Word: retrial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...established independent counsel. Two of Deaver's three guilty verdicts came on charges of lying to Seymour's grand jury that was investigating him for possible ethics-law violations. If the independent-counsel law is overturned, Seymour's work would be thrown out, and Deaver would be liable for retrial only on a single count of falsely testifying to a congressional committee. Given the evidence against Deaver, it was perhaps the best Miller could have done...
Before Mrs. Aitken's death--and before the 1985 retrial of von Bulow that ended in his acquittal--she disinherited Miss von Bulow because her granddaughter stood by her father during his four-year ordeal...
Socialite Claus von Bulow did not testify during the retrial which acquitted him last year because his legal advisers wanted the jury to focus on medical rather than "soapopera testimony," said von Bulow's lawyer, Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz in his upcoming book, "Reversal of Fortune...
...Claus taken the stand, the jury's focus would have been on him," said Dershowitz, who was hired by von Bulow to secure a retrial and to advise him on his defense. "And no one can know for sure what the verdict would have been...
...assistant to Dershowitz said yesterday, "He and Claus have remained friends,... or at least acquaintances" since the retrial. The aide, who wished not to be identified, added, however, that Dershowitz, a criminal lawyer, would not work on von Bulow's case in the civil suit filed against the socialite by two von Bulow children...