NATION IN BRIEF : FLORIDA : Noriega Trial Set for January, 1991
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A federal judge in Miami set the drug-trafficking trial of ousted Panamanian leader Manuel A. Noriega and four co-defendants for Jan. 28, 1991, and issued a sweeping order on use of classified information. U.S. District Judge William M. Hoeveler’s order could hinder defense attorneys seeking to corroborate their claim that Noriega acted with CIA approval for years. The order requires the defense to obtain the court’s OK before seeing documents marked “Confidential,” “Secret” “Top Secret” or “Sensitive Compartmented Information.”
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