Word: reno
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...prosecution's confidence in its case led to the collapse of another defense effort: pleading guilty to save Kaczynski's life. The plea was sent along to Washington by the Special Attorney Robert Cleary in Sacramento, and after several weeks of consideration, Attorney General Janet Reno and the Justice Department rejected it. Said a high-ranking department official: "This man is a cold-blooded killer. Read his writing." Kaczynski's brother David, who turned him in, claims that the government should have fully investigated his mental state, including interviewing the family, before deciding on the death penalty. The Justice official...
SACRAMENTO: So another attempt to end the tortured spectacle of the Unabomber trial has failed. It's being reported ? and not denied by the Justice Department ? that Ted Kaczynski made a second offer to plead guilty in exchange for his life. But Reno's men turned down the deal because it left a remote chance Kaczynski could someday go free. The court is still considering the issue of Kaczynski's competency, and if the Unabomber suspect were found mentally unfit, any plea bargain deal would go out of the window. That would not automatically give Kaczynski...
...ultimately leveled against au pair Louise Woodward: involuntary manslaughter. Woodward was sentenced to time already served; Nichols may face the death penalty. Why? Because myopic America wants revenge at any cost for Oklahoma's dead. Likewise, the country wants to see the pernicious Unabomber die so badly that Janet Reno rejected an insanity plea last week in order to preserve the possibility of imposing the death penalty...
This week lawyers for college instructor YVETTE FARMER plan to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider what could be a pivotal affirmative-action case. Farmer, a white woman, alleges that the sociology department at the University of Nevada, Reno, passed her over for a job and that later, when it did hire her, she was paid $7,000 less than a comparable black teacher because of her race and gender. Farmer, who is suing for back pay, claims that university officials explicitly told her JOHNSON MAKOBA, a black Ugandan, was hired first and paid more because "he's black...
...magazine has made Intel boss Andy Grove its 1997 man of the year. But while the California chip-makers are popping champagne corks, the Windows part of the "Wintel" axis has spent the week shrouded in gloom. The Justice Department has sunk its teeth into Microsoft, and neither Janet Reno nor Joel Klein seem inclined...