Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hounded Richard Nixon out of office in order to upset the mandate of the 1972 vote and subvert what it believes to be the foundations of the Republic. On the other hand, suppose the House fails to impeach, or the Senate, judging a House-voted impeachment, fails to convict. With equal certainty that would leave a major segment of the constituency equally embittered and unreconciled, convinced that the Congress had placed political expediency above its duty. Does either outcome hold the slightest promise of domestic tranquillity...
Watergate Conspirator Liddy, who had participated in the raid as an assistant district attorney, is not the first convict to try writing his way to rehabilitation - or at least to use writing as a means of passing prison time constructively. As a participant in a weekly workshop at the federal prison on Terminal Island in Los Angeles Harbor, Liddy is not even unique in his fame. Mobster Scion Bill Bonanno, central character in Gay Talese's Honor Thy Father, was also a workshop student until his parole last week, after serving three years for a stolen credit card scheme...
Still there is little doubt that continuing news stories about Watergate developments could have an impact on the trials. A recent Columbia University study, for instance, found that a mock panel of jurors exposed to prejudicial news stories was far more likely to convict than were jurors who had read only carefully neutral articles. Social Psychologist Alice Padawer-Singer, a co-director of the study, concluded that thorough questioning of potential jurors is critical to obtaining an impartial trial. The process not only eliminates most prejudiced candidates, she reports, but "sensitizes chosen jurors to all aspects of the case." That...
Each Dawn I Die [1939]. Cagney as a framed reporter who becomes a hardened convict. Also starring George Raft. Ch. 56, 11:30 p.m. B/W, 2 hours...
What can now be done by the people of the U.S. to clear up this intolerable mess? First the massive campaign to impeach and convict Nixon of high crimes and misdemeanors must be increased until he is forced to resign or driven from public office. Second, a commission of outstanding citizens should be appointed by the Congress which is to be elected in November 1974, to thoroughly investigate and expose the crimes committed by Nixon's four immediate predecessors...