Word: bress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move the entire trial temporarily to California or to take Nixon's testimony by closed-circuit television or on video tape were under consideration, assuming that he recovers sufficiently for any questioning at all. Defendant Robert Mardian was seeking a separate, later trial because his chief lawyer, David Bress, was undergoing tests for an undetermined throat ailment...
Pure As Snow. In opening statements, attorneys for Ehrlichman, Mardian and Parkinson made no attempt to deny that there had been a high-level White House coverup. Instead, they argued variously that their clients had been duped by those above them or that their Watergate involvement was insignificant. David Bress, the attorney for Mardian, claimed that Mitchell, 61, had developed "a sort of father-and-son relationship with Mardian," who is 51. Thus Mardian, former head of the Justice Department's Internal Security Division, was misled by Mitchell. "Mardian was as pure as a driven snow," Bress argued...