Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Enter Errol Morris. While making a documentary in 1985 about a psychiatrist who testifies in death-penalty cases, the director stumbled across Adams' story. "I was interested enough that I wanted the details," Morris recalls. What he found in the prosecutor's files shocked him. The slain officer's partner, who testified that the killer had bushy hair like Adams', had at first told investigators that the car window "was too dirty to see through." Prosecutor Doug Mulder argued that the defense could not cross-examine a witness because she was traveling. In fact, she was staying at a Dallas...
Kerry Perkins, 22, pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated rape, kidnapping and armed robbery, prosecutor Adrienne Lynch said...
...rebuttal, Sen. William Cohen (R-Me.), described the evidence in the FBI report as so weak, "no prosecutor would even bring a case like this before a court...
Instead, look for constant repetition of this sequence: North's combative attorney, Brendan Sullivan, tries to introduce in evidence a secret document that supports his client's claim to have acted only under orders from higher authority or merely followed routine Administration policy regarding covert activity. Prosecutor John Keker, on behalf of independent counsel Lawrence Walsh, objects, arguing that release of the document would damage national security. Judge Gerhard Gesell sends the jury out of the courtroom and summons ) opposing counsel to a conference. Perhaps the issue can be resolved there, but quite possibly the trial is suspended while...
North also accepted installation of a security fence around his Great Falls, Va., house from arms dealer Richard V. Secord, who had helped sell U.S. arms to Iran and divert $15 million in profits to buy weapons for the Contras, the prosecutor said...