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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Tommaso Buscetta
		He was the star witness in the Maxi Trial that led to almost 350 Mafia members being sent to prison.
		Giovanni Falcone, one of the architects of the Maxi Trial.
		His testimony in the New York Pizza Connection Trial trial in the mid-1980s allowed the conviction of hundreds of mobsters in Italy and the United States, including Gaetano Badalamenti.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tommaso-Buscetta (2726 words)

	Maxi Trial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Giovanni Falcone, one of the architects of the Maxi Trial.
		The Maxi Trial was a criminal trial that took place in Sicily during the mid-1980s that saw hundreds of defendants on trial for a multitude of crimes relating to Mafia activities.
		The trial's primary success, at its very outset, was in holding the Mafia as an organization into account for its activities rather than just its individual members for isolated crimes (this approach was personified in the USA via the RICO Act).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maxi_Trial (1822 words)

	Maxi Brief
		Christopher/landlord at trial: Under the common law rule followed by the Maryland Court of Appeals, when a lease requires a landlord's consent for subletting, and is silent concerning acceptable bases for denying consent, then the landlord may withhold consent for any reason, even an arbitrary and capricious reason.
		Therefore, Christopher's withholding consent was permissible, and the tenants' subletting of the premises constituted a breach of the lease that entitled the landlord to repossession.
		However, the new rule should not be applied to this case if the landlord carries the burden at the trial on remand of proving that he actually knew of and relied upon the common law rule of Jacobs v.
	academic.udayton.edu /legaled/online/class/case15.htm (1247 words)

	Pizza Connection Trial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pizza Connection Trial was one of the largest cases in American history and took place between October 24, 1985 and March 2, 1987.
		The trial centred around a mafia plot to distribute heroin and launder the proceeds using a chain of pizza parlours as a front.
		Mafia turncoat Tommaso Buscetta testified at the trial against his former criminal associates; he had not been part of the Pizza Connection scheme himself, but he had helped establish the Sicilian's presence in the US drug trade in the early 1970s and had been a close friend of many of the defendants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pizza_Connection_Trial (525 words)

	mafia-international - maxitrials
		The Maxi trials were the culmination of years of hard work, judges Giovanni Falcone and Paulo Borselino were just two of the many magistrates that helped put the huge history making, ground breaking trial the Maxi-prochesso together as four hundred and seventy Mafiosi stood trial.
		The Maxi trial took place next to the ucciardone (the Palermo prison) in a bunker specially designed to try four hundred and seventy defendant Most of the crucial evidence came from Tomasso Buscetta the old school Mafiosi captured in Brazil, and extradited back to Italy to face trial for his own crimes.
		The Maxi trial signified a possible turning point in the fight against the Mafia for many Sicilians and gave hope at a time when hope is all that many of the native Sicilians had left.
	glasgowcrew.tripod.com /maxi.html (533 words)

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		Meanwhile, during the maxi, Palermo as a whole took on the appearance of an armed camp as additional police, soldiers, and Carabinieri were assigned to guard its streets.
		Almost before they were over, the maxi-trial in Palermo and a comparable trial of Camorra leaders in Naples were raising the specter of an institutional threat to civil liberties, due both to the large scale of the processes (the sheer number of defendants and charges being tried) and their reliance on pentito testimony.
		One of the speakers was Judge Borsellino who took advantage of the occasion to denounce the ‘dismantling of the pool’ and accuse the state, in dramatic and chilling words, of failing to support the antimafia judicial effort.
	members.lycos.co.uk /ocnewsletter/SGOC0502/Schneiders.html (6044 words)

	Maxi-Aids Debared
		Independent Living Aids (ILA) and one of its principals, Marvin Sandler, eventually sued Maxi-Aids, and we covered the trial of ILA and Marvin Sandler vs. Maxi-Aids and Elliot Zaretsky and his three adult children (Mitchel, Pamela, and Harold) in extensive detail in the March, 1998, issue of the Braille Monitor.
		At the time we were reporting on the outcome of the 1997 trial, the Department of Veterans Affairs was still determining its response to the evidence of misrepresentation on the part of Maxi-Aids uncovered during the VA's investigation.
		The trial transcript in the lawsuit of Independent Living Aids and Marvin Sandler vs. Maxi-Aids and the Zaretskys shows that the jury unanimously found that the false representations were willful and deliberate.
	www.nfb.org /Images/nfb/Publications/bm/bm99/bm991203.htm (6585 words)

	[PHOTO CAPTION: Maxi-Aids logo]
		Judge Arthur D. Spatt, who presided over the trial, affirmed the jury’s verdict and the monetary award and added reimbursement of legal fees, out-of-pocket expenses, and interest and issued a monetary judgment in favor of ILA against Maxi-Aids as a corporation and also against the Zaretskys personally in the amount of $2,779,806.96.
		In response Elliot Zaretsky submitted a sworn and notarized affidavit to the court stating that he had no connection with or relationship to the charity and gratuitously adding that he “is not on the board”--this despite the stationery with his and his family’s names listed as board members.
		Remember that at the original trial in 1997, having sworn to tell the truth under oath, Elliot Zaretsky testified before the jury that his daughter was the majority owner of Maxi-Aids.
	www.nfb.org /Images/nfb/Publications/bm/bm05/bm0505/bm050502.htm (3328 words)

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		In fact, Marvin Sandler told me that at the close of the trial the judge told them to clear all the material from his courtroom in a hurry because he was starting another trial.
		Notwithstanding this obvious proof of copyright, many hours of questioning in the trial were devoted to such issues as whether or not it was reasonable for ILA to copyright such a document.
		In fact, after the completion of the trial, Marvin Sandler reports that he met members of the jury in the hall and thanked them for their conscientious service.
	www.nfbnet.org /files/braille_monitor/BRLM9803.TXT (13857 words)

	Anne-Christine Hoff Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		AVERAGE SINNERS is a novel loosely based on the murder of an Italian journalist, Mino Pecorelli, who in 1979 was shot dead in broad daylight on a busy Roman street and whose murder initially touched off an intense, but brief investigation.
		The case was dropped for political reasons, and only reopened again in 1993, twenty four years later, when informers in the Maxi Trial told authorities that a well-known Italian senator, Giulio Andreotti, had asked Mafia captain Gaetano Badalamenti to arrange the hit as a personal favor.
		Because of his American wife's renewed Catholic faith and her growing friendship with her religion teacher, Father Dante, my protagonist Paolo is always reminded of the moral implication of both decisions, while his distrust of organized religion spurs him to be cynical about both the trial and his wife’s faith.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~achoff/htmldocs/novel2.htm (199 words)

	EUROPE: Mafia 'shifted allegiance to Berlusconi' - BERLUSCONI SILVIO and the SICILIAN MAFIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Antonio Giuffrè is giving testimony in the trial of Marcello Dell'Utri, a former company director in Mr Berlusconi's Fininvest business empire who now represents his centre-right Forza Italia party in the senate, or upper house of parliament.
		Mr Giuffrè, regarded as one of the highest-ranking Mafia defectors of the past 20 years, was arrested last April and began to collaborate with prosecutors in June.
		He has testified in Mr Dell'Utri's trial and an appeals hearing in which prosecutors are seeking to overturn a lower court's verdict that found Giulio Andreotti, the dominant Christian Democratic political leader of the post-1945 era, not guilty of Mafia association.
	www.esmartstart.com /_framed/50g/berlusconi/ft.htm (452 words)

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		Article 304 provides that the length of detention pending trial must not, under any circumstances, exceed two-thirds of the maximum sentence for the offence with which the defendant is charged or the sentence imposed by the first-instance court.
		In deciding to prolong the detention pending trial they invoked the risk of evidence being tampered with, the fact that the accused were dangerous, the complexity of the case and the needs of the investigation, including the need to conduct highly complex banking inquiries.
		It observes, however, that although the special police supervision measure against the applicant was in the instant case imposed during the course of the trial, it was not applied until the trial was over, once the applicant had been acquitted on the ground that "he had not committed the offence".
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord2000/euro2000/documentation/judgments/applno26772-95.htm (15011 words)

	The Mafia and Freemasonry
		Trials are conducted and concluded with convictions only after important crimes, while the mafia enjoys an absolute or almost absolute impunity.
		Only in February 1992 did the Cassazione agree with the theory of the Antimafia Pool of Palermo and the members of the cupola were considered responsible for most of the crimes commited in the 1980s in and around the mafia organization.
		The report on mafia and politics by the Parliamentary Committee is without a doubt original, of undeniable importance, because for the first time the relationship between mafia and institutions is the center of attention, a matter only mentioned in previous reports (14).
	www.freemasonrywatch.org /mafia.html (9185 words)

	Need help to make starforce 3 maxi image. - THE DAEMONS HOME
		Whatever way is best, this would enable everyone to make maxi images of the current protection.
		Maxi images are possible for Safedisc (always the same ISO check), but not for actual Starforce DVD titles (ISO check is different at every gamestart)
		P.S.:The trial of Bushound can only log 32 commands which is (when starting at the right moment) enough for Safedisc.
	www2.daemon-tools.cc /dtcc/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=9459 (527 words)

	Say When
		Bob Byrd was to have testified at the Maxi-Aids trial until serious illness in his family kept him at home.
		Bits of the story came out during the trial, but without Byrd's testimony it was somewhat unclear.
		By the time Harold got onto the stand during the trial, he had a different story to tell.
	www.nfb.org /Images/nfb/Publications/bm/bm98/bm980307.htm (859 words)

	DMU Sport Løbskalender
		Da Quad klassen er udgået i forbindelse med dette stævne, er der åbnet for C Maxi.
		130,- og der opkræves ikke efteranmeldelsesgebyr for C Maxi den 14.
		Også åben for C mini og C maxi.
	www.dmusport.dk /loebskalender/index.php?option=com_list&sport=1&formYear=2007 (179 words)

	CSC,LLC. - Point of View - Italy
		So that you are not left in doubt about the outcome of the Andreotti trial, a process that took six-and-a-half years, you should know what you could never have guessed, that Andreotti was found innocent of being the Mafia’s erstwhile chief political protector in Rome in October of 1999.
		He was on trial for murdering an anti-Mafia magistrate in Reggio Calabria when he told the journalists viewing the court proceedings that the law protecting informers should be abolished because they had become paid witnesses.
		In spite of the fact that he couldn’t be brought to trial, police have let it be known that he regularly corresponds with his family.
	www.chapmanspira.com /pov/Italy/italy.htm (14599 words)

	Luciano Leggio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This time a guilty verdict was reached and Leggio was sentenced to life imprisonment.
		In the Maxi Trial of 1986/1987, Leggio faced charges of helping to run the Corleonesi from behind bars, including the accusation that he ordered the murder of prosecutor Cesare Terranova, who was shot dead in 1979, but he was acquitted of all charges due to lack of evidence.
		Some described him as very vain and he usually appeared in court wearing sunglasses, expensive tailored suits and grandly puffing on a cigar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luciano_Leggio (523 words)

	Howstuffworks "How the Mafia Works"
		Two very prominent government prosecutors who had done a lot of damage to the Mafia were assassinated in bombings.
		The public was outraged, and the government eventually responded with the so-called Maxi trial.
		Large cells in the back of the courtroom held the defendants, who would often scream and threaten witnesses as the trial went on.
	people.howstuffworks.com /mafia7.htm (420 words)

	ITALY'S ANDREOTTI & MAFIA LINKS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		And although the trials of the Eighties concentrated on the military and economic dimensions of the Mafia, a consistent body of evidence about the relationship between the Mafia and politics began to accumulate.
		And it came out at their trial that when Lima was in Sicily he was chauffeured around in their bullet-proof car.
		History may yet assign a high place to the Christian Democrats for maintaining democracy and peace in Italy and presiding over a period of unprecedented prosperity, and it is certainly true that one cannot entirely separate the Andreotti case from the history of the Christian Democrats.
	www.alternatives.com /crime/andrioti.html (7231 words)

	Health News
		Arnold Melman, of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and colleagues are testing the safety of a single penile injection of a gene called maxi-K. The trial was launched in the spring of 2004 at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
		A trial to test effectiveness of the therapy might start by the end of 2005, and eventually about 400 patients will participate in clinical trials before the treatment is submitted for FDA approval.
		Gonzalez-Cadavid is studying the effects of another gene therapy for erectile dysfunction in rats, and plans to begin his own clinical trials within the next 2 to 3 years.
	www.edenmedcenter.org /health/healthinfo/reutershome_top.cfm?fx=article&id=19031 (449 words)

	Interview by Susanna Salafia
		What happened, suddenly, in April 1994, when Miceli, after the hearings at the Bronx trial, closed his business and left Gela is still a mystery.
		It was said that the Carabinieri had defused, just in time, a car bomb parked in front of his home in Gela.
		The reports of the Carabinieri, when they are exposed at the Bronx trial, will reveal what has really happened.
	www.eclectica.org /v1n9/salafia.html (829 words)

	Mafia Fighter Giovanni Falcone - Best of Sicily Magazine
		Later, the success of the "Pizza Connection" trial in the United States owed much to Falcone's efforts in Italy.
		The 1980s became the "Years of Lead" in Palermo as one judge or law-enforcement officer after another was gunned down or blown to pieces by the Mafia --Cesare Terranova, Rocco Chinnici, Emanuele Basile and Giuseppe Montana, to name just a few.
		The case, a parallel to the Pizza Connection trial, drew international attention by bringing the Mafia out into the open, but sadly, most of the 338 criminals convicted served little more than token sentences before being released under Italy's lax penal code, with its extremely high burden of proof.
	www.bestofsicily.com /mag/art48.htm (1067 words)

	ekathimerini.com \| S/E Europe
		This is how, on May 27, Ankara Confidential, referring to a corruption trial involving dozens of doctors and businessmen and hundreds of millions of dollars, closed: “… one can always rely on miracles in Turkey.
		The defendants could be released at the first trial, and the blockade on their assets could be removed.
		In a year or so they may be acquitted on all charges despite more than 50 folders of solid evidence.
	www.ekathimerini.com /4dcgi/news/world_6520611KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/world.asp?fdate=01/07/2003 (723 words)

	Herne Data Systems Ltd. - Download Software
		MAXI Disk for Windows v4.20 (260k bytes; Info...
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	www.herne.com /down.htm (151 words)

	NLS Reference Circular: Assistive Devices for Use with Personal Computers, 2001
		Scans a document into a computer and displays an image of the scanned page at different levels of magnification, highlighting text as it is spoken.
		Determines the appropriate text to speak by analyzing information in the display memory and responding to user input commands.
		Available to purchase or to download in a trial or upgrade version at .
	www.loc.gov /nls/reference/circulars/assistive2001.html (3265 words)

	TNI Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		At the Palermo Trial against Cuntrera and Caruana in 1995, Buscetta declared that Pasquale Cuntrera had told him they were dealing in heroin, and that their supplier was Pippo Bono – at that time unknown to the police – who arranged things in Italy.
		During the trial in Palermo, one of the defendants, the fugitive Alfonso Caruana, turned out to be the central organizer of a network that smuggled eleven metric tons of cocaine to Italy from 1991-94.
		Some of the bugged conversations were later used in the Palermo Maxi Trial against the Sicilian Mafia by judge Falcone: it corroborated the evidence of Buscetta on the structure of Cosa Nostra and its relations with their North-American counterparts.
	www.tni.org /archives/tblick/aruba.htm (17342 words)

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