Looking past the verdict
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- A mixed verdict on Howard Beach. // Newsweek;1/4/88, Vol. 111 Issue 1, p25
The outcome of the prosecutions of four white teens charged in the death of a black man, Michael Griffith, 23, who was chased onto a busy highway and was killed by a car. After 12 days of deliberations, the jury found three whites--Jon Lester, Scott Kern, and Jason Ladone--guilty of...
- ALABAMA: Jeffco Sets Sewer Hearing. Sigo, Shelly // Bond Buyer;7/19/2012, Vol. 381 Issue 33750, p7
The article reports that Jefferson County, Alabama has formally set its hearing on sewer system rates for July 24, 2012.
- TRAILS DON'T BLAZE THEMSELVES. // Backpacker;May2012, Vol. 40 Issue 4, p75
The article focuses on trails in Woolrich, Pennsylvania.
- Coup people. Stanglin, Douglas // U.S. News & World Report;4/26/93, Vol. 114 Issue 16, p16
Reports the members of the ill-fated August 1991 Soviet coup were greeted as heroes by dozens of supporters outside a Moscow courthouse the week of April 19, 1993. Coup spoiler Boris Yeltsin; Defendants complained of Prosecutor General Valentin Stepankov's tactics that violated their rights;...
- Lawyers: Have wallet, will influence. Barone, M. // U.S. News & World Report;3/19/90, Vol. 108 Issue 11, p28
Examines the importance of tort-law issues around the country which has pitted trial lawyers against business interests and which often splits politicians along party lines. Trial lawyers in California, Texas and Florida play an especially important partisan role; Attempts to set uniform...
- Whatever OJ Simpson trial is, it's certainly not the `trial of the century'. DeCourcy, Ed // New Hampshire Business Review;7/21/95, Vol. 17 Issue 15, p10
Features significant court proceedings that generated interest and media coverage during its trial stage as compared to the trial of football player O.J. Simpson. Conviction of carpenter Bruno Richard Hauptman for the kidnapping and murdering of the infant son of Charles Augustus Lindbergh;...
- Why L.A. may be spared. Tharp, Mike // U.S. News & World Report;2/15/93, Vol. 114 Issue 6, p54
Discusses the possibility of a repeat of the Los Angeles race riot or peace when two new trials begin this month and next. One retrial is for the four white Los Angeles police officers in a federal case alleging civil-rights violations in their beating of black motorist Rodney King, and the...
- Term limit. Gest, Ted // U.S. News & World Report;8/16/93, Vol. 115 Issue 7, p18
Discusses how Los Angeles police Sgt. Stacey Koon and Officer Laurence Powell were sentenced last week for their involvement in the beating of Rodney King, which set off one of history's most destructive riots. Sentences given; How case stirred new debate over sentencing guideline for general...
- Recent developments. // Corporate Legal Times;Mar97, Vol. 7 Issue 64, p6
Focuses on developments in various court cases in the United States. Reasons for the decision in the case, Incorporated Village of Cedarhurst versus Hanover Insurance Company; Information on a New Jersey superior court judge's decision in the case, Raclaur versus Allianz Insurance Company.
- South Africa's chilling ground. // Newsweek;11/28/1988, Vol. 112 Issue 22, p52
Report on the final judgment in a Pretoria court trial that has lasted 340 court days and over 3 years. The case involved top leaders of South Africa's biggest apartheid coalition, the United Democratic Front, who were charged with conspiracy to overthrow the government. Eight were acquitted...
