Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police officer. The FBI is investigating the possibility that Gooden's civil rights may have been violated. Meanwhile, in a Detroit courtroom De Lorean was acquitted on 15 counts of fraud and racketeering, which could have resulted in a prison sentence as long as 20 years. Upon hearing the verdict, De Lorean declared, "Praise God!" Newton was also in a thankful mood after a federal jury in Las Vegas found NBC guilty of defaming him on news programs and awarded him $19.2 million in damages. Broadcasts in 1980 and 1981 linked the entertainer to organized-crime figures. NBC indicated that...
...phony clinic where, he admitted, he had sex with several patients. After four days of deliberations, the jury last week found Friedman and three others guilty of racketeering and bribery. Friedman vowed to go on fighting, and he was as good as his word. Shortly after the verdict, Friedman scuffled with a woman photographer and was promptly arrested on assault charges...
...West Berlin verdict and the subsequent sanctions may not be the end of international embarrassment for Damascus. A Turkish court has reportedly issued an arrest warrant for a Syrian diplomat accused of ordering the murder of a Jordanian diplomat in 1985. In addition, Austrian and Italian authorities investigating last December's airport massacres in Vienna and Rome are seeking indications of Syrian involvement...
Lumet said that any director working with Paul Newman, who plays an embattled lawyer in "The Verdict," must be able to draw the actor out ofthe part-time race car driver...
...Paul is so gorgeous that they threw him rightinto leading men parts, and he is uncomfortablewith that," Lumet said. "He is best at characterparts like in "The Verdict," and that is thechallenge I faced directing...