Word: prosecutors
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...their summations, the attorneys in the Von Bulow case seemed to have exchanged roles. Defense Counsel Thomas Puccio once again seemed to be the aggressive prosecutor of his Abscam days, assertively addressing the facts of the case, while Prosecutor Marc DeSisto offered a histrionic and impassioned plea, long on emotion, short on detail...
...Agca's verbal pyrotechnics were jarring, other courtroom developments hinted of more drama to come. Prosecutor Antonio Marini persuaded the court to seek the questioning of four suspected Turkish terrorists, all under detention elsewhere in Western Europe, in connection with the alleged assassination conspiracy. Defense lawyers, meanwhile, tried to secure diplomatic immunity for two of the three accused Bulgarians. Most important, testimony by a Turkish defendant brought the first public confirmation of Agca's claim that he was only a cog in a wider conspiracy...
...presiding judge, Severino Santiapichi, who is also conducting the current trial, suggested that "hidden minds" had directed the Turk. Italian authorities reopened the case that autumn. The investigation heated up after Agca, in a series of sometimes contradictory jailhouse revelations, described a "Bulgarian connection." Two years later, an Italian prosecutor hinted that the Soviet Union might have been involved in a plot against the Pope, using Bulgarian agents. By October 1984, Ilario Martella, the investigating magistrate, had compiled sufficient evidence of a conspiracy to order the trial of the eight alleged co- conspirators being tried: three Turks and one Bulgarian...
...Union, where a national committee has been formed to issue statements in defense of Sergei Antonov, the former representative in Rome of Bulgaria's Balkan Airlines and the only Bulgarian defendant present in the courtroom, the press leaped on Agca's outbursts as evidence that his story was worthless. Prosecutor Marini disagreed. "When (Agca) begins to talk about facts," he said, "he is extremely reliable." Still, Marini was relieved when Bagci calmly, albeit reluctantly, held up under intense questioning...
...three, Mehmet Sener, was convicted last week in Switzerland on heroin-smuggling charges. The court is also seeking to question a Turk identified as Aslam Samet. He was arrested by Dutch police during a papal visit May 14 for possessing a loaded Browning pistol that a Dutch prosecutor says came from the same "small lot of 21 weapons" as Agca's weapon. The revelation heightened a courtroom drama that the Italian press has billed as "the trial of the century...