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...been followed feverishly by activists on the left and right, was filed on behalf of Journalists Tony Avirgan and Martha Honey, who claimed that the 1984 bombing of a press conference held by Nicaraguan Rebel Leader Eden Pastora Gomez was the work of 29 conspirators, including retired Generals Richard Secord and John Singlaub and former CIA Deputy Director of Operations Theodore Shackley. Sheehan, who will appeal the dismissal, claims it is a "conscious action to stop this case from going to trial before the election...
...congressional committees that investigated the affair for vastly complicating his chore. The committees "were interested much more in what the President knew," Gesell growled last month. "They were chasing a rabbit they never caught." Last week he hinted that some of the smaller quarry -- Oliver North, John Poindexter, Richard Secord and Albert Hakim -- may also elude the criminal snares set by Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh...
...determination to bare the scandal, Congress granted immunity to all the defendants except Secord. That means their testimony cannot be used against them in a trial. But since the four are charged with conspiracy, each defendant has the right to use statements of his coconspirators that might show his own innocence. Last week Gesell ruled that the way out of this dilemma is to hold four trials. A jury thus could listen to immunized testimony that might help the defendant on trial in one case, while this testimony could not be used in the trial of the man who gave...
...Walsh must present the same evidence four times, using three separate % staffs (except in the Secord trial). That is because prosecutors trying one case are not supposed to know what immunized testimony was used in a previous trial -- a practical absurdity. Conceded a prosecution source: "There may be only one trial...
Walsh told Gesell his first target would be North. But he asked Gesell to consider a novel alternative: trying North and Poindexter together but with two juries (one would leave the courtroom when the immunized testimony of its defendant was discussed); then doing the same with Secord and Hakim...