Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government declined to prosecute on the ground that the Negroes were guilty only of an insignificant slip of memory. But Cox persisted, and last fall the Negroes were indicted by a state grand jury. The Government countered by arguing that states cannot prosecute alleged federal perjurers. Cox tried a new tack when a federal grand jury began looking into civil rights violations throughout Mississippi. Somehow that jury was persuaded to see things Cox's way. It indicted the Negroes, and then Cox ordered U.S. Attorney Robert E. Hauberg to prepare and sign the indictment...
With tears in his eyes, the towering Mississippi-born Hauberg "most humbly" refused on direct orders of Acting Attorney General Katzenbach. "I do judge you to be in civil contempt," intoned Cox, ordering Hauberg to jail "until you decide to comply." Cox then ordered Katzenbach "to show cause why he should not be adjudged guilty of contempt."* Irreparable Damage. Faced with an unprecedented challenge, the Justice Department last week petitioned the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for a writ of prohibition against Cox's order on the ground that the U.S. Attorney General has sole authority for initiating...
...appellate court, having granted a stay, will now hear Cox's argument...
...judge sees it, Rule 7 (c) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure commands that all federal indictments "shall be signed by the Attorney for the Government." If his judicial superiors agree, Cox would then be protected by Rule 48, which says that the Government can drop indictments only "by leave of court"-in this case, Judge Cox. To argue these subtleties, Cox has enlisted three high-powered Mississippi lawyers, including State Attorney General Joseph T. Patterson...
...case is more than "merely a question of perjury," as Cox puts it. If the indictments go through, says one civil rights worker, "our voting drive will be cut back fantastically. The Justice Department now has about 16 voting registration suits going in the state, and they would be smashed. We couldn't get anyone to testify...