71. Federal prosecutors have to date charged four Algerians with taking part but they remain uncertain what was targeted. 72. Federal prosecutors often have more leeway in pursuing civil rights charges in such shootings. 73. Federal prosecutors would have jurisdiction over such a case because the U.S. government funnels millions of dollars in grants to public and private universities each year. 74. Federal prosecutors already have authority to prosecute hate crimes involving race, religion or ethnicity. 75. Federal prosecutors have five weeks to prepare their response to the defense motions. 76. Federal prosecutors have had LAX in their sights as a possible target for some time. 77. Eventually a special prosecutor had to be appointed. 78. Federal prosecutors had Gotti transferred to the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta in hopes he would testify. 79. Federal prosecutors have to option may to try indicting him on additional charges if they assemble evidence of a broader conspiracy. 80. For six weeks, police and Manhattan prosecutors had reason to believe that Pasquale Coppola was so morbidly obsessed with his estranged wife that he might kill her. |