The Nation - News from June 15, 1988
The judge in the Iran-Contra conspiracy case rejected the prosecution’s suggestion that former White House aides Oliver L. North and John M. Poindexter be tried in the same courtroom before two juries. U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell said the procedure proposed by independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh was too cumbersome and likely to violate the defendants’ constitutional rights. Walsh made the proposal last week after Gesell ordered four separate trials for North, a fired National Security Council aide; Poindexter, President Reagan’s former national security adviser; and arms dealers Albert A. Hakim and Richard V. Secord.
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