Word: prosecutor
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Chief Defense Attorney Paul Goldberger argued, with little supporting evidence, that Townley had killed Letelier on the instructions of the CIA rather than DINA. Goldberger called Townley "an animal" and "a man who talks about eliminating people as if they were bugs." Replied Prosecutor E. Lawrence Barcella Jr.: "Then what kind of people are Guillermo Novo and Alvin Ross?" The jurors needed less than nine hours of deliberation to answer that question...
...Coughlin case is a recognition of all that. Prosecutor Kirby notes a "truly remarkable change" in Coughlin. Last June he was "very haggard, confused, worn out"; last week he was "alert, even jovial at times...
...Communist losses in last year's regional elections partly reflected public reaction to atrocities by ultraleftist terrorists, who regard themselves as Italy's "true" Communists. Renewed outbreaks of terrorist violence are unlikely to help Berlinguer at the polls. Last week, for example, Milan's deputy public prosecutor, Emilio Alessandrini, was assassinated by a group linked to the Red Brigades. He was the third terrorist victim in a month and the 34th in the past 13 months. Protesting his murder, Milan's trade unions called a four-hour work standstill during Alessandrini's funeral...
...code provision adopted in 1977 permitting corporations to be charged with criminal acts; 22 other states allow this. Ford contended that it should not be tried ex post facto on a 1977 law for a car built in 1973 involving an accident in 1978. But the judge bought the prosecutor's argument that the charge was not based on the Pinto design fault, but rather on the fact that Ford had permitted the car "to remain on Indiana highways, knowing Full well its defects." Manufacturers, said the prosecutor, should be "on notice that if they have a defective product...
David Hinden, government prosecutor, agreed to accept a partial verdict, but Axel Kleiboemer, Flood's lawyer, objected. Kleiboemer said the jury's deadlocked situation provided "no indication their disagreement does not affect all counts...