Word: prosecutors
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After the massacre of more than 700 civilians at two refugee camps in Beirut last September, both Israel and Lebanon established commissions to investigate the incident. Last week, four months after publication of the Israeli group's report, portions of Lebanese Military Prosecutor Assaad Germanos' findings were leaked to the press. His account placed full legal responsibility for the carnage with the Israeli troops who controlled both camps. It went on to claim that there was no proof that the Phalangist-dominated Lebanese Forces had advance knowledge of the assault and that all prosecutions should therefore be postponed...
...gritty N.Y.P.D. interrogation room, the camera pans over the usual cast (a detective, a stenographer, a prosecutor) before zooming in on the suspect. Clifford Brighton, 22, with pockmarks and a bruised eye, describes how he held up a supermarket earlier that day using a hostage: "I grabbed the cop and stuck a gun in him and took him into the store...
...statement in January 1981 that the bureau had "no information which would reflect unfavorably upon Mr. Donovan in any manner." This clean bill persuaded the Labor Committee to recommend that Donovan be confirmed. The full Senate approved Donovan in February 1981, but inquiries continued. When a special prosecutor concluded last year that there was "insufficient credible evidence" to indict Donovan, the President proclaimed the case "closed." But evidence that the FBI had withheld information linking Donovan's old firm, Schiavone Construction Co., to organized crime prompted Labor Committee Members Orrin Hatch and Edward Kennedy last July to order...
...women do." Klieman looked in on Manhattan's criminal courts and found that "the law is in many ways a lot of theater." After graduation from Boston University Law School and a clerkship with a federal judge, she went to work as a Massachusetts prosecutor. In 1980, in the midst of the U.S. hostage crisis, professional recognition was assured by her convictions of three youths who had killed a local Iranian college student...
When she showed up for work as a Chicago prosecutor in 1972, Patricia Bobb fought off a stint in juvenile court, the usual first slot for a woman. Bobb, fresh out of Notre Dame Law School, won assignment to criminal court. She kept on winning: a streak of 22 victories in cases that went to the jury. In 1977 Bobb drew "what we call a heater - a hot first-degree murder that produced a two-month trial and lots of publicity." Lapsing into the trial lawyer's habit of assessing courtroom opportunity, she recalls, "It had every thing, blood...