Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...twelve Brazilians were caught in the act of carrying cocaine to the U.S. Shipments of illegally imported processing chemicals have also been intercepted with increasing frequency. Most of all, coke preprocessing plants have begun sprouting up in the Brazilian backcountry. By now, says Dr. Juarez Tavares, the federal criminal prosecutor in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil has become "the distribution center for cocaine leaving South America...
...miles from Minneapolis-St. Paul, would seem to be a model American community. But over the past year and a half, the town's idyllic image has been eroded by allegations of widespread sexual abuse of children. In all, 24 adults were charged by the local prosecutor with molesting 37 youngsters. Some of the defendants were couples accused of engaging in sexual activities with their own children. Local authorities took 25 children from their parents, placing them in foster homes outside Jordan...
Just as the case of a second couple was going to trial last October, Prosecutor Morris, who had been alternately praised for her persistence and berated as overzealous, suddenly announced that the county was dropping all charges against the remaining 19 defendants. The reason: to spare the children further trauma and safeguard the investigation of the alleged homicides committed by members of the sex ring...
Much of the blame for the clumsy local investigation has been attributed to Morris and her office. The prosecutor apparently played a major role in conducting intensive, prolonged, exhausting interviews with the children. In one case, authorities talked to a nine-year-old girl 20 times, yet there were only four written reports on her sessions. According to the Humphrey report, children were sometimes interviewed together and had a great deal of contact with one another, which could have resulted in the "cross-germination" of allegations. Under questioning from Humphrey's task force, many of the children retracted their stories...
Thirty minutes after the meeting began, policemen burst into the room. Walesa and Activist Jerzy Trzcinski were allowed to go home; Lis, Michnik and Frasyniuk were put under arrest by the Gdansk prosecutor's office. In all, seven men were charged with attending an illegal meeting. On Saturday, Walesa was summoned to the same prosecutor's office for questioning. After 90 minutes he emerged to say that he had refused to respond to the grilling. Walesa was warned that he too would face charges if he continued to back the proposed strike action. His defiant reply: "Our most important task...