Word: prosecutors
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...tactical triumph for the Government, Judge Earl Carroll barred all testimony on the religious and humanitarian motives behind the defendants' actions. Sanctuary lawyers nonetheless managed to slip several such references into testimony, and they plan to cite Carroll's ruling when they appeal the verdict. Prosecutor Reno, grandson of a Methodist preacher, faced some obstacles. He had the unenviable task of portraying as criminals a group of pious Good Samaritans (who held a prayer meeting after the jury announced its verdicts). One of the 15 Central Americans summoned to the stand by Reno, for instance, described a defendant...
James Kirkland Batson is black, and the Kentucky jurors who convicted him in 1984 of burglary and receipt of stolen goods were all white. The prosecutor had excluded four blacks from the jury with peremptory challenges, which have long been exercised without any explanation required. But last week in an important 7-to-2 decision, the Supreme Court reined in the practice. Justice Lewis Powell, writing for the majority, observed that intentional racial bias denies "the protection that a trial by jury is intended to secure"--a jury of one's peers. So the court changed the rules. Previously...
David Martin, head of the Office of Government Ethics, referred the case to the Justice Department on the same day that President Reagan said he thinks it is "ridiculous" to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Deaver...
Martin's letter to Attorney General Edwin Meese III activates the procedure for establishing a special prosecutor to look into Deaver's dealings...
...letter, the senators argue that there is sufficient evidence of possible conflict of interest to warrant a probe by a special prosecutor, said Peter F. Smith, Biden's press secretary...