Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...waking villagers who lived nearby. But not until last spring did the full horror begin to be known. Workers digging a trench for a gas pipeline through the forest near Minsk came across a heap of human skulls pierced by bullets from Nagant revolvers fired at close range. The prosecutor of the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic set up a commission to investigate the murders. Last July more skulls and bones were unearthed, along with paraphernalia of everyday life -- remnants of packed lunches, purses filled with kopecks -- indicating that the people had been snatched from their daily routines to be shot...
...Public Prosecutor Vyaceslav Kuchmin told us that about 100 local instances of Stalinist illegalities had already been reviewed. Not that Kuchmin was in complete agreement with those critics in Moscow who he felt "showed only the negative sides of our history" and drew too many "unfair comparisons" with the U.S. "We are the same people as we were then," he explained. "We can't just exchange this nation for another...
Fired tanker captain Joseph Hazelwood, 42, surrendered to police on New York's Long Island and a judge set his bail at $500,000, up from a prosecutor's recommendation of $25,000. He had been sought since Saturday on a fugitive warrant on misdemeanor charges of operating the tanker while drunk...
Adams, now 40, seems to have made his peace with his jailers, knowing that to pursue revenge could poison his future happiness. He has learned, he says, to "think the worst and hope for the least." Doug Mulder, the former Dallas prosecutor who wronged him, is shielded by law from suits by convicts. But cases like Adams' leave a residue of uneasiness: if the Supreme Court had not reversed the death sentence, and if a filmmaker had not stumbled onto suppressed evidence in locked and forgotten files, Adams would have been dead long...
...Bianco did not rest easy. When she learned two months ago that her ex- husband was eligible for a pass under the prison's furlough program, she appealed to the local prosecutor for help. "We told them it was not appropriate or wise to release him," recalls St. Joseph County Prosecutor Michael Barnes. "We said we wanted to be notified if and when he ever came up for another pass." Matheney was denied that furlough, but earlier this month prison officials did grant him an eight-hour pass without notifying Barnes or Bianco. Matheney drove to Mishawaka and, according...