Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tactical triumph for the Government, Judge Earl Carroll barred all testimony on the religious and humanitarian motives behind the defendants' actions. Sanctuary lawyers nonetheless managed to slip several such references into testimony, and they plan to cite Carroll's ruling when they appeal the verdict. Prosecutor Reno, grandson of a Methodist preacher, faced some obstacles. He had the unenviable task of portraying as criminals a group of pious Good Samaritans (who held a prayer meeting after the jury announced its verdicts). One of the 15 Central Americans summoned to the stand by Reno, for instance, described a defendant...
...verdict] shows the Ad Board isn't totallydesensitized to students." Mitchell said...
Mitchell, who will be on disciplinary probationuntil the spring of 1987, said that a personalappearance at the initial Ad Board meeting lastweek could have averted the first verdict. SaidMitchell, "You've got to know the kid before youcan make the decision...
...think a personal appearance is necessary toget a fair verdict." said Gregory P. Gicewicz, whowill also be on probation until next spring...
WHILE THE FINAL VERDICT is still out on Kurt Waldheim's involvement as a German lieutenant in World War II, newly publicized information is sufficiently damaging to leave no more doubt that the former Secretary General of the United Nations bears at least some measure of responsibility for Nazi atrocities...