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...good news for embattled boxing promoter Don King is that prosecutors will not appeal a mistrial ruling in his insurance fraud case. The bad news? Federal prosecutors immediately pushed for a retrial. A mistrial was declared Thursday when jurors remained deadlocked over whether King falsified a contract to collect $350,000 from Lloyd's of London if a 1991 fight was canceled. The defense maintains that King, who has survived three grand jury probes and was aquitted of tax evasion in 1985, was the innocent victim of his accountant, the implausibly named Joseph Maffia. King's defense contends that Maffia...
Leaster, a former death row convict who was incarcerated for fifteen years before he was acquitted at a retrial, dismissed both the moral and utilitarian arguments for the death penalty...
With little fuss, and in a town still nursing a hangover from its last famous murder trial, opening arguments began last week in the Menendez retrial; the original concluded in January 1994 with two hung juries. The outlines of the case remain the same. Lyle and Erik, who were 21 and 18 at the time of the murders, have confessed to shooting their parents Jose and Kitty as they watched television in their Beverly Hills living room. Erik, now 24, will again be represented by Leslie Abramson (although this time she will be paid by the county to the tune...
...high-publicity murder trials opened, and without the glare of courtroom television coverage. In Los Angeles prosecutors began their retrial of Lyle and Erik Menendez on charges of having murdered their parents; the prior prosecution of the brothers, who claim they were driven to kill by years of sexual abuse, ended in hung juries. In Houston, Yolanda Saldivar went on trial for the murder of Tejano singing star Selena. The former president of Selena's fan club, Saldivar claims the shooting was an accident...
Well then, enter Terry Nichols and Timothy McVeigh. These two alleged terrorists have walked in just in time to busy the media while the lawyers search the hospitals for jurors who have awoken from their comas to hear O.J.'s retrial. But Nichols and McVeigh bring with them a strange part of the American landscape that has lingered and festered outside the spotlight. Their trial illuminates the dozen or so "citizen's militas," which may very well reveal something deeper about the American psyche than Al Cowling's 900-number or Fox's made-for-TV movie...