Word: retrials
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sickened city, however, remained touched by submerged tension as a court ordered a retrial for L.A.P.D. officer Laurence Powell on the leftover charge of excessive force, the only count not dismissed by the Simi Valley jury in the Rodney King trial. The judge also invited the prosecution and defense to present their arguments this week on the possibility of returning the trial to Los Angeles...
...this, activists contend, the justice system serves only the interests of the rich and powerful. In February a state appeals court in Acre overturned -- on grounds of insufficient evidence -- the conviction of rancher Darly Alves da Silva for his participation in the Chico Mendes murder and ordered a retrial. "The conviction was the first time an executor of a crime against an activist was brought to justice," says Sueli Bellato, one of the prosecuting attorneys in the Mendes case. "The reversal is an incentive to continue the killing...
...said Earl, who got possession of the gun in August after winning a court battle for control of Jack's estate. Earl will use the money to cover debts, including an $86,000 tax bill, that his brother left after he died in jail in 1967 while awaiting a retrial. Like so much else in the story of the Kennedy assassination, the identity of the purchaser remains a mystery. The bidder, Frank Roman, says he bought the pistol on behalf of an anonymous gun collector...
...seemed ready to fade from the courts, the news and the mind. After costing more than four years and $25.5 million, the investigation headed by special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh was limping to a close. A federal appeals court had overturned Lieut. Colonel Oliver North's felony conviction, and a retrial seemed unlikely. The same outcome seemed possible for former National Security Adviser John Poindexter's conviction...