TO A SPEEDY AND PUBLIC TRIAL: Surprisingly, the right to a publictrial is under attack. When Marion Barry was being tried, the prosecutionattempted to bar Louis Farrakhan and George Stallings from the gallery.This request was based on an allegation that they would send silent and"impermissible messages" to the jurors. The judge initially granted thisrequest. One might argue that the whole point of a public trial is to senda message to all the participants: The message is that the public iswatching; the trial had better be fair.BY AN IMPARTIAL JURY: The government does not even honor the right to trialby an impartial jury. US District Judge Edward Rafeedie is investigatingimproper influence on jurors by US marshals in the Enrique Camarena case.US marshals apparently illegally communicated with jurors duringdeliberations.OF THE STATE AND DISTRICT WHEREIN THE CRIME SHALL HAVE BEEN COMMITTED: Thisis incredible, but Manuel Noriega is being tried so far away from the placewhere he is alleged to have committed crimes that the United States had toinvade another country and overturn a government to get him. Nor is this aunique occurrence; in a matter separate from the Camarena case, JudgeRafeedie was asked to dismiss charges against Mexican gynecologist Dr.Humberto Alvarez Machain on the grounds that the doctor was illegallyabducted from his Guadalajara office in April and turned over to USauthorities.TO BE INFORMED OF THE NATURE AND CAUSE OF THE ACCUSATION: Steve JacksonGames, nearly put out of business by the raid described previously, hasbeen stonewalled by the SS. "For the past month or so these guys have beeninsisting the book wasn't the target of the raid, but they don't say whatthe target was, or why they were critical of the book, or why they won'tgive it back," Steve Jackson says. "They have repeatedly denied we'retargets but don't explain why we've been made victims." Attorneys for SJGtried to find out the basis for the search warrant ...
