Word: prosecutors
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...might be tempted to distance himself from his guards whenever he wants to talk, or whatever, in private. The privilege has exceptions, the lawyers argue. Agents could be compelled to testify about whether they had witnessed a President committing a crime, such as taking a bribe. But a prosecutor wanting to know about, say, noncriminal caperings with an intern could be refused. "Proximity is the heart and soul of what we do," says Secret Service director Lewis Merletti, who pressed for the privilege. "It can't be compromised...
...presidents have lost. On the surface, it was a snoozer: Executive Privilege 101. But pick apart the professorial text, and you get Starr's most savage attack on the President to date. Take the ending: "No one, absolutely no one, is above the law." Technically, a quote from Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski, but also the exact words Newt Gingrich has spent the last week crafting into a rallying cry for the right. Was Starr trying to be simpatico with the Speaker? It's hard to imagine otherwise...
...TRIAL GRANTED. To SHAREEF COUSIN, a 19-year-old on death row and the subject of a Jan. 19, 1998, TIME investigation; by the Louisiana Supreme Court; in New Orleans. Citing the prosecutor's "flagrant misuse" of key evidence, the justices reversed Cousin's murder conviction in a 7-to-0 decision...
...year. No luck. Then he opened up a store selling his magazine, soft-core porn and sex toys. Nada. So he shipped in the hard stuff. Almost immediately the city redrew its zoning laws to make his store illegal. But before he got nailed for that violation, the county prosecutor sent in a 14-year-old kid to buy armloads of videos. Now Flynt is facing 15 counts of pandering obscenity and up to 24 years in jail. And he looks happy...
...Deters, the young Hamilton County prosecutor who scored the indictment against Flynt last Tuesday, thinks he knows an obscene film when he sees one. "There's no pretense of a plot here; there's not even any music," he says. Citing one of Flynt's legal arguments that these videos are used as marital aids, he laughs and says: "Couples use these as marital aids? Yeah, right. Bring them in. Because we'd like to ask them some questions...