Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Mecham no longer faces criminal charges, few expect a quick revival of his tattered political career. His acquittal in no way affects his earlier impeachment, which was based on two unrelated charges: misusing state funds and trying to thwart an investigation of a death threat. Said Prosecutor Barnett Lotstein, explaining the case's outcome: "A lot of people in this community feel that he has suffered enough...
...veteran and former policeman who rated high marks in a previous job as a hospital security chief, McKinnon, 39, was denounced as a "pathological liar" by Sharpton. McKinnon was quickly subpoenaed to testify before the special grand jury investigating the case in Poughkeepsie. Attorney General Robert Abrams, special prosecutor in the case, declared that "if Mr. McKinnon is right, then Attorneys Mason and Maddox and the Rev. Sharpton have been consciously perpetrating a hoax...
Governor Cuomo has again appointed a special prosecutor to handle the case, this time State Attorney General Robert Abrams. But Sharpton, Mason and Maddox are not satisfied with Abrams; they refuse to cooperate with authorities until another prosecutor is appointed...
...done to ensure that the victims of violent racial crimes--both white and Black--are able to seek justice in our system. Sharpton, Mason and Maddox--when they are not busy rambling on about Cuomo's ties to the mob--have called for the creation of a permanent special prosecutor to handle racial crimes...
...appointment of a well-respected special prosecutor to handle violent racial criminal cases is an important step to alleviate the problem of conflict between the races...