Word: suppressions
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...pending felony case, Pomey and Gomes were denied degrees in 2002. After an unsuccessful effort by Pomey to suppress a confession she made to police and to be tried separately from Gomes, both changed their pleas to “guilty” at a September 2002 hearing. Prosecutors sought jail time, while lawyers for the defendants argued that the judge should order pre-trial probation, a step which would have prevented the guilty plea from being entered on their permanent record...
Just last month, a Middlesex Superior Court judge denied defense motions to change venue and to suppress evidence in the case, which is now scheduled for trial in September...
...defense had sought to suppress statements that Pring-Wilson made on the morning of his arrest in which he claimed to be an innocent bystander to the incident...
Court proceedings revealed the contradictory statements by Pring-Wilson that the defense was trying to suppress. The night of his arrest, Pring-Wilson called 911 and told the dispatcher that he was “just a fucking bystander” who had witnessed a stabbing...
...DIED. WILLIAM MANCHESTER, 82, scrupulous author of thrilling narratives on military and political power, best known for his 1967 book on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, The Death of a President; in Middletown, Connecticut. Jacqueline Kennedy tried to suppress the book's publication because of the inclusion of intimate family details, but relented when Manchester removed some passages. His works also included acclaimed biographies of Douglas MacArthur and Winston Churchill...