Word: affidavits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Attorney Charles Garry says Jones was obsessed with a custody fight for a boy he claimed was his own. The child, John, was born in 1972 to Grace Stoen, who with her husband Timothy was one of Jones' top associates. At Jones' behest, Timothy Stoen signed an affidavit declaring that he had personally requested that the child be sired by "the most compassionate, honest and courageous human being the world contains." The Stoens now deny that Jones was the father and won legal custody of the child last year after a court fight. But Jones refused...
...letter that he embezzled nothing from the Bruces. Said he: "Everything that was found on my hands was either given to me by my wife or her brothers, or it was bought by me from her brothers after her death." (Alexandra's brother David denies this claim in an affidavit, filed in Jefferson County...
...Patty Hearst means business. Challenging the bank robbery sentence that she is now serving, Hearst's new Attorney, George C. Martinez, charged that Attorney F. Lee Bailey's "ineffective counsel" reduced her 1976 trial to "a mockery, a farce and a sham." In a nine-page affidavit filed in the San Francisco U.S. District Court...
...espionage agent in the United States." Youngdahl threw out several Government indictments against Lattimore, refused to withdraw from the case when a U.S. Attorney accused him of prejudice. Seethed Youngdahl: "Under my oath to preserve sacred constitutional principles, I can properly do no less than to strike the [Government] affidavit as scandalous...
...into Judge Webster Thayer at the Worcester Golf Club. Thayer had presided over the Sacco-Vanzetti trial where they were found guilty. This made Thayer quite a celebrity; said he to Benchley's friend: "Did you see what I did to those two anarchistic bastards?" Benchley had submitted an affidavit to show that Thayer was something less than an impartial judge...