Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complete performance. Prates protested, "We're missing one person here-the orchestra leader." That implied another desperate defense hope: because former President Richard Nixon had been pardoned by Gerald Ford and had then been judged too ill to testify, the jury might find it unfair to convict Nixon...
...Supreme Court has agreed to decide before June whether the mandatory provision makes constitutional the death sentence of one convict, Jesse Fowler. His case appropriately originated in North Carolina, which has one of the stiffest new statutes. It now has by far the nation's largest death-row population. TIME Correspondent Jack White recently visited Fowler and the other condemned inmates...
...clearly the tapes, including some never publicly revealed before, show that Nixon was the increasingly desperate leader of the cover-up strategy. He not only lied to the public but often to the aides who were risking their own freedom to protect him. Some jurors might refuse to convict in the belief that it would be unfair to imprison the aides while Nixon escapes criminal prosecution because of President Ford's pardon. The Nixon on the tapes, in fact, sounds more devious than the men on trial...
Much had happened in the interval. The Viet Nam War had ended for Americans. A comrade-in-arms, described by Alpert's attorney as her lover, had been killed in 1971 as lawmen stormed New York's Attica state prison to quell a convict uprising. Over the years Alpert, a Swarthmore graduate and ardent feminist, concluded that the radical movement was male dominated and sexist. She also tired of life as a fugitive. "I did not want to spend my life hiding out," she told Federal District Judge Milton Pollack. Accompanied by her parents (her father...
...more corruption here than elsewhere. We are going to establish in our civilian sector the same thing that we have in the armed forces, a Committee of Five [who investigate corruption charges]. Even if you do not have absolute proof of the kind you need in [our] courts to convict someone of corruption, if you have enough information you can render a verdict outside the judiciary...