Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jury with no knowledge of Hussain's earlier conviction, Meyer said. "There's a tendency for the jury to say to themselves. "He was guilty before he must be guilty now and that's just what we can't allow." Assistant District Attorney William Kettlewell '73, the trial's prosecutor, said he did not think the judge's move would affect the prosecution's case...
...prosecutor is rebuked for pursuing a CIA-connected thief...
...security police and one of the Central Intelligence Agency's most valuable sources in Mexico and Central America. For months, the Justice Department held up the indictment. When a San Diego Union reporter learned of the Justice Department's stalling and asked Kennedy for confirmation, the prosecutor readily provided it. As he told the newspaper: "I'm concerned about the victims-car owners or the insurance companies that have paid off claims." Last Monday Kennedy spent a day explaining his indiscretion to angry superiors in Washington; he is now under heavy pressure to resign...
Kennedy, 51, had been an efficient and unflamboyant San Diego County prosecutor for 23 years before taking the federal job. He is intensely devout, both as a Roman Catholic and a conservative Republican. Says one colleague: "He may have felt his credibility was on the line with this car-theft case, and he couldn't live with the idea that there was a crook out there who wasn't being caught." To Kennedy, explains another coworker, "black is black, white is white, and good should triumph over evil...
...interestingly, Cox has an answer for those who would call Ely's advocacy of judicial self-restraint a cover for conservatism. The former Watergate special prosecutor notes that Ely's idol is Earl Warren--to whom Democracy and Distrust is dedicated and that in lionizing the Warren Court. Ely is "defending the most activist Court we ever...