Word: criminalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Where did Patty Hearst's defense go wrong? Or did it go wrong at all-since the defendant might still be exonerated on appeal? Not surprisingly, lawyers and psychiatrists interviewed by TIME disagreed on most points-except one. Many believed that the trial could have established some important precedents...
Other lawyers faulted the defense on different counts. Sam Dash, former majority counsel to the Senate Watergate committee and now head of Georgetown University's Criminal Law Institute, argued that Bailey probably erred seriously when he let Patty take the Fifth Amendment 42 times. Until then, said Dash, "she...
Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz believes that the verdict may well be reversed, "primarily on the ground that the judge improperly let in a great deal of evidence of [Patty's] attitude and statements after the crime." Said Dershowitz: "The jury convicted her not for what she did at...
The plot is necessarily familiar. Routinely assigned to a minor crime story, a break-in at the Democratic National Committee Headquarters in the Watergate complex one night in June 1972, Woodward and Bernstein soon find they have landed the assignment of the century. Cross-checking lists of G.O.P. contributors, rosters...
Bickel argued and won the Pentagon papers case, which resulted in the landmark decision on secrets and leaks. The Supreme Court decided, in Bickel's words, that "if a newspaper had got hold of those documents without itself participating in a theft of them, although somebody else might to...