Word: verdicts
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Thus began what is intended to be the most thorough inquiry so far into Waldheim's wartime record. Yet the "trial" is taking place not in a court but in a TV studio outside London. The defendant will not be present, and the judges' verdict will have no legal standing. The bulk of the proceedings, moreover, are being kept secret until they are shown on television -- edited down to a 3 1/2-hour program that will air June 5 in the U.S. on HBO, as well as in Britain and nearly 30 other countries, but not Austria...
When the conspiracy trial of 13 white supremacists began in Fort Smith, Ark., last February on charges that they were part of a plot to overthrow the Government and establish an Aryan nation in the Pacific Northwest, prosecutors were convinced that a jury would return a guilty verdict. Three of the suspects lead Hitlerite hate groups and claim that the Government is under "Zionist occupation." Nine of the defendants were charged with conspiracy, and five were accused of planning to murder federal officials. Six of the 13 were in jail for other crimes, including two found guilty of murdering Alan...
Judge Gerhard Gesell's announced determination to move the indictments along quickly could make a pardon more likely, since a trial could be under way by Election Day, with a verdict in hand before Reagan leaves office on Jan. 20. One scenario is that Reagan would defiantly pardon the Iranscam defendants in the final hours of his presidency; another is that he would grant a pardon right after the election. Waiting until just after the voting would be ethically very dubious, says Washington Lawyer James Hamilton, a former Senate Watergate committee counsel. He believes it would be "highly inappropriate, depriving...
Under federal law, a judge may only throw out a jury's verdict if "no evidence [has been presented] from which a rational jury could have concluded a breach of contract," Ryan said. He said Harvard had a "reasonably good chance" that the judge would overturn the jury's verdict when he examines the post-trial motions next month...
Plaintiff attorney Anne Gilmore, however, said she thought there was little chance Garrity would overturn the jury's verdict. She said she thought that the Harvard attorneys were appealing the case because "the worst thing for Harvard is to have a finding of discrimination against them...