Mexican government officials accused of complicity with drug organizations include a former special prosecutor against drugs, two former police commanders, a former Interior Minister, a former Defense Minister, the son of the former Governor of the state of Jalisco and the brother-in-law of former President Luis Echeverria...
...Simpson prosecution was taken by surprise while questioning Criminalist Collin Yamauchi when he blurted out on the witness stand that heinitially believed that O.J. Simpson had "an airtight alibi."In the ensuing commotion, the jury was hustled out of the courtroom while prosecutors frantically attempted damage control. WhenSimpson attorney Johnnie Cochran, addressing Judge Ito, called Prosecutor Marcia Clark "hysterical,"Clark shot back that his "sexist" remark was unacceptable. Simpson chuckled, watching this exchange. Clark insisted that Yamauchi's comment was not based on any knowledge of O.J.'s initial statement to the police, and should be disregarded...
There social worker Kee MacFarlane (Lolita Davidovich) gets the kids to claim that they were repeatedly raped, sodomized and forced to witness the slaughter of rabbits and other animals. Like Lael Rubin (Mercedes Ruehl), the lead prosecutor in the McMartin case, MacFarlane is portrayed as a dangerously misguided zealot. During her videotaped interviews (portions of which are excerpted verbatim from the transcripts), children initially deny abuse until MacFarlane goads them with such remarks as "Are you gonna be stupid, or are you gonna be smart and help us out here...
...about the judicial system and about child witnesses." Although apsac executive director Theresa Reid has not seen the film, she has read the script and cites as her main concern "the implication that fantastic elements in a child's account of abuse are evidence that the account is false." Prosecutor Rubin declined an invitation from Time to see a screening of the movie and comment...