Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make the language of their vagrancy laws more precise. The statutes are needed, say authorities, to help police on patrol reduce crime. When the court decided to review California's law, the International Association of Chiefs of Police joined in a brief supporting the statute. Says San Diego Prosecutor Daniel Kremer: "It seems to provide a reasonable balance between the individual's interests in privacy and society's interest in security...
...familiar and respected figure in Moscow's crowded old courthouses and in the vast corridors of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union's Russian Republic. The diminutive (5 ft.) defense lawyer packed more energy and determination into preparing her cases than many an unwary prosecutor, complacent in the knowledge that in the U.S.S.R. the law is stacked against the defense. That was the prosecutors' mistake. Kaminskaya obtained acquittals in more than 100 criminal cases...
...witness was an old woman who claimed to have heard Marina cry out as the three youngsters passed under her window: "Alik! Leave me alone! Sasha, let go!" The case against the boys had been prepared by an ambitious senior investigator from the procuracy, the Soviet equivalent of the prosecutor's office...
...said the Government's chief prosecutor Douglas Roller, "a day of reckoning." Hours before he was to report to a federal prison hospital in Springfield, Mo., Roy L. Williams agreed to resign from the presidency of the 1.9 million-member Teamsters Union in exchange for remaining free on bail while he appeals his case. He was convicted in December for conspiring with four other defendants to bribe Senator Howard W. Cannon of Nevada...
...developments suggest that Evren may be easing the pressure on his countrymen. Last week a military prosecutor reduced the charges against Publisher Nadi to "encouraging people to act against the law," and asked for a prison term of 2½ instead of six years. The military court trying Actress Yenersu referred the case to a civil tribunal, which is likely to be more lenient. Evren, it seems, is learning that respect for civil liberties is a cornerstone of democracy...