Beginning on Tuesday, in statements to reporters and on black radio stations, Mr. Campbell, who is black, accused the F.B.I. of conducting a racially motivated "inquisition" into his personal and official conduct, questioning his friends, examining his gambling trips and leaking information to Atlanta reporters.
Standing over Hiss is Robert E. Stripling, committee investigator, who conducted the questioning.
Saymendy Lloyd, mother of a ninth-grader at McKinley, said she was arrested for disorderly conduct after questioning the student's arrest.
Where it was first alleged in an action for libel that the defendant had attacked the solvency of the plaintiff, and by amendment that he had assailed the plaintiff's integrity in his personal conduct without questioning his solvency, this was held to be a new cause of action.
Concerns that a hearing might degenerate into a series of attacks could be allayed by following the advice of Ron Klain, the chief counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee during the 1991 confirmation hearings of Justice Clarence Thomas, who suggested tapping independent outside counsel to conduct public questioning.
Conducting the questioning on Dec. 4, 2002, was Steven M. Greenspan of Day, Berry & Howard, who was representing Pinnacle.
Preventing foolish (rather than compelled) confessions is likewise the only conceivable basis for the rules that courts must exclude any confession elicited by questioning conducted, without interruption, after the suspect has indicated a desire to stand on his right to remain silent or initiated by police after the suspect has expressed a desire to have counsel present.
What law enforcement conduct is permissible during questioning?
Mr. Liu, 46, has not been accused of wrongdoing, but court documents have left little doubt that prosecutors have been questioning his conduct.
