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"A killer deal: Be a star witness, escape execution"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this interesting article from the Washinton Times.  Here is how it gets started: Not long after Timothy Heaphy was nominated to be U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia, he filled out a routine Senate questionnaire listing the 10 most-significant cases of his career as a prosecutor and defense lawyer. Along with high-profile cases such as representing former Olympic gold-medalist sprinter Tim Montgomery and prosecuting Sidney Jackson, the so-called "Capitol Hill slasher," Mr. Heaphy mentioned a name few if anyone in the U.S. Senate likely knew: Oscar Veal. But to Mr. Heaphy, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, and to a handful of investigators and prosecutors, Veal was largely responsible for dismantling the most violent drug organization that Washington has ever seen...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 21, 2011 (boomark / email).