Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Williams' attorney pleaded with Judge Pratt to give the Senator a suspended sentence, arguing that his career was ruined. Prosecutor Thomas Puccio countered that Williams had "put his office up for sale" and "boldly lied to avoid conviction...
...scientific evidence has become so common, says Washington University Law Professor Edward Imwinkelried, that a prosecutor who has none to offer sometimes feels obliged to explain why. Such testimony is particularly critical in rape cases for corroboration and in homicides, where there may be no eyewitnesses. One danger, though: it can become so complicated that the jury gets lost. That is often the only hope for defense attorneys, who can rarely afford to hire opposing experts. In cross-examination and final arguments, they hammer away at the witness's credentials or the inability to pin the crime...
...boundaries," Watergate again approached one of its climaxes. Much of Nixon's attention during the week of the airlift was absorbed with the court of appeals decision on the Watergate tapes. On Oct. 17 Attorney General Elliot Richardson transmitted a White House proposal to Archibald Cox, the Watergate special prosecutor, that Nixon would allow John Stennis, a prestigious Senator, to verify the accuracy of proposed White House summaries of the disputed tapes. By coincidence I had a lunch scheduled that day with Richardson. He told me he had the uneasy feeling that the White House was trying to jockey...
...felt we were in a very strong negotiating position. Israel seemed poised to achieve a decisive victory, but my confidence was suddenly shaken by a message from Nixon. We, on our way to Moscow, were not to know what a fateful day Oct. 20 was for the presidency: Special Prosecutor Cox refused to accept summaries of the Nixon tapes reviewed by Senator Stennis; he wanted the tapes themselves; he rejected Nixon's order that he renounce the right to subpoena further documents. Nixon forced a showdown by sacking Cox, which led to the resignation of Attorney General Elliot Richardson...
...Gdansk merchant marine college where she was a student. A Katowice court gave jail terms of three to four years to four alleged organizers of a strike at the Wujek coal mine, where at least seven civilians were killed in clashes with police on Dec. 16. The provincial prosecutor in Gdansk said that Solidarity's second-ranking leader, Miroslaw Krupinski, would be tried for trying to organize a national strike committee from the Lenin Shipyard after military rule was imposed...