Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next day that the Communist jurors had struck because, of 105 Vichy officials indicted, two alone (Darnand, Laval) had been given death and most of the others had been flatly, or virtually, acquitted. In the Chamber, Communist deputies demanded the High Court be reorganized; they demanded an Assembly-elected prosecutor (rather than an impartial state appointee), and wanted the jury's secret deliberations opened to the public...
...keep the story sewed up, Pou drove to Lexington, Miss., manned Prosecutor Barrett's telephone during his absence. When frantic newsmen telephoned for details from the West Coast, New York and other parts of the U.S., he purred that the prosecutor would be "back tomorrow" and would be glad to talk with them then. At week's end, the Morning Star was still holding a dollar for its tipster. He had not left his name...
...neat, somberly clad man who had opened the world's case against the Nazi war criminals was still pale and nervous as he prepared to close it last week. U.S. Chief Prosecutor Robert Houghwout Jackson knew that not merely the courtroom's obedient microphones but also the ears of history were listening to his words. Jackson tried to show that the trial's 'mad and melancholy" mass of evidence, which the U.S. prosecution had helped compile with masterly precision, was not, as the defense had claimed, merely a disconnected series of misfortunes. Said Jackson: "Each part...
...dabbled only briefly in politics. Once he served two terms as Democratic county prosecutor. Once he switched party lines, but was beaten as a Republican. It wasn't until he was appointed special prosecutor in 1943 for a graft-hunting grand jury that he attracted attention by convicting 41 small-time politicians and racketeers. Suddenly, three months ago, he was fired, ostensibly for excessive expenditures, but just as he was sighting in on bigger political game...
...control, had collaborated with the Nazis and received money from the Italians. "With Serbs it is not rare if every man carries out his own policy," said Mihailovich. But by the fourth day he was too tired. "You collaborated with the enemy. Is that right?" asked the prosecutor. Mihailovich hung his head and whispered, "Yes, that is right...