Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...special prosecutor has found "no basis" for indicting Meese for alleged financial irregularities. Instead he refused Meese's request to throw out the charges of "moral turpitude" made against him, stressing that there still could be evidence of criminal conduct--just not enough right now to make an indictment...
...exchange for allowing the Flick firm generous tax writeoffs. Lambsdorff faces trial next January on criminal charges. In October, Rainer Barzel, president of the Bundestag and a senior member of Kohl's Christian Democratic Union, also stepped down. The weekly Der Spiegel published a Bonn prosecutor's report that the Flick company had paid more than $700,000 to a Frankfurt law firm, and that the firm had paid the same sum to Barzel. The prosecutor drew no connection between the two fees, but Der Spiegel concluded from the payments' timing that the Flick group had decided...
...been secret agents, officials have had to weigh two conflicting considerations: the importance of trying accused spies and the risk such trials pose to national security. In the view of intelligence agencies, courtroom disclosures can sometimes be as damaging as the original espionage. Says Joel Levine, a former federal prosecutor with spy-trial experience: "There's always a push-pull relationship between Government agencies, one desirous of prosecuting, one desirous of preserving intelligence...
...defense argue that it lends moral credence to criminal law. Perhaps the real problem is trying to find a formula that preserves the public's sanity. Put bluntly, acquittals such as Hinckley's insult our gut instincts and our primitive sense of justice. "Is Hinckley's crime," the trial prosecutor asked, "the crime of someone who does not know what he is doing and who is out of control, or is it the crime of someone who has an evil, twisted and perverted mind?" The difference between being sick and depressed, psychotic and merely "sad at Christmas," underscored the trial...
...first time Bok has been mentioned for a government position. In 1973, William Loeb, publisher of the feverishly conservative Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader recommended that Bok be appointed special Watergate prosecutor. "Bok is probably a Democrat, if not an independent," wrote Loeb, who often has used the front page of his morning paper for jibes against liberal Harvard types...