Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Roger Hedgecock resigned. Then last Thursday, amid allegations of jury tampering, Hedgecock's lawyers filed a motion for a new trial. The following day, just before he was due to leave office, Hedgecock announced that he would stay on, pending the outcome. Said he: "If there is no valid verdict, there is no basis for resignation...
...know the meaning or historical import of the events he jots down in what he calls his "Waste Book." No longer able to believe in heavenly salvation, he does think of his journal as "my hope of Immortality." It will take a few decades to reach a firm verdict, but a first reading of The Tree of Life strongly suggests that Keene will get his wish...
...mayor admitted inexpressible "disappointment" and "anguish" at the verdict. The superior-court jury was sequestered almost seven days before reaching its verdict, largely because it found confronting the evidence a "painful experience," as Juror Karen Dyer put it. In the end, the panel concluded that Hedgecock had 1) conspired to allow some $360,000 in illicit funds to be channeled into his 1983 campaign, and 2) lied over and over to cover up the scheme. The prosecutor, Deputy District Attorney Charles Wickersham, said that what clinched the verdict was a check for $3,000 made out to Hedgecock...
...money used on his house. Dominelli and Hoover are slated to be tried later, along with Political Consultant Tom Shepard, through whose firm hidden money passed to the Hedgecock campaign. Hedgecock's attorney, Oscar Goodman, said he will seek a new trial or, failing that, appeal the jury verdict. Hedgecock also faces legal action by California's Fair Political Practices Commission, which is trying to assess him $975,000 in fines for an unprecedented 400 campaign-law violations. Even after last week's verdict, Hedgecock was not without support. Said City Councilman Mike Gotch: "I think he's been...
Millard, whose family owns more than 95% of ComputerLand, is also scrambling to overturn a March verdict in which a California jury awarded 20% of the company's shares to a group of investors that includes a former employee. The judgment ordered Millard to pay $115 million in punitive damages for refusing to deliver stock owed to the investors. It was one of the stiffest such awards in California history. Millard must post a $25 million bond by early November to appeal the ruling...