Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disputed verdict touches off rioting in Miami...
...jury had just acquitted four white former Dade County police officers of charges relating to the death of her son, Arthur McDuffie, 33, associate manager of an insurance office, who was fatally beaten last December after an eight-minute police chase for speeding on his motorcycle. News of the verdict flew through the black sections of the Miami area, and within a few hours an angry black crowd gathered outside the Dade County Public Safety Department headquarters. Soon it numbered more than 5,000. The besieged Dade County police radioed for help...
Charges of angelic fraud, a verdict of plagiarism
...other troubles as well last week: as a result of a federal jury verdict, the network and two co-defendants must pay Writer Harlan Ellison $285,000 for plagiarism of a script about a robot police officer. After Ellison's proposal was rejected, ABC and Co-Defendant Paramount Pictures collaborated on a similar production called Future Cop. The feisty Ellison was aware of the risks of such a suit. "It's a company town," he says. "You blow the whistle and you don't work." Writers, some of whom complain that networks and producers constantly appropriate their...
...weeks, lawyers argued their cases before Atlanta Judge Charles A. Moye Jr.-with the help of courtroom bombast, some 20,000 documents and 173 witnesses, including testimonials from luminaries like Lillian Carter. Finally, after mulling over the evidence for eight days, the jurors last week reached a verdict. They found former Budget Director Bert Lance not guilty on nine counts of bank fraud, but deadlocked on three other counts of banking violations. As the jurors filed out of the courtroom, several of them waved at Lance and his wife LaBelle. Beamed Lance afterward: "We just plain licked...