Word: arraigns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Recorder's Court began marathon sessions to arraign hundreds of prisoners herded in from the riot areas. In twelve hours, Judge Robert J. Colombo heard more than 600 not-guilty pleas. To keep the arrested off the streets until the city stopped smoking, bonds were set at $25,000 for suspected looters, $200,000 for suspected snipers. Said the harassed judge to one defendant: "You're nothing but a lousy, thieving looter. It's too bad they didn't shoot...
...Still," he continues, "there is a question whether Israel has made a reasonably sound choice. One possibility, as Mr. Telford Taylor has suggested, would have been to arraign Eichmann in an Israeli court with full opportunity for the prosecution and the accused to present charges and defenses, and then to remit Eichmann to the United Nations for any further action that body might decide to take. Would that course have led merely to a flasco? It is at least clear that the United Nations did not come forward to claim Eichmann after his capture. Neither did Western Germany...