Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week all 18 building inspectors were suspended and two promptly retired; the city's building-codes administrator resigned, and the public works director was put on "involuntary leave." And the fuss may not be over: the county prosecutor is considering bringing criminal charges...
...received a highly favorable evaluation. But the rest of the message was not so encouraging. If Vladimov did not write a letter of apology for his "antistate" writings by Jan. 20, listing all the Western diplomats and journalists he has met, his files would be sent to the prosecutor...
...effective witnesses, children need gentle, careful preparation. Seattle prosecutors develop rapport by working with youngsters in a room filled with toys and coloring books. Recalls Social Worker Lucy Berliner: "Once during an interview there, the prosecutor and I lay on the floor playing Candy Land with a little girl as she told us about being molested." Also important is a visit to the courtroom so the child can sit in the witness chair and become familiar with the surroundings...
...child's natural problems in the witness chair, the experience can still be traumatic (as it often is for adults). In abuse cases, for example, youngsters must relive acutely painful incidents, and they frequently feel that they are the ones on trial. Those considerations recently cost Philadelphia Prosecutor William Heiman his sexual abuse case against the father of a four-year-old girl. She was the sole witness, and Heiman could not bring in her mother to relate what the youngster had told her because that would be inadmissible hearsay. The girl was not forced to testify, he says...
...running back for the Miami Dolphins during the glory years of the early '70s, who was convicted last November on cocaine-trafficking charges; to 20 years in prison, five more than the mandatory minimum. Said Circuit Judge Ellen Morphonios Gable, who pronounced sentence: "George [Yoss, the prosecutor] and I both like Merc, but we've got to do what...