Word: prosecutors
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...been a member of Reagan's inner circle of supporters, would not be acceptable to the right wing of the party. They were afraid that he might not prove a team player, recalling that, as Deputy Attorney General under President Nixon, he resigned rather than fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in the famed Saturday Night Massacre of October 1973. Two weeks ago, Presidential Adviser Craig Fuller telephoned Interior Department Head James Watt to get a conservative reading. Watt was enthusiastic about Ruckelshaus and said that in private conversations he had found him sympathetic to the Administration...
...civil rights group also says the men were under police surveillance for weeks before the crime spree began, and that the trial which ended in a life sentence was highlighted by police perjury and coaching of witnesses by the prosecutor. Public contribution to a special fund will help defray the cost of defending the men (Williams is about to be tried), and assist in the fight to overturn Geter's sentence...
...idea frightens me. Police would be more careless," says Georgetown Law Professor William Greenhalgh, a former prosecutor; on behalf of the American Bar Association, he wrote a Gates brief supporting the existing rule. Notes University of Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar: "What are we asking here? Whether a police officer reasonably acted unreasonably? If they lower the standard any more, they'll reduce the rule to the vanishing point...
...after he was inaugurated last September, Lebanese President Amin Gemayel ordered Assad Germanos, chief prosecutor of the country's military tribunal, to conduct an investigation of the Beirut massacre and to report his findings directly to him. Gemayel told Germanos, "We want all the truth, not 50% or anything less than all the truth. Our nation's honor is at stake, so you must do everything, even the impossible...
...case against Hastings never was. Borders refused to cooperate, and investigators could not trace any money all the way to Hastings. Conceded Prosecutor Robert Richter in his opening argument to the jury: "We will not put a big number four up in front of you. We'll put two plus two." The Government contended that Hastings had gone to Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hilton Hotel for dinner on Sept. 16, 1981, as Borders had said he would, to signal his involvement in the scheme. Prosecutors played a tape of a phone call Hastings made to Borders 19 days...