Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Innocent? When his denial went unnoticed, Rader took another step: he started perjury proceedings against Witness Hewitt. But while a deputy prosecutor cooled his heels outside the offices of the Canwell committee (named for ex-State Representative Albert F. Canwell), Hewitt was packed aboard a plane for New York. There, a Bronx court refused to extradite him. Though Rader continued to teach at the University of Washington, his reputation was blasted...
Last week, in a musty military courtroom in Yokohama, 27-year-old Satano rose to be sentenced by a five-man military tribunal. Just before the sentence was pronounced, the defendant's mother presented the embarrassed U.S. prosecutor with a bouquet of flowers. The court had decided that there were mitigating circumstances in Satano's case-mainly the fact that he had killed under orders. The sentence: five years' imprisonment. The defendant sighed happily with relief...
What had the prosecution tried to prove? The judge's summary of Prosecutor McGohey's case was a precis of the strategy of Red revolution...
Both the wording and the scope of this section appear so broad that a zealous prosecutor might, using the Act, jail a citizen who was naive, but decidedly loyal...
...Commented Tito's Old Communist Mosa Pijade, on the Rajk trial: "It is mostly reminiscent of the trials held in the Soviet Union in 1936 ... And now, when the then Public Prosecutor [Andrei Vishinsky] is Minister of Foreign Affairs, this type of trial is transferred to the international arena . . . an article of export...