Word: prosecutor
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Known as "special prosecutors," private lawyers are widely used in Kentucky to assist state prosecutors, especially in murder cases. "There's a feeling in eastern Kentucky that if someone in your family is killed, you're not going to be shamed in the eyes of the rest of the community by not having your own attorney," says Charles Coy, a Richmond, Ky., lawyer who has been hired several times as a special prosecutor. The state prosecutors do not mind, since they are often hamstrung by a lack of resources. The commonwealth attorney for Perry County, where the Melton...
Ford recalls that after becoming President, he learned from Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski that the case against Nixon was "wide-ranging" and could "take years" to settle. He feared that Nixon "would not spend time quietly at San Clemente." Says Ford: "It would be virtually impossible for me to direct public attention to anything else ... [At Yale Law School] I learned that public policy often took precedence over rule of law." Consequently, he decided to pardon Nixon "to get the monkey off my back one way or the other." Ford adds: "Compassion for Nixon as an individual hadn...
...turned out, Bell's problems were far from over. Trying to resist any comparison with Watergate, Bell made Curran a "special counsel," not a "special prosecutor," the title carried by Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski when they led the investigations that helped to bring about Richard Nixon's downfall. There was one important difference: unlike the special prosecutors, Curran would not have the power to charge anyone on his own. He would first have to get the approval of Assistant Attorney General Philip Heymann...
...criticism confined to the Republicans. None other than Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd took to the floor to express keen disappointment in Bell's action. He thought that the Attorney General should have named Curran as special prosecutor, and he asked that the appointee be given "explicit protection against removal except for extraordinary improprieties...
...sexual activity. Michigan's comprehensive 1974 rape reform law has been the model. At a preliminary hearing for the man who offered Alice a ride, the defendant's lawyer started asking her questions about her penchant for hitchhiking with men. Citing Michigan's shield law, the prosecutor successfully objected to that line of questioning. Unable to discredit Alice's testimony, the defense lawyer quickly made a deal: his client would plead guilty to criminal sexual conduct in the first degree if the prosecutor agreed to drop charges of possessing a firearm and robbery. Still...