Word: suppressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...depend on what jurors think about the fact that Jose Camacho, the cutlery-store salesclerk, was paid $12,500 by the National Enquirer to repeat his story to them, money that Camacho will split with his bosses. Though Shapiro failed in an attempt to get Judge Kennedy-Powell to suppress the testimony, he could argue to a jury that Camacho and one of his bosses had embellished their story or invented it to make it more salable. "How can you trust an individual when he or she has a financial interest in juicing up a story?" asks Los Angeles criminal...
...that evidence could be decisive if the prosecution is permitted to use it at a trial. It came to light only because of a defense motion to suppress 34 items collected by police. Shapiro maintains that they were gathered illegally because detectives searched Simpson's house for nearly six hours before obtaining a warrant. Even the warrant is illegal, he says, because in their effort to get it, police claimed that Simpson had fled when in fact he had taken a long-planned business trip. Under some circumstances -- say, for instance, when police fear that evidence will be destroyed -- warrantless...
...losses may be causing more problems than they solve. The Italian campaign, which began just as the newly elected right- wing government of media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi took office, hit largely left-leaning bulletin boards. And it is seen by some Italians as an ill- disguised attempt to suppress free speech on a troublesome new medium. In the U.S. a widely publicized federal case against a college student accused of operating a pirate bulletin board may backfire if, as expected, a judge rules that the charges filed against the student do not fit the crime. The underlying difficulty, say copyright...
...murdered 33 young men and boys during the 1970s would be executed by lethal injection at the Stateville penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois. Justice would be served, swift and clean, as three chemicals were introduced intravenously into his bloodstream. The first drug would knock him out, the second would suppress his breathing, the last would stop his heart. The procedure would take no more than five minutes. But Gacy would take 18 minutes to die. A clog developed in the delivery tube attached to his arm. Gacy snorted just before death-chamber attendants pulled a curtain around him as they struggled...
...comprise Harvard's ROTC contingent by and large oppose the ban on gays themselves. As members of the military, they are more likely than other officers to demand a liberalization of its policies. Thus, ironically, in the staff's overzealous attempt to do what is right, it would suppress the efforts of those students who dream of joining, and changing, the military...