Word: retrials
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...prove a deliberate or reckless disregard for the truth -- a higher standard that applies to public figures under fire. The 1992 New Yorker article focused on Masson's firing as projects director of the Sigmund Freud Archives. After Masson's earlier win, the jury deadlocked on damages and a retrial was ordered. Although Malcolm may have been cleared, she was forced to reveal that she had compressed quotes from different interviews and presented them as part of one. "Even though she won a clear cut victory in court she still leaves this case with her reputation tarnished," says TIME legal...
...number of black people on it." Last week a number of senior deputy D.A.s gathered socially, and the talk invariably turned to the Simpson case. An air of resignation immediately overwhelmed the room. "It is not a winnable case," said an attorney. "My prediction? Hung jury, bail, retrial, hung again, dismissed." As he spoke, his colleagues listened in gloomy silence -- and nodded...