Word: camden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, Attorney General William Saxbe, who has been brooding for some time about the Justice Department's poor performance in "political" cases, appointed a task force to study the problem. As one department aide explained: "You name it-the Berrigans, the Gainesville trial, the Camden thing-we blew all of them, and more...
...then-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew berated the head of the Legal Service Program over a suit brought by a local agency against the city of Camden, N.J., to halt construction work on a number of urban renewal projects. Agnew criticized the right of poor people to use OEO-paid lawyers to sue elected officials...
Leading the team are Sociologist Jay Schulman and his principal aide, Psychologist Richard Christie, who have run up a short but impressive trial record. Consultants in three previous trials of radical defendants (the Harrisburg Seven, the Camden 28, the Gainesville Eight), the jury-selection specialists have helped pick 34 jurors who voted for acquittal. Their two misses were the jurors who held out for conviction and forced a hung jury in Harrisburg...
...latest in a long series of cases in which the Government has been notably unsuccessful in prosecuting black and white extremists. The abortive conclusion of the Chicago Seven trial in 1970, the acquittal of Bobby Scale in the Rackley case in 1971, and the acquittal of 17 of the Camden 28 in the spring of 1973-all represented prolonged, expensive Government prosecutions gone awry. In many instances, the Government case was weak...
...their hokey pregame shows. The paychecks stopped when the last-place team went broke and only resumed when the World Hockey Association stepped in to keep the team skating. Then the Blades were evicted from Madison Square Garden and forced to relocate in Cherry Hill, N.J., a suburb of Camden, as the Jersey Knights...