Word: chattanooga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned down Hoffa's appeal of a 1964 jury-tampering conviction for the second time in three months, it looked as if the string had finally run out. Scarcely 48 hours after the court announced its decision, Federal Judge Frank Wilson ordered Hoffa to appear this week in Chattanooga, Tenn., site of the jury-tampering trial, to begin serving an eight-year prison term. Though Hoffa's resourceful lawyers were expected to seek still another delay, even they were losing heart. Asked if he could keep Jimmy out of jail much longer, one of them replied: "I doubt...
...news to some Chicagoans, but Chicago is one of the cleanest cities in the U.S. So, on a year-round basis, are Riverbank, Calif., Muncie, Ind., Omaha, Neb., Paramus, N.J., Chattanooga and Memphis, Tenn., and Grand Prairie, Texas. But none were quite tidy enough to win the National Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up Bureau's annual Cleanest Town award, subsidized by paint and varnish manufacturers, and presented by Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman in Washington last week. The cleanest town in the U.S.: San Antonio, Texas...
...accepting a bribe from trucking operators, the Government curtly told the judge that he was trying to bribe two of his prospective jurors. Though the judge dismissed the two jurors, that trial eventually ended in a hung jury. Hoffa was next tried on the jury-fixing charge in Chattanooga in 1964. And that time, the Government's star witness was none other than Ed ward Partin, a trusted member of Hoffa's Nashville entourage. The Government had freed Partin from a Louisiana jail in 1962, shielded him from assorted indictments (embezzling, kidnaping, manslaughter), and off he went...
Largely as a result of what Partin reported that Hoffa had said about his juror-buying efforts back in 1962, the Chattanooga jury convicted Hoffa and three aides. Thus the Supreme Court faced a key question: Did the Government so violate Hoffa's constitutional rights by planting a spy in his "quarters and councils" that Partin's evidence should have been suppressed...
...that, Warren approved the use of informers in two related cases. Hoffa Lawyer Z. T. Osborn Jr. was appealing his own conviction (3½ years) for trying to slip $10,000 to one of Hoffa's Chattanooga jurors. In Osborn's case, the informer was Policeman Robert Vick, who had originally been hired by Osborn to investigate Hoffa's Nashville jurors, and who was later asked by Osborn to help bribe a prospective juror. By then, Vick had switched sides, and with approval of two judges, the feds had armed him with a tape recorder into which...