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  Person of interest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Person of interest is a phrase used by law enforcement when announcing the name of someone involved in a criminal investigation who has not yet been arrested or formally accused of a crime.
Hatfill, who has lost his professional reputation and employment prospects as a consequence of being publicly identified, alleges that the Justice Department and the FBI used the phrase as an excuse to implicate him personally, without commencing legal proceedings, to divert media attention from their own failure to charge a suspect for the attacks.
The department did not intend to cause any harm to Hatfill when it described him as a person of interest, Assistant Attorney General Daniel Bryant said in one of the letters.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Person_of_interest   (445 words)

  
 AJR - Rethinking “Person of Interest”   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This "person of interest" description is fraught with much too much innuendo and way too little clarity for me to even consider embracing it.
"Person of interest" is absolutely not a euphemism for "suspect," and I know of no agency anywhere where its legal counsel endorses the usage.
I realize some law enforcement agencies (mis)use the "person of interest" description, but it's up to the journalists and talents to make the decision to use it or not.
www.ajr.org /article_printable.asp?id=4091   (261 words)

  
 Worldandnation: 'Person of interest' label harms innocent, critics say
The term "person of interest" has worked its way into the national lexicon in recent years and has been used in several high-profile cases - the government's investigation into the deadly anthrax attacks, for example.
Clawson says the term "person of interest" is partly to blame for Hatfill's situation.
And that's the problem, said Sullivan, the "person of interest" in the Van Dusen case.
www.sptimes.com /2004/02/16/Worldandnation/_Person_of_interest__.shtml   (1105 words)

  
 “Person of interest” in physician's murder released - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
The Beaver County man who has been called a “person of interest” in the slaying of a millionaire Mercer County physician will be released from jail today.
Bradford, of Center, has been labeled a “person of interest” in the May 13 shooting death of Dr. Gulam Moonda, 69, of Hermitage.
He was labeled a “person of interest” by the Ohio State Highway Patrol because of his relationship with Moonda’s wife, Donna.
pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/trib/newssummary/s_397028.html   (285 words)

  
 Mail Tribune News - `Person of interest' named
RUCH -- Police named a "person of interest" for the first time Monday in the case of a teenage girl who disappeared more than two years ago.
Billy Frank Simmons, 18, of Ruch, was the last known person to see Kaelin Glazier before she disappeared, and he has become the focus for the investigation, said Jackson County Sheriff's Lt. Dewey Patten.
Patten said that Simmons has always been a "person of interest" because he was the last known person to see Kaelin.
www.mailtribune.com /archive/99/jan99/11999n1.htm   (844 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: The Pursuit of Steven Hatfill
Before he was dubbed "a person of interest" in the case, Hatfill had been part of a tight circle of U.S. government officials and consultants working to counter the global bioterror threat.
That person fits the FBI profile in most respects." She went on to describe the suspect's background, insider status in the bioweapons community, anger at the government and connection to the United Nations.
"A person of interest," he said, "is someone who comes into being when the government is under intense political pressure to solve a crime but can't do so, either because the crime is too difficult to solve or because the authorities are proceeding in what can mildly be called a wrongheaded manner.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A49717-2003Sep9?language=printer   (7469 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Proof of 'person of interest' sought   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Steven Hatfill is 'a person of interest' in the anthrax investigation according to the Justice Department but has not been charged.
A subject is defined as "a person whose conduct is within the scope" of a grand jury probe.
A target is "a person as to whom the prosecutor or the grand jury has substantial evidence linking him or her to the commission of a crime."
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2002-09-18-anthrax_x.htm   (550 words)

  
 CHP -- CHP Seeking Person of Interest
This individual is a person of interest in the December 21, 2005 death of CHP Officer Erick Manny.
Officer Manny was killed as he initiated a pursuit of a fl Acura RSX at the Grapevine exit of Interstate 5.
The CHP is looking for the vehicle and a suspect and would like to talk to a person matching this description, as he may have information on the case.
www.chp.ca.gov /html/poi.html   (78 words)

  
 The Gang That Can’t Shoot Straight by Jim Grichar
Various outside groups, some of which may have had political connections, began expressing in public and on the internet that some person or persons with skills in handling and processing anthrax into a weapons grade material had to be the real suspect or suspects.
Eventually, because of direct leaks from FBI officials or special agents, leaks from people interviewed by the FBI, leaks by colleagues or indirect leaks from Congress or Congressional staff that were briefed on the investigation’s progress by the FBI, the name of Steven J. Hatfill reached the public.
Since last summer, Hatfill, and a person who is acting as his spokesman, have taken to television to put out his side of the story.
www.lewrockwell.com /grichar/grichar22.html   (1440 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - 'Person of Interest' of Interest of Late - U.S. & World
Perhaps the country's best-known "person of interest" these days is Steven Hatfill, the scientist being investigated by the FBI in relation to last year's anthrax attacks.
In another case, Omaha, Neb., FBI agent Jim Bogner described Luke Helder of Pine Island, Minn., as a "person of interest" earlier this year when Helder was arrested for a string of pipe bombings.
As far back as 1986, Ernest W. "Bill" McLean was called a "person of interest" when he was arrested in connection with the Green River killings, a string of murders in Washington state.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,62006,00.html   (880 words)

  
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Now officials have named 37-year-old William Ashby a person of interest in that case.
Now the man linked to murders in at least three states is a person of interest in Cumberland Gap.
Sheriff Ray says Ashby is also a person of interest in two murders in Palm Beach, Florida.
www.firstcoastnews.com /news/usworld/news-article.aspx?storyid=66198   (499 words)

  
 KATV Channel 7 - Person of Interest in Crowder Case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Authorities now have a person of interest in the case, stopping short of calling the person a suspect.
Police say the owner of a Toyota pick-up truck that had been seen in the area on the morning of Crowder’s disappearance is the person of interest.
They are also waiting to determine if this person of interest could become a suspect.
www.katv.com /news/stories/0906/358845.html   (282 words)

  
 Person Memory Interest Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Person Memory Interest Group (PMIG) is an informal organization whose sole purpose is to hold a 2-day scientific conference before the annual
Its history began with a meeting of five researchers in Columbus, Ohio in February 1977, to discuss then-new developments in the study of person perception, in the context of related theories in cognitive psychology.
Currently, the term "person memory" in the group's name is a historical relic rather than a reflection of a narrow topical interest.
www.indiana.edu /~soccog/pmig.html   (563 words)

  
 Md. Pond Produces No Anthrax Microbes
The FBI's interest in the Frederick forest first surfaced publicly last December when agents conducted a search of ponds and the forest, about eight miles from the Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick.
The search of the area was prompted by a tip that Steven J. Hatfill, a bioterrorism expert who once worked as a researcher at the institute, had talked hypothetically about how he might dispose of contaminated materials in the water.
Authorities have identified him as a "person of interest" in the investigation.
www.ph.ucla.edu /epi/bioter/mdpondnoanthrax.html   (638 words)

  
 Husband is called the only 'person of interest' in slayings - The Boston Globe
He is the only ''person of interest" who has been named by the Middlesex district attorney's office, but the district attorney says he is not necessarily the only one.
Eleven days after Hopkinton police found Rachel Entwistle and her 9-month-old daughter, Lillian, dead of gunshot wounds, a spokeswoman for the Middlesex district attorney said yesterday that Neil Entwistle, the husband and father of the victims, remains the only ''person of interest" in the case.
Emily LaGrassa, spokeswoman for District Attorney Martha Coakley, said the 27-year-old Entwistle, who flew to his native England the weekend of the slayings, is a person of interest, someone ''we think has relevant information into the matter we're investigating" and should be questioned.
www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/02/03/husband_is_called_the_only_person_of_interest_in_slayings   (617 words)

  
 "Person Of Interest" In Rape Of Miami Student   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Oxford Police say they've interviewed a "person of interest" following the alleged rape and robbery of a Miami student in her off-campus home.
Police have not named the "person of interest," saying they've interviewed that person on two separate occasions.
Evidence has been submitted to a lab which will either eliminate the "person of interest" or make the person a suspect, police said.
www.wcpo.com /news/2006/local/01/13/person.html   (346 words)

  
 CNN.com - Police find Idaho 'person of interest' - May 18, 2005
Robert Roy Lutner is a "person of interest" in the slayings.
Lutner is not a suspect in the slayings in Coeur d'Alene, said Wolfinger, a member of the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department.
"He is a person of interest because we know he was here at the residence on Sunday evening," he said.
www.cnn.com /2005/US/05/18/idaho.amber/index.html   (646 words)

  
 Jennifer Kesse - Please Help Find Her
Detectives aren't even sure if the person of interest is a man or a woman.
Over the weekend, Orlando police released a picture of a person of interest in the case.
A surveillance camera captured the image of the man walking near the spot at the Huntington on the Green apartments on Americana and Texas where Jennifer's car was left.
jenniferkesse.com /person-of-interest.htm   (886 words)

  
 kdka.com - "Person of Interest" in Doctor's Murder Linked to Widow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
(KDKA) Pittsburgh Today police identified a Beaver County man as a "person of interest" in the May 13th murder investigation of Dr. Gulam Moonda; and late this afternoon, KDKA obtained court documents linking the man with the doctor's widow.
Ten days after someone gunned down the Mercer County doctor along the Ohio Turnpike, investigators have identified Damian Bradford, 23, of Monaca, as a "person of interest" in the case.
According to the affidavit of probable cause, a confidential informant told police that Bradford was in a drug rehabilitation program with Donna Moonda, who plead no contest to stealing fentanyl from a hospital where she worked.
kdka.com /local/local_story_143154232.html   (398 words)

  
 Police Seek 'Person Of Interest' In Missing Girl Case - News
Investigators went door to door in Lunsford's neighborhood Tuesday, showing pictures that are believed to be a man they officially describe as "a person of interest." They would not describe the person any further, other than to say he's wanted for questioning and he is not a direct relative of Lunsford's.
At an afternoon news conference, Dawsey said the person in question is originally from Citrus County and he is known by Lunsford's neighbors.
He said they identified a geographic area where the person is believed to live.
www.wesh.com /news/4287442/detail.html   (619 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - Cops Make Arrest in BTK Probe - U.S. & World
The person of interest, who works in the code enforcement department for Park City, graduated from Wichita State University (search) in 1979 with a degree in administrative justice.
Furthermore, one missive from the BTK killer, in which one of the murders was described, included a variation on a poem entitled "Oh Death." The poem was on the syllabus in a class taught by Wichita State professor P.J. Wyatt, and authorities believe the person of interest took a class from Wyatt.
In an interview during On the Record With Greta Van Susteren, Gary Vandusen, a neighbor of the person of interest, was surprised to learn of the recent developments.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,148794,00.html   (979 words)

  
 cbs4denver.com - Manhunt On For 'Person Of Interest' In Murder
Manhunt On For 'Person Of Interest' In Murder
Officers set-up checkpoints and in one neighborhood west of the Royal Gorge and were searching cars for the person of interest.
James Hiltz was being called a person of interest in the murder of a 16-year-old girl in Fremont County on Tuesday.
cbs4denver.com /topstories/local_story_228094525.html   (188 words)

  
 kdka.com - "Person of Interest" Named in Doctor's Murder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Troopers with the Ohio State Highway Patrol are calling Damian Bradford, 23, of Monaca, a "person of interest in the investigation of the murder of Dr. Gulam Moonda"
While no suspects have been named at this time, troopers with the Ohio State Highway Patrol are calling a Beaver County man questioned in the case a person of interest.
Damian Bradford, 23, of Monaca is being held in the Beaver County Jail on $50,000 straight bond for drug charges and a probation violation.
kdka.com /topstories/local_story_138161300.html   (451 words)

  
 CNN.com - Anthrax 'person of interest' sues Ashcroft, FBI - Aug. 26, 2003
Steven Hatfill, the former U.S. Army bioweapons scientist named a "person of interest" in the 2001 anthrax attacks, filed suit Tuesday against Attorney General John Ashcroft, the Justice Department and FBI saying his constitutional rights were violated.
Although officials have said they were looking at a list of about 20 people in the case, only Hatfill has been named as a "person of interest." No suspects have been named in the case, and no one has been arrested.
He was fired last September from a position at Louisiana State University, where he was to help train people who would be first responders in the case of a bioterrorism attack.
www.cnn.com /2003/LAW/08/26/hatfill.lawsuit   (588 words)

  
 Macsmind - News, Conservative Commentary and Common Sense: Rockefeller did you "teller?"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
I'm trying to confirm this information, but several sources are telling me today that some investigators working on the NSA leak probe believe that Senator Jay Rockefeller may have been a little more than "concerned" about NSA.
In fact, he may just be the leaker of the program to the NY Times, and is now being considered a "significant person of interest" in the probe.
What I'm told that investigatiors have locked into is this fact that other pundits have identified, that Senator Rockefeller had stated that he went to to great lengths to lock away his memo of concern (in a safe) so that not even other close members of the Senate knew about it.
macsmind.blogspot.com /2006/01/rockefeller-did-you-teller.html   (464 words)

  
 Hillsborough: 'Person of interest' named in slaying case
Hillsborough: 'Person of interest' named in slaying case
TAMPA - Tampa police named a "person of interest" Monday in their investigation of a 26-year-old man found dead along the Courtney Campbell Parkway on March 15.
Homicide detectives spent the evening talking to Dominic A. Coretto, 35, who they say was living at a Clearwater address where Larry Paul Sanders II was violently beaten in the head.
sptimes.com /2005/03/22/Hillsborough/_Person_of_interest__.shtml   (332 words)

  
 Highway Watch nabs “person of interest”
Highway Watch ISAC has announced that a “person of interest” allegedly associated with suspicious incidents involving fuel tanker trucks in Florida has been located and interviewed by law enforcement officials.
This was done thanks in part to numerous reports from the highway community in response to a Highway Watch request for information.
There is no known terrorist activity associated with the person of interest, Highway Watch said.
fleetowner.com /news/highway_watch_tanker_truck_florida_011806   (76 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > San Diego Padres -- Bochy person of interest, but no longer Cubs' focus
Padres General Manager Kevin Towers said he and CEO Sandy Alderson told manager Bruce Bochy on Wednesday that other clubs have interest in hiring Bochy and that Bochy is free to talk to them.
Cubs GM Jim Hendry said Thursday he was expecting to meet with Bochy soon, but according to Chicago sources, he shifted yesterday after being told by upper management he can't go with Bochy because Piniella and Girardi, a former Cub, resonate more with the team's fan base.
Towers said more than one club has interest in Bochy but declined to say whether the Giants are one of those clubs.
www.uniontrib.com /sports/padres/20061014-9999-1s14padres.html   (568 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Person Of Interest (Intrigue): Books: Debra Webb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
She is, therefore, dismayed to learn that Hennessey is the agent who will assume Maddox's identity and that she must work closely w/ him during his recuperation to provide detailed information about Maddox's personal features, mannerisms, and his affair w/ her.
Elizabeth is just coming to terms w/ the tragic conclusion of a complex relationship w/ Maddox and isn't certain she wants to get involved w/ another man, especially not one in such a dangerous line of work.
Hennessey is definitely interested in Elizabeth, but knows that her past and his reputation as a love 'em and leave 'em ladies' man are not in his favor.
www.amazon.com /Person-Interest-Intrigue-Debra-Webb/dp/0373228910   (1420 words)

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