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...case, this leaves the decision back where it started: in the hands of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. On Monday, Judge Jackson announced that he would deliver his verdict at 5 p.m. the same day (after the close of the stock markets). Having already delivered his "finding of fact" - that Microsoft is indeed a monopoly - the judge is expected to find that Microsoft used that monopoly in violation of antitrust law. That will be followed by the the final phase of the landmark antitrust trial, expected to last several months, in which Jackson will determine a remedy that could range from...
...sure that I speak for millions of others when I express how sickened I was at the not-guilty verdict. I am 41 times more afraid of the police because this trial shows they can get away with cold-blooded murder. SCOTT GOLD Crown Point...
Washington is a city in which commercial opportunities often foreshadow shifts in government policy. This doesn't mean restrictions on doing business with Libya will end immediately, and certainly not before the trial concludes. And the verdict, whether guilty or innocent, will not erase the scars that terrorism inflicted over Lockerbie. But U.S. corporations were late getting back into Vietnam, and they never had a chance in Cuba. To them, Libya is looking less like a terrorist nation and more like another potential customer in the great global economy...
...trial of the four officers who shot Diallo, a jury of 12 honest citizens heard the evidence and concluded that the men were not guilty of murder. It is uncommon for 12 people to render a bad verdict when all the evidence is presented correctly. By definition, that is justice in America. What kind of justice is sought by people who marched in the streets protesting the verdict? Do they want everyone tried in the court of public opinion? I hope not. ROBERT DAWSON Conyers...
...were unable to determine after the first barrage that their suspect had not fired a single shot. If cooler heads had prevailed, wouldn't Diallo still be alive today? As trained professionals, police officers must be able to assess situations, not simply use deadly force against anything threatening. The verdict in the Diallo case at a minimum should have been "guilty of reckless endangerment." Now, anyone could fall victim to impetuous and rash policing. BEVERLY JACKSON Laurel...