Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Burly Curtis Strong showed no emotion as he listened to the verdict last week in federal court in Pittsburgh. After nearly nine hours of deliberation, the jury found the former Philadelphia Phillies caterer guilty on eleven charges of selling cocaine to major-league baseball players between 1980 and 1983. Numerous players had been associated with drugs during the twelve-day trial. Star athletes who were once heavy users, including the Kansas City Royals' Lonnie Smith, the Cincinnati Reds' Dave Parker and the New York Mets' Keith Hernandez, were granted immunity to testify against Strong. The convicted dealer faces a maximum...
...Praise the Lord," said John Z. DeLorean when he heard the not-guilty verdict at his cocaine-trafficking trial last year. But his legal troubles were far from over. A federal grand jury in Detroit last week indicted the once and possibly future automaker on new charges: mail and wire fraud, interstate transportation of stolen money, and income tax evasion. The accusations stem from his handling of the finances of DeLorean Motor Co., which went bankrupt in 1982. Investigators charge that DeLorean, 60, bilked his backers out of $8.9 million...
...stayed away from the hearings after declaring that the World Court did not have jurisdiction in the matter. And Chayes admits it is likely the defendant-in-absentia will ignore both the verdict and any damages the court awards...
Chayes returned this week from The Hague, Netherlands, where he and five others completed arguing the case that U.S support for the rebel contras in Nicaragua violates international law. The U.S. boycotted the proceedings, whose verdict should arrive in several months...
...office were the result of their antiterrorist campaign to save the country from a leftist takeover. Said Prosecutor Julio Strassera: "Accompanying me in this demand for justice are more than 9,000 desaparecidos (those who disappeared) who have left their silent but no less eloquent damning testimony." A verdict is expected by the end of the year...