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...names of jurors after a trial is over allows members of the press to contact those vested with this enormous power to get a first-hand account of the jury's impressions and deliberations. Airing this sort of information will help the public at large reach a verdict on whether the courts have done justice in any particular case...
Noriega's extraordinary performance was carefully scripted melodrama, but he was not the only one wondering if he would ever face a verdict in a U.S. court. The government last week found itself floundering even further in its bid to convict Noriega of allowing Panama to be used for drug shipments by the Colombian cocaine cartel. During his hearing, Noriega's three attorneys sought to have Hoeveler dismiss the case on the basis of government misconduct, including the alleged illegal taping of Noriega's telephone conversations with his lawyers from his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center near Miami. Said...
...behavior at the bar? With unusual candor, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy says lawyers are not measuring up: "We see shoddy practice in every court in the country, including the Supreme Court of the United States. We are sometimes very disappointed in the quality of oral arguments." This verdict need not be final. Kennedy sees an appeal in one of his favorite projects: the American Inns of Court, launched in 1980, which now has 8,000 members, including about 25% of all federal judges. The idea is that experienced attorneys should pass on their skills to neophytes. "We teach these...
...Tombar) to raise the five-thousand dollars necessary to hire slick lawyer Billy Flynn (Todd Forman), Roxie may escape with her life. But she's got competition for newspaper headlines and public sympathy from equally celebrated murderess Velma Kelly (Vonnie Roemer). Which one will get the not-guilty verdict first...
...from two international poll-watching teams. Said interim Prime Minister and Islamic Democratic Alliance leader Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi: "We cannot depend on the whims and fantasies of a young lady, attractive though she may be for the media at home and abroad. The country has given its verdict...