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...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...
...acquittal of four police officers in the first Rodney King trial raised havoc in large part because they were freed by a jury with no blacks, drawn from a California community with very few. In May the retrial of Hispanic police officer William Lozano, whose 1989 shooting of a black motorcyclist set off three days of rioting in Miami, was shuffled five times among three Florida cities in search of a "balanced" jury. Ultimately, a jury consisting of three whites, two Hispanics and one black acquitted Lozano...
...District Judge Marvin Shoob allows Drogoul to change his plea this week, it is sure to re-open questions about the government's awareness of the financial chicanery surrounding Iraq's military buildup. Though a retrial by jury would be months away, the specter of the "Iraq-gate" scandal would surely hang, unresolved, over the Bush White House until well after the November election...
...nail him for lying to Congress about the Iran-contra affair. Though the former CIA chief of clandestine operations received a respite three weeks ago when a jury could not reach a verdict on nine counts of perjury, making false statements and obstruction of justice, he now faces a retrial at the hands of special prosecutor Craig Gillen. Just as he did last time, Gillen can be expected to put the entire CIA on trial by charging that George was merely the pawn in an agency that had consistently shown contempt for Congress, for due process and ultimately...