Word: prosecutors
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...notoriously humorless Sartzetakis, 58, has denied any connection with the abortive action by the public prosecutor's office. Before taking up his post in 1985, Sartzetakis was a respected prosecutor and judge who was imprisoned and tortured under the dictatorial Greek junta of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Part of his career was dramatized in the 1968 movie Z. But the President has often been lampooned for his intolerance of press criticism and his regal life-style. After the bust, the government of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou issued a statement assuring citizens that it respected freedom of expression...
Many believe Walsh will begin handing up indictments as early as next month. But some prosecutors question whether the independent counsel can win convictions, particularly after the outpouring of sympathy for North. Observes former Watergate Prosecutor James Neal: In Watergate, "serious criminal statutes were involved. Officials were obstructing an FBI investigation, there was a 'smoking-gun tape,' the White House was paying burglars to keep quiet. Here, everything is murky." Attorney Arthur Christy, a former special prosecutor who investigated charges against Jimmy Carter's aide Hamilton Jordan, also doubts that convictions can be achieved. Says he: "A good prosecutor might...
...fate of North and the others rests with the contents of sealed envelopes of evidence that Walsh filed with the U.S. district court in Washington before the major witnesses began their testimony to Congress. When that evidence is presented, public reaction will not count for much. As former Watergate Prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste puts it, "The criminal law is not a beauty contest...
...case rests principally on an irresistible plot. Rusty Sabich, 39, is the chief deputy prosecutor of Kindle County, somewhere in the Middle West. Raymond Horgan, his boss and mentor for the past twelve years, faces a re- election battle undermined by a stroke of bad news. A little less than three weeks before the voting, Carolyn Polhemus, a member of Horgan's staff and Rusty's colleague, has been found murdered in gruesome, suggestive circumstances: nude, bound, apparently raped. Horgan's political opponents create a furor, and the local papers and TV stations chime in: if brutal crime can reach...
...sticks to the facts, the gritty routine of trying to solve a puzzle by finding the pieces and hoping they fit. Rusty, who is the narrator as well as the central character, has been at his job long enough to sound persuasively disillusioned. He describes working conditions in the prosecutor's offices: "In the summer we labor in jungle humidity, with the old window units rattling over the constant clamor of the telephones. In the winter the radiators spit and clank while the hint of darkness never seems to leave the daylight. Justice in the Middle West...