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...District judge in Los Angeles tossed out Keating's 1993 conviction--and 12 1/2-year sentence--for fraud. The judge, whose ruling could lead to a retrial, said several jurors were prejudiced by knowledge of Keating's 1991 conviction on similar charges in a California state court. That verdict vaporized too: a federal appeals court overturned it last April on grounds that Judge Lance Ito (of O.J. fame) had given jurors improper instructions...
...playful, like those of an actor savoring the potential of a new role, a fresh persona. Despite the thousands of words written by and about him, Alger Hiss, who died last week at 92, remains one of the most tantalizing figures of the cold war. His 1949 trial and retrial in a Soviet-espionage case personified the explosive political and class conflicts of the time, serving as the first morality play of the red-baiting era. And the case gave one of its investigators, Congressman Richard Nixon, the national prominence he would later exploit to pursue higher office...
MISTRIAL DECLARED. In the first rape trial of ALEX KELLY, 29, fugitive for nine years; in Stamford, Connecticut. Kelly, who skipped bail in 1987 after being accused of rape by two women, still faces trial in the second case and a probable retrial in the first...
While I was making my way through yesterday's New York Times, an article on page four caught my attention. Its headline read, "Nazi Case Forces Italy to Revisit Sore Subject," and it concerned the upcoming retrial of Erich Priebke, a Nazi war criminal responsible for the murders of 355 Italian civilians. A military court had found him not guilty, on the grounds that the statute of limitations had expired on the crime, but the outcry in Rome, coupled with an extradition request on behalf of the German government, prompted Italy's highest court to allow a retrial. Priebke...
...Bill Clinton's 1990 bid for governor. The jury remained hopelessly deadlocked on the remaining seven counts against Herby Branscum Jr. and Robert M. Hilland and the judge declared a mistrial on those charges. That action leaves open the possibility that Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr could call for a retrial on those charges. What the bankers can not be retried for is the charge that they conspired to conceal from the IRS $52,500 in cash withdrawals drawn from the Clinton gubernatorial campaign coffers. White House deputy counsel Bruce Lindsey had been named an unindicted co-conspirator in that alleged...