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Oberholtzer, who is a third-year law student, defeated a series of competitors by answering multiple-choice questions--with subjects ranging from Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet to the hit film Jerry Maguire--and expanded his winnings from $100,000 to his wallet-bursting total...
...lawyers claim the victim ignored their shouts to stop, and "acted suspiciously" by ducking into the vestibule of his apartment building. Inside the entryway, Diallo turned away from the police and pulled a black object out of his back pocket - police thought the object, which was in fact a wallet, was a gun, and opened fire. The melee that followed was exacerbated, defense lawyers allege, when one of the policemen fell on his back, prompting terrified firing from his partners...
Amadou Diallo was killed by four New York City police officers in February of 1999 as he entered the vestibule of his apartment building and reached for his wallet. And as jury selection begins in the murder trial against those four police officers, the cause of death is not up for debate; instead, both the defense and the prosecution will focus on the officers' intent when they pulled their weapons. There's some damning evidence working against the police: Diallo's body was riddled with 19 bullets of the 41 fired in total. And although the officers say they stopped...
...moment, I'll be thankful captain Trevor Allman has the basic decency to keep his hands out of freshman Brett Nowak's wallet--or worse...
...Even a wallet with no cash but one credit card is valuable," McNamara said...