5. Twelve policemen were subpoenaed by the prosecution
in a futile attempt to destroy image of the besieged
blue
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boy DA Jeffrey
Cummings charged
with massive embezzlement of police funds.
6. A
dramatic announcement was delivered
yesterday by the key witness for the prosecution in the notorious double-murder trial in L.A.'s
Chattersworth District Court, “I've been used by an extra-terrestrial”, said Mr. Alexis Blake, the
defendant, who is reputed to have brutally murdered his two neighbours with a pick-axe on June,
3.
7. The football star double-murder trial has yielded an unexpected acquittal of die defendant
after the less-than-four-hour deliberations by the predominantly black jury.
8. Spectacularly defiant,
Alice Thome, defendant in the six-month judicial marathon, vehemently denied all the charges
brought against her in her testimony during cross-examination.
4. Paraphrase the highlighted parts of sentences using one of the grammatical features under discussion .
1. During die summing up phase Mr. Roederman, who is a DA, used written remarks,
which is unusual for him.
2. In the course of the trial, which has lasted for a year, it is said
that Mr. Dubovik has made numerous allegations against the prosecuting attorney: he
attacked his integrity.
3. Somebody has brought mayhem charges against Mrs. Ludlam, who,
they say, has been trying to make children comply with her demands, and to do so she
burned their fingers with a lamp,
that was so hot that it was red.
4. O.J.Simpson was cleared
— 18 —
of charges that he murdered two people. He is back at his Hollywood mansion now. He is
celebrating his acquittal.