They want one side to be a teacher or prosecutor and the other, Russia, to be a student or defendant.
But jurors refused to believe the teacher after prosecutors said he had targeted the vulnerable teenager to satisfy his "carnal desires" and his actions amounted to a gross breach of trust.
(AP) NEWARK: ABUSE CASE MAY ADVANCE A former day-care teacher suing prosecutors and state officials who charged her with sexually abusing children could see her case go to trial later this year, the woman's lawyer said.
The teacher who prosecutors say was raped at gunpoint by a drunken off-duty police officer last August wept on Friday as she testified that she had feared her attacker would kill her even if she followed his commands to remain silent and keep her eyes closed.
And he gets an extra frisson out of the way that Andy, as Neal's former teacher, knows this prosecutor inside out.
Mattie Pruitt, a teacher, told the prosecutor investigating Shakeem's death: "He used to be well groomed, nice smelling, very clean, hair combed and lotioned.
"I have proven ability as a teacher and as a prosecutor," he said.
SYRACUSE, Nov. 16 — A music teacher charged in what prosecutors had called one of the largest molestation cases in central New York won the latest in a series of legal victories on Friday when a judge threw out his convictions, finding that two jurors had tried inappropriately to sway the others toward guilty verdicts.
As well as members of the military, the clampdown has included policemen, judges, prosecutors, teachers, governers, university deans and journalists.
They include not just soldiers, but also policemen, judges, prosecutors, teachers, governors, university deans and employees in the prime ministry.
