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Faneuil, 28, was preparing to take the stand on day two of the trial and was expected to tell this version of the events to the jury, when Bacanovic's lawyer, Richard Strassberg, stunned the courtroom by calling for a mistrial. Strassberg said that at 10:15 the previous night the prosecution had belatedly faxed him a copy of an interview the FBI had conducted with Faneuil's former lawyer, Jeremiah Gutman, 80, which hinted at a different version of events. Gutman said he couldn't remember whom Faneuil had identified--Bacanovic or Waksal--as the one who had instructed...
...Alpha Chapter also selected Ameek Ponda, Economics; Bjorn M. Poonen, Mathematics; Daniel A. Raskas, Government; H. Scott Roy, Computer Science; Daniel S. Sage, Mathematics; Andrew A. Samwick, Economics; Andrew R. Slusky, Economics; Alexander B. Star, History and Literature; Adam F. Strassberg, Engineering Sciences; Nicholas Waldvogel, Music; Adam Weiss, Fine Arts; and John C. Yoo, History...
Whatever the passions, whatever the pressures, it is impossible for the stool-pigeon to be anything but loathsome. But dammit, I couldn't hate Carbone. He was too pitiable. Bill Seres--racing through his early speeches, throwing away the trivial lines in polished Strassberg style, and finally crying, with the whimper of his whole being for "respect"--suckered me into loving him. The secret hopes and anxieties locked within him, isolating him from his wife, from his fellow workers, were too human for me to resist. How could I bring myself to admit he deserved to die? I couldn...
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