Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unusual legal maneuver, the state is trying the six defendants in two groups, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Reason: pretrial statements made by some of the defendants could not legally be used as evidence against them if all were tried together. Prosecutors have also substantially revised original reports that numerous bar patrons witnessed and even encouraged the rape with whoops and cheers. They say that aside from the six defendants and the victim, only three people were in the bar, and that the bartender and a customer sought to call the police, but were prevented from...
...believe this man deserves to be punished and deserves to be punished very severely." Reilly told the judge. The prosecutor said that Vaughn's marital troubles and failing at Harvard were not adequate provocation for the killing...
...contest between prosecutors in California and neighboring Nevada is grim, but the two states have a common goal: they want to make certain that Gerald Gallego will die. A jury in California's Sacramento County last May convicted Gallego, 37, a former truck driver, of kidnaping a college couple, raping the woman and then killing both students. Gallego, whose father Gerald was executed in Mississippi in 1955 after a murder conviction, was sentenced to die. Says James Morris, the chief prosecutor: "He's a chip off the old block...
California prosecutors agree. In the past three years the California Supreme Court has ordered retrials in 18 of the 20 appeals of death sentences that it has received. Says Prosecutor Morris: "If anyone ever deserved to be executed, it's Gallego...
Last August, Iran's prosecutor-general, Hojatoleslam Hossein Musavi Tabrizi, ordered the abolition of all Baha'i organizations. The community obediently shut down its 400 local meetinghouses and dissolved the national and local governing councils. In the months since Tabrizi's declaration, a farmer was lynched, a young woman was slain by a mob just after she gave birth, and 190 more Baha'is were arrested. Says Mehri Mavaddat, an Iranian refugee lawyer now living in Toronto whose husband was executed in 1981: "The killings are very casual. That's what makes them so horrible...