Word: prosecutors
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...seemed that the pace of U.S. executions could soon quicken. Says Texas District Judge Doug Shaver: "1983 will bring some more. So many on death row are ripe. They've had years there and have been through all the [legal] processes. And this humane way," says ex-Prosecutor Shaver of death-by-injection, "will make it more palatable...
DIED. Leon Jaworski, 77, courteous, square-jawed Texas lawyer who gained national fame and a place in constitutional history when, as Watergate special prosecutor, he convinced the U.S. Supreme Court that even the President was bound to submit to a subpoena for White House tapes, the eventual release of which led to Richard Nixon's resignation; of an apparent heart attack; near Wimberley, Texas. The son of an Evangelical Lutheran minister, Jaworski built a large and flourishing practice in booming Houston between assignments for the Government, which ranged from serving as a prosecutor in the 1945-46 Nuremberg trials...
...Florida's death row, has summarized the flaws in the judicial system that led the Supreme Court to declare all statewide capital punishment laws unconstitutional in 1972: "Being on death row depends so much on class status, economic status, the ability to get adequate representation, how seriously the prosecutor seeks the death penalty, what kind of jury you get. It's all pretty arbitrary, really...
...left out in the cold." His multimillion-dollar gunrunning operation to Libyan terrorists, they argued, was nothing more than a clever cover for his real mission: ferreting out Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi's secrets for his former employer, the Central Intelligence Agency. But the Government prosecutor in federal district court in Alexandria, Va., depicted Edwin Wilson, 54, not as an undercover agent but as a skilled, avaricious wheeler-dealer, exploiting contacts and expertise built up after years of "Company" service. After deliberating only 4½ hours, the five-man, seven-woman jury last week sided with the prosecutor...
...court last week, the prosecution laid out an impressive case. Prosecutor Theodore Greenberg elicited the most damaging testimony from Wilson's former associates. His girlfriend and manager of his Geneva office, Roberta Barnes-code-named "Wonder Woman" in the operation-said that Wilson did send the U.S. Government information about Libyan plans to build an atomic bomb, but only after he was already under indictment. Peter Goulding, another former aide, testified that Wilson had threatened to kill Goulding's wife if Goulding returned to the U.S. and cooperated with investigators. He also entertained the jury with a vivid...