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...killer could know. The statement was the most damning piece of evidence against Cruz when he was tried and convicted of the crime. Still, it was always a little fishy. Despite its importance, the detectives hadn't tape-recorded it or even taken notes about it. But a prosecutor, Thomas Knight, claimed that detectives had told him about the vision statement. Cruz was convicted and sentenced to death...
Under pressure to find out what went wrong, Du Page County appointed a special prosecutor, William Kunkle, who had made his name putting serial killer John Wayne Gacy on death row. Kunkle concluded that the vision statement was fabricated and that Cruz had been framed. He filed charges against three former Du Page prosecutors (two of them later became a sitting judge and an assistant U.S. Attorney) and four sheriff's deputies. The defendants all insist they are innocent, and the Nicarico family has rallied to their defense. The trial, likely to last more than a month, may be tough...
...scandal cognoscenti, there was nothing new in the headline last week that KEN STARR'S chief deputy once drafted an indictment against HILLARY CLINTON. But the confirmation by prosecutor W. HICKMAN EWING, coming at the outset of Whitewater figure SUSAN MCDOUGAL'S trial for contempt, sent chills through the First Lady and those advising her as she considers a run for a New York Senate seat, sources say. As a sign of things to come, says one, "this most recent news gives you pause...
...court, sidestepping the kind of white-hot publicity that has roasted Microsoft. And yet the only word to come out of Redmond is a leaked memo from Microsoft lawyer David Heiner to the executive team. Shunning all evidence to the contrary--including Judge Jackson's stern admonitions and chief prosecutor David Boies' demolition of defense witnesses--Heiner insists that the government's case is a house of cards built on "various random incidents or pieces of e-mail." Bad news, it seems, will have to wait a little longer...
...scandal cognoscenti, there was nothing new in the headline last week that Ken Starr?s chief deputy once drafted an indictment against Hillary Clinton. But the confirmation by prosecutor W. Hickman Ewing, coming at the outset of Whitewater figure Susan McDougal?s trial for contempt, sent chills through the First Lady and those advising her as she considers a run for a New York Senate seat, sources say. As a sign of things to come, says one, ?this most recent news gives you pause...