Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stake in the trial was far more than the maximum penalty of $30,000 in fines. Ford's losses in civil suits resulting from Pinto accidents already total millions of dollars. Executives feared that a guilty verdict in Winamac could expose the firm to untold millions of dollars in punitive damages-a penalty above and beyond a plaintiffs actual losses-in the nearly 40 Pinto cases still pending. Little wonder, then, that Ford was reportedly willing to budget $1 million for its defense, which was headed by James Neal, 50, the gravel-voiced Tennessean who was chief prosecutor...
...women began their deliberations, only four of them seemed convinced by the state's case. As time wore on, three more moved over into the Ford column, and finally, after 25 hours, the last holdout, James A. Yurgilas, made it unanimous. A relieved Neal said he hoped the verdict would "discourage prosecutions like this in the future." But some legal experts doubt that it will. They believe that the publicity may encourage prosecutors elsewhere to bring similar cases. Said Cosentino: "I would hope that the fact that Ford Motor Co. had to come to Winamac, Ind., and defend itself...
...Ford headquarters in Dearborn, Henry Ford II greeted the verdict as "great, good news." The trial was, in fact, one of several legal actions that apparently had induced him to delay his retirement beyond last Oct. 1, when he would have preferred to leave. Earlier this year, for instance, the Justice Department informed the automaker that it had dropped an investigation into alleged bribery in 1975 of officials in Indonesia...
...Verdict on a mass murderer...
...state Liu Shaoqi (Liu Shao-ch'i); Chairman Mao Tse-tung, who regarded Liu as a rival for power, had deemed him to be the nation's chief enemy. Last week the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, meeting secretly in Peking, reversed Mao's verdict and effectively rewrote the past 13 years of Chinese history...