Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...involved in these incidents--via the long-dormant Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR)--is abhorrent because the CRR is used only to prosecute political activists. Unfortunately, the law school's handling of the same two incidents seems even more outrageous. The Law School Ad Board has acted as prosecutor, judge and jury for its students; it has selectively prosecuted those it believes to be political activists; it has unfairly penalized a student's future job prospects instead of the student himself; and it has unfairly forced another student to incriminate herself. Comparisons between the two bodies once made...
Roman police last week also arrested two other Arabs who arrived at the ( capital's Leonardo da Vinci Airport bearing suitcases, each carrying 7.7 lbs. of plastic explosive. The duo had Moroccan passports similar to those carried by the captured Achille Lauro hijackers. Said Rome Prosecutor Rosario Priore: "We suspect that all these Moroccan passports may be linked. Possibly they come from a single stock made available for terrorist actions...
...evidence a "painful experience," as Juror Karen Dyer put it. In the end, the panel concluded that Hedgecock had 1) conspired to allow some $360,000 in illicit funds to be channeled into his 1983 campaign, and 2) lied over and over to cover up the scheme. The prosecutor, Deputy District Attorney Charles Wickersham, said that what clinched the verdict was a check for $3,000 made out to Hedgecock by one of three co-defendants, as well as proof that a second co-defendant had given him $130,000 to remodel his home...
...February, Giuliani's New York office produced eight indictments against the city's most powerful Mafia bosses and their lieutenants. Last week the first two of those cases opened with the selection of anonymous juries in Manhattan's federal district court. It is a major test for an ambitious prosecutor: if Giuliani can win enough convictions in these and other trials scheduled to begin during the next six months, he not only would deal a stunning blow to organized crime in America but also would deal himself a pretty fair hand for a high-stakes political career...
...against organized crime, giving detailed press conferences and turning up on national television to trumpet his indictments. Critics have accused him of trying and convicting defendants before they have even been arraigned. Some detractors think that Giuliani is preparing a political career in the tradition of onetime New York Prosecutor Thomas Dewey, who rose to fame in New York in the 1930s by winning convictions against such famous criminals as Louis Lepke and Lucky Luciano. Giuliani insists that his goal is simply to defeat the mob. Indeed, only the defendants' attorneys have suggested that the indictments are not legitimate...