Word: prosecutors
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...closing arguments at Jordan's court martial, one prosecutor was quoted by The Washington Post as saying, "This case is not about what the accused did at Abu Ghraib, it's about what he divorced himself from doing." He added that Jordan failed to discharge his duties as a commander. "He didn't train, he didn't supervise, he didn't ensure compliance." Jordan's defense lawyers argued that he had no direct responsibility in the chain of command for what happened at Abu Ghraib and never personally participated in any of the abuse...
...Vladimir Solovyev, the criminologist in the Prosecutor General's Office who led the forensic research for identification on the Romanov remains for the 1998 re-burial, stated at the time that Russian geneticists could say only that they had a father, a mother, and three daughters...
...Mayor's Skill SetGiuliani and his aides have said he has been "studying Islamic terrorism" for 30 years. This is an exaggeration. As a prosecutor and Justice Department official in the 1970s and '80s, Giuliani had many successes - against white collar criminals and the Mafia. He did not direct major terrorism prosecutions that led to convictions. As Mayor, he worked relatively closely with the FBI, according to James Kallstrom, former FBI assistant director in charge of the New York office. "The four years that I was there, we had a fabulous relationship," says Kallstrom. "He was able to do many...
...Bridget Brennan, a special narcotics prosecutor in New York City, has the same fear as Winner that violent offenders and drug kingpins are beginning to win reduced sentences. "There was a mythology about who is serving these sentences," said Brennan, who was a homicide prosecutor during the height of the city's crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s. "It was the image of a woman forced to be a drug courier. But when we looked at those applying to change their sentences, there were only two women: one who supervised the shipment of 155 kilos of cocaine and the other...
...There is no statute to address the narcotics trafficker who we commonly see in New York City," she said. "As a homicide prosecutor, 60% of my cases came from drug sales. I don't want to see this city again...