Word: prosecutors
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...Boland amendment apply to the National Security Council? The White House contends that the NSC does not fit the definition of an "entity engaged in intelligence activities." A secret opinion by the President's Intelligence Oversight Board took this approach in 1985. Former Watergate Prosecutor Philip Lacovara agrees that if Congress intended the amendment to apply to "other than those persons connected with official intelligence agencies, it could and should have said so." But many experts agree with Tribe that NSC officials were clearly "acting as intelligence agents." Even Robert McFarlane testified that it was his "common-sense judgment" that...
...many ways, the law is a prosecutor's dream. Courts have interpreted its "defraud" section to apply to any conspiracy that interferes with the lawful functioning of Government, even if the plot did not result in any other provable crime. People who play widely varying roles in a conspiracy can be judged equally guilty, and only one defendant need be shown to have committed "any act to effect the object of the conspiracy." Thus the prosecutor does not have to focus on the narrow specifics of allegedly illegal acts; he can lay a long, complex story before the jury...
Court watchers have also detected a new virulence lately in some defense attacks on prosecutors. During the recent federal racketeering trial that ended in the acquittal of alleged Mob Boss John Gotti, defense lawyers launched savage personal attacks against Prosecutor Diane Giacalone; they even made wild charges that Giacalone had given her underwear to a prospective witness as an inducement to testify. Charges like that, says New York University Law Professor Stephen Gillers, "represent a breakdown in the last thread of civility in a contentious adversarial process...
...sadistic guard "Ivan the Terrible" at the Treblinka death camp, has entered its 13th week, with a verdict expected next fall. Last week Austrian President and former United Nations Secretary- General Kurt Waldheim, 68, recently barred from entering the U.S. on suspicion of abetting Nazi crimes, ordered a state prosecutor to file suit for slander / against Edgar Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress, for claiming that Waldheim had been "part and parcel" of the Nazi machine. Still awaiting final review of his case, although he was given the death penalty in absentia, is Karl Linnas, 67, the first naturalized...
...court-martial consists of a judge, who must be a qualified lawyer, plus no fewer than five jurors -- normally all officers, unless an enlisted defendant requests otherwise. The prosecutor and defense counsel must also be lawyers. But critics say the entire proceeding is conducted in the shadow of command influence. "All the paper guarantees pale compared to the weight of lots of brass," says Washington Attorney Gene Fidell, a specialist in military cases. Stories abound of unit commanders pressuring trial authorities to produce guilty verdicts and heavy sentences. In fact, the superior officer convening an Article 32 proceeding can order...