Word: alibis
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...Another unnamed informant claimed that Gargan indeed agreed to take responsibility for the accident, but that Kennedy decided the next morning that "the alibi either couldn't work or he couldn't live with it." The Senator also denies this report...
When the scandal began to be uncovered in 1973, Connally, according to the indictment, decided to cook up an alibi with Jacobsen: the pair agreed to testify under oath that although Jacobsen had offered the money to Connally, the Treasury chief had refused to take it. Whereupon, the story went, Jacobsen put the cash in a safe-deposit box in a bank in Austin. To make the alibi stick, the prosecution believes, Connally gave Jacobsen $10,000 out of his own pocket to place...
...town, where under assumed names they set up households, open charge accounts and join local bowling teams. Only after Harry Künt is initiated into the tunnel club does he learn that the cons plan to rob the town banks, using their ostensible confinement in prison as an alibi...
...unable to pay for one. His interrogation came before the Miranda decision. His trial came afterward, and none of his statements at the time of arrest were introduced. But damaging evidence came from a witness who, Tucker had told his police questioners, was a friend who would corroborate his alibi. Tucker's attorneys argued that the name of the witness had been obtained as the "fruit" of the improper interrogation and so should be barred...
...FIRST fairy stories were published by Charles Perrault in 1698. He pretended that they were children's entertainment while, in reality, they were meant to be read at upper class Parisian salons. The Christian Church condemned such threatening flirtations with the occult, and this disguise provided a strategic alibi. Perrault's printed stories spread a new form of popular literature, long confined by oral tradition; until his time, printed literature usually included only Scripture and classical works. But readers treated fairy tales apologetically, so when the novel emerged a century later--and Science began to dictate reality--fantasy was forced...