Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confirmation hearings and emerged confident that he would quickly become Attorney General of the U.S. But last week a Justice Department investigation into his tangled finances was under way, the press was nipping at his heels, and Meese, first bewildered and then combative, was asking that a special prosecutor be appointed to investigate "the misrepresentations and baseless charges" against him. The probe could take months, delaying and possibly dooming his confirmation...
There was more at stake in the Washington drama than the personal fate of Meese, a 17-year intimate of Ronald Reagan's and until recently one of his most influential aides. Even if found by a special prosecutor to have committed no crime, Meese will still face congressional opposition for accepting financial help from men who were later appointed to federal positions. "There's absolutely no relationship whatsoever between any financial transaction I was involved in and anybody getting a job at any time," Meese insisted. Nonetheless, there was still an appearance of impropriety. Meese...
Massachusetts statutes define rape as "sexual intercourse by a person with another person who is compelled to submit by force and against his will or by threat of bodily harm." (Intercourse with someone under 16 is also considered rape.) Thus, a prosecutor must prove two things to obtain a guilty verdict: 1) that sexual intercourse occurred, and 2) that it took place against the victim's will...
...longest sentences ever handed down in the state, his mother became obsessed with revenge. Ruth wanted a hired gun to murder the court officers, but she made the mistake of talking to an undercover policeman playing the part of a Mafia hit man. "I would love to see [the prosecutor] just an addlepated vegetable," she told him. "I mean diapers and all the rest of it...Dead is great. But I do think he should suffer...
...simply a robbery (McLaughlin's attackers did take his watch). "There is absolutely nothing to indicate these three men knew who their victim was," says Assistant State's Attorney John Armellino. "We are limited by law as to what we can do for a witness," says Prosecutor Frank DeBoni, "and right now we do not think this man is in imminent danger...