Word: barkers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until after it happened. Yet the weight of evidence-many memos and recalled conversations-counted against him. Last week, after a little more than three hours' deliberation, the jury found him guilty of conspiracy and three counts of perjury. The other, lesser defendants-G. Gordon Liddy, Bernard L. Barker and Eugenic Martinez-were also convicted of conspiracy...
Like Ehrlichman, the other three conspirators had been stripped of a plausible defense because they could not plead national security. In an eloquent final argument for Barker and Martinez, Attorney Daniel Schultz portrayed them as "little men" who had been victimized by their cynical and sophisticated superiors in Washington. They had been led to believe that they were acting on the highest patriotic principles. Countered Merrill: "People cannot be allowed to violate the law because they are told it is right. That's not patriotism. It's anarchy-the beginning of a police state...
...Young and Egil Krogh, another former Nixon assistant who has pleaded guilty. Convicted Watergate Conspirators E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy have admitted managing the operation in the field. Liddy is on trial with Ehrlichman for conspiring to violate Fielding's civil rights, as are Bernard Barker and Eugenic Martinez, who made the actual entry...
...Humphrey campaign, exceeding the legal limit of $5,000 for individual contributions that was in effect until April 7, 1972. Andreas also made a $25,000 donation to the Nixon campaign-and the cash turned up in the Miami bank account of Convicted Watergate Burglar Bernard L. Barker...
June 1 7. On the second anniversary of the Watergate breakin, Ehrlichman, Colson and White House Plumbers G. Gordon Liddy, Bernard Barker, Eugenio Martinez and Felipe DeDiego are due to go on trial for conspiracy in the Ellsberg burglary...