Word: retrials
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opposed to lending such comfort. He has written a book, Truth Versus Lies (to be published by Context Books in New York City), its chief aim is to assert his sanity. The book does not address the Unabomber crimes (nor does Kaczynski in person, for he is seeking a retrial and doesn't wish to damage his slim chances), but it is the most thorough accounting of his life to date...
...death penalty, Kaczynski will first have to gain a retrial, which he knows is improbable. At a new trial, he would represent himself, but he won't discuss the strategy he might employ...
...first court battle ended in a mistrial. On retrial, the jury embraced New Thinking by finding American Tobacco liable for Horton's death--a conceptual breakthrough. But Old Thinking lingered: the jury figured, at the same time, that Horton had obviously brought cancer on himself and awarded zero dollars in damages...
...jury slapped General Motors with a $105 million verdict for having designed its C/K pickup trucks with sidesaddle gas tanks, which the plaintiffs claimed made the vehicles prone to explode during side crashes. The Georgia verdict was overturned by an appellate court on a technicality, and shortly before the retrial, the parties reached a settlement for an undisclosed amount. GM has let it be know that it plans to aggressively appeal last week?s verdict, and, says Christian, "most observers would be amazed if some undisclosed settlement did not finally occur in this case...
Kenneth Starr has decided to quit prosecuting while he?s not ahead. Late Tuesday, the Independent Counsel decided not to seek a retrial of Susan McDougal and Julie Hiatt Steele, both of whom were accused of hindering his office in separate investigations, and both of whose cases ended in mistrials earlier this year. Though the cases were different -- McDougal was accused of keeping mum about the Clintons? Arkansas business dealings and Steele was accused of lying about the Kathleen Willey case -- "both made Starr appear to be overzealous," says TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak. "McDougal made him look that...