Word: retrials
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...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...
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...
...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...