Word: witnessers
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When Puerto Rican police gunned down two radical supporters of independence in 1978, the executions kicked off a scandal that helped bring down a Governor and resulted in the convictions of ten policemen for perjury. Last week in San Juan, U.S. District Court Judge Carmen C. Cerezo sentenced former Police...
The big smiles around the defense table in the Providence courtroom all but told the story. Judge Corinne Grande had just deflated one of the prosecution's main hopes in the retrial of Claus von Bulow for allegedly trying to kill his now comatose wife Martha ("Sunny") von Bulow in...
Trial observers said that Gilbert hurt himself with his stoic manner and his calm description of the shooting while on the witness stand. His emotionless testimony made it easier for prosecutors to charge that the killing was a cold-blooded act that had nothing to do with mercy. Said one...
The scent of reform is in the air on Capitol Hill as well. The leaders of the movement span the political spectrum. They include Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Congressman Richard Gephardt of Missouri, both moderate Democrats, Senator Bob Kasten of Wisconsin and Congressman Jack Kemp of New...
The son of a well-to-do family, Mengele studied medicine in Frankfurt, specializing in genetics. During the war, he was sent to do research at Auschwitz. His crimes there were prominently mentioned at the 1945-46 International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg and, more recently, at a hearing in Jerusalem...