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Last week Police Court Judge Benjamin Shobe ordered another jury to acquit Fineman and Hicks. The prosecution, said Shobe, had failed to prove that they had disturbed the meeting. Still, the case prompted a bit of soul-searching...
...Orleans' International Trade Mart, Shaw was accused by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison of conspiring with Lee Harvey Oswald to kill J.F.K. After many months of noisy proceedings-during which Garrison produced a motley assortment of informants and witnesses-the jury took less than an hour to acquit Shaw in March 1969. Garrison then tried to prosecute Shaw for perjury but was stymied by the federal courts...
...well be outrun by events. But if Nixon refuses to yield to the rising clamor for his resignation, the months-long constitutional process seemed more likely than ever before to lead to his removal. Even staunch Nixon supporters found it hard to name 34 U.S. Senators who would surely acquit him of impeachment charges and thus keep him in office...
...think it could be argued that Solomon should emphasize Azdak's sneering sardonicism less, especially in the scenes before the last, and be more simply sincere at least in his initial revulsion at mistakenly helping the grand duke escape and in his questions to the defendants he plans to acquit. But he turns in a virtuoso performance, and the most important thing shines through it: Brecht's call to action, for another Azdakian era of disorder at the end of which Azdak won't have to apologize for not being a hero or address his Ironshirted attackers as "Fellow dogs...
...legal profession that has, however belatedly and at first by a narrow edge, finally become most aroused about the transgressions against law and the Constitution that make up the dismal scandal. While the profession has moved forcefully through such men as Sirica, Cox and Richardson to acquit itself, it is still on trial, and whether justice will finally prevail is still in doubt...