Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prisons and camps [for] political, ethical and religious beliefs." Free emigration and reunification of families, according to Orlov's group, were still being severely hampered, even though these rights were endorsed by the Helsinki accord. Introducing these reports as evidence at last week's trial, the state prosecutor maintained that they were "a fabrication from beginning...
That afternoon, prosecutors and defense attorneys had been meeting in the judge's chambers to discuss a minor procedural point. Prosecutor Robert Chatterton, in idle conversation with his courtroom adversaries, mentioned that a short while earlier he had been telephoned by an Anaheim police officer who asked for a definition of death in connection with another case. Chatterton casually added that he had just found out that doctors generally use a definition found in the state health and safety code...
...prosecutor protested vehemently, but the judge ruled that the jury would have to be brought back to court and informed of the discovery. Next day, visibly upset at having to change his instructions to the jurors, he told them the new definition of death as spelled out in the code: "The total and irreversible cessation of brain function." Since brain function had never been tested, the jury became confused...
...deputy was killed in a shootout with state police, reporters for the Indianapolis Star started investigating. When Gilman refused to tell them his special deputies' names, the Star began referring to them as his "secret police." In response, Gilman revoked all the special deputies' powers. Said County Prosecutor James Kelley: "It was immature and childish." Gilman eventually reconsidered and swore in 73 new deputies and reinstated 450 others. He also made public all of his deputies' names...
Heymann, who has been at the Law School since 1969, was an associate prosecutor and consultant to the Watergate prosecution team in the summers of 1973, 1974, and 1975. From 1961 to 1965 he worked at the Justice Department, and from 1965 to 1969, at the State Department...