Nation IN BRIEF : FLORIDA : Illness Again Stalls Noriega Drug Trial
Former Panamanian strongman Manuel A. Noriega’s drug and racketeering trial in Miami again was interrupted by illness. A juror became sick during morning cross-examination of a prosecution witness, and U.S. District Judge William M. Hoeveler recessed the trial until today. Last week the trial was interrupted for two days when Noriega’s defense attorney, Frank Rubino, was bedridden with the flu, and an alternate juror, who was later dropped from the panel, suffered a mild heart attack. Twelve jurors and four alternates remain.
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