Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blacks took as insults began on Jan. 9 of last year when Florida State Highway Patrolman Willie T. Jones, 37, who is white, was accused of taking an eleven-year-old black girl into his patrol car and molesting her. He did not contest the charge and the county prosecutor's office acquiesced in a deal whereby Jones would receive psychiatric help rather than go to jail...
...prosecutor turned more aggressive, however, when Johnny Jones, the black superintendent of Dade County schools, was accused of attempting to use some $9,000 in school funds to buy goldplated plumbing fixtures for a vacation house he was building. A popular educator widely admired by both blacks and Miami's top white officials, Jones had tried to cover up the attempted misuse of funds. Reno quickly called a rare Saturday session of a grand jury to get him indicted; the school board called an equally unusual Sunday session to suspend him from his job. Jones was quickly convicted...
...jockeys' previous statements before federal grand juries were often contradictory. Amy, in fact, admitted to lying under oath before the grand jury in hopes of sparing his fellow riders. Said Amy: "I thought I could alleviate the pressure on me and my friends." When asked by the prosecutor whom he was hoping to protect, Amy replied: "Cordero and Velasquez...
Right now, some of those differences are considerable. The House bill is preferred by civil libertarians to the Senate version, which John Shattuck, legislative director of the American Civil Liberties Union, derides as "a prosecutor's dream." Three main areas of conflict...
...didn't argue. From experience as a prosecutor I knew that the number of people involved in trying to effect a request like that could only make matters worse. But an order from John Mitchell to pass along a message was not to be disobeyed. I found Kleindienst at the Burning Tree golf course, seated at a table in the middle of the dining room, lunching with others. I caught his eye and gestured to him. He caught my signal and made his way to me. I told him that I had a personal message from John Mitchell...