Word: pretrial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...testimony last week gave a much needed boost to the prosecution. Since the trial got under way three weeks ago, four key witnesses have recanted their pretrial testimony. Two of them admitted they had initially been swayed by hopes of sharing in the $7.5 million reward offered by the government. The court has been sharply criticized for agreeing to preconditions set by Lisbet Palme for her testimony, including a ban on tape recorders and television cameras. The prosecutors, whose case against Pettersson is built on circumstantial evidence, have yet to come up with a murder weapon or a motive...
...center of the controversy is a pretrial hearing that ended last week in the same Bronx, N.Y., courthouse that was depicted in Tom Wolfe's best seller The Bonfire of the Vanities. Joseph Castro, a 38-year-old janitor, stands accused of killing a neighbor and her two-year-old daughter. According to the prosecutors, a portion of DNA extracted from a spot of blood on Castro's watch matched DNA taken from the murdered mother. The chance of such a match occurring at random, said scientists called by the prosecution, was 1 in 100 million...
...justice and a few other terms not found in the playbooks made their way into the sports section. Brent Fullwood of the Packers, Paul Palmer of the Chiefs and Ronnie Harmon of the Bills headed a list of 43 named but unindicted former Walters and Bloom clients who cut pretrial deals involving community service and scholarship refunds. So sports are not above the law after...
Gesell also said the trials should be held in Washington, rejecting a defense argument that the pretrial publicity has damaged the defendants' right to have a fair trial...
...trial. "To pardon is to forgive," says New York University Law Professor Stephen Gillers. "It's odd to forgive before guilt is established." It has rarely happened. For most of the nation's history, pardons were basically exemptions from some or all punishment after conviction. Even more significantly, any pretrial pardon for Oliver North and his companions would have great practical consequences. It would head off the possibility that both Reagan and George Bush might be called to testify. Some think such a pardon would be an improper short- circuiting of the legal process...