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Few Precedents. Although presidential authority to pardon a person before he is charged with a crime seems to have been established by precedent, it has rarely been exercised. Most pardons are granted after conviction or after a person has served part of a prison term. Usually they are awarded to...
Rockefeller's prospects were buffeted briefly by a bizarre report, mentioned by Columnist Jack Anderson last week, alleging that Rockefeller money had been used to finance a "standby" group of "toughs" to disrupt the 1972 Democratic National Convention. The shenanigans were supposedly described in papers contained within seven mysterious...
Before the trial is held, Jaworski will have to decide how to treat Nixon, whether as a defense witness, a prosecution witness or defendant. The grand jury that only named Nixon an unindicted co-conspirator because of doubts that a sitting President could be indicted can reconvene at any time...
If the public believes that equal justice is violated by prosecution of the underlings and immunization of the alleged No. 1 conspirator, however, then either the former President should be prosecuted or immunity should be extended to all Watergate defendants now caught up in the criminal justice system.
Says Stanford Criminal Law Professor John Kaplan, a former prosecutor: "I have a strong feeling that it isn't right to behave like a banana republic and hound the ex-leader. But I regret to say I would go ahead and prosecute. It's a very strong case...