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Bernstein spoke out strongly against administration charges that the Post has used hearsay evidence and guilt by association in order to "convict" accused wrong-doers before they have gone to trial...
...intelligence sources contended that the documents outlining the purported plot were circulated in Mexico by one Richard Alexander Zander, 31, an ex-convict and accused kidnaper who fled the U.S. last month while on parole from McNeil Island federal penitentiary in Washington State, where he had served time for transporting stolen goods. A U.S. court has issued a warrant for his arrest as a fugitive from justice...
...That," Perdue told The Crimson last week, "demonstrates exactly why the government spent a million dollars the government spent a million dollars trying to convict us: The Vietnam Veterans Against the War was undoubtedly the most credible anti-war, movement-type organization...
Arsenic and Old Lace. Frank Capra directs. Starring Gregory Peck, Peter Lorry and someone who looks like Boris Karloff. About a family of crazies--the aunts kill lonely old men for charity, the convict escapee nephew kills for profit, the son thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt. And they all run around in a chaotic mess of slamming doors and confused criminality. Brattle Theatre...
Such grants of immunity raise embarrassing moral questions, since they permit a wrongdoer to escape punishment by the simple expedient of informing on his associates. Yet legal authorities have traditionally accepted the pragmatic necessity of letting one possible criminal go free in order to catch and convict others, and the idea was formally put into law by the British Parliament in 1710. In the U.S., immunity was often granted unofficially or by various local laws, and the Supreme Court in 1896 gave its first complete approval to a federal immunity statute. The underlying legal theory is that when a witness...