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...Murderers! Murderers!" yelled an enraged black spectator at the trial in New York City as the jury foreman announced the verdict. Two white teenagers, charged with chasing a black man out of their Howard Beach neighborhood to his death on a freeway, had been acquitted of murder and convicted, along with a third youth, on the lesser charge of manslaughter. A fourth had been found innocent of all charges. Though the gray decision satisfied the victim's mother, it could not dispel all the passions that have arisen among both blacks and whites since the tragedy one year ago made...
Call it the Week of the Special Prosecutor. The guilty verdict in the case of former White House Aide Michael Deaver was the first obtained by an independent counsel since the Ethics in Government Act formalized the terms of the job a decade ago. One day before the conviction, a reluctant Ronald Reagan signed into law a bill extending the counsel provisions of the ethics measure for five years. Meanwhile, Washington was bracing itself for the possibility of a raft of criminal indictments in another probe by a special prosecutor: the Iran-contra investigation...
...passed both houses of Congress by sizable majorities, Reagan had little choice but to sign it, despite what he called "strong doubts about its constitutionality." Rejecting the measure would have been especially awkward for the President, since some of those under investigation are among his closest cronies. The Deaver verdict was a victory for Whitney North Seymour Jr., a former U.S. Attorney in Manhattan who was appointed special prosecutor in May 1986. After the verdict, Seymour, himself a Republican, lashed out at the Reagan Administration for its lack of ethical leadership. Without such a guiding example, he said, the best...
...federal courtroom in Washington last week, expecting the worst. His lawyers, in a long-shot gamble, had presented no evidence to counter the assertion by Independent Counsel Whitney North Seymour Jr. that Deaver had repeatedly lied under oath about his lucrative lobbying business. When the jury returned guilty verdicts on three of five counts, canny Defense Counsel Jack Miller manfully shouldered the blame: "We didn't put on a defense because we didn't think we had to. The jury verdict suggests I may have made a mistake...
Barrington Bell Jr., the jury fore man, said the panel reached its verdict "after very intense, and I mean intense, deliberations...