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Last week's hearing could not avoid the bizarre touches that have marred the case from the beginning. Skindiver John Farrar, who recovered Mary Jo's body from the submerged car, turned up with a lawyer who promptly distributed full biographies of himself and his client to reporters. When Dr. Mills claimed that Dinis was to blame for not ordering an immediate autopsy after the accident, Dinis took the stand to testify that he had indeed wanted an autopsy. But, said he, by the time he had decided to order one the day after Mary...
...pages; Farrar, Straus and Giroux
...CITY by Leonard Gardner. 183 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
What, then, if John Farrar, the scuba diver who recovered Mary Jo's body from the bottom of Poucha Pond, were to take the stand to promulgate his theory that the girl probably lived, breathing in an air pocket, for some time after the accident? Under Boyle's strictures, Kennedy's attorneys would not have been permitted to produce expert testimony to challenge Farrar's thesis or his qualifications. Meantime, every news story from Edgartown would recirculate the Farrar version, enveloped this time in the dignifying aura of a legal proceeding...
That trial is traced with disturbing impact in a new book, The Prosecutor, by James Mills (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $5.95). The plot is Kafka in reverse. The prosecutor is a lonely man fighting impossible odds. His key witnesses are afraid to testify. The opposition's maneuvers force him to present his case to the jury like "a movie run too fast, with a lamp too dim and half the frames chopped out." According to Mosley, the case marked the first time in 20 years that Mafia defendants had been brought to trial for murder in New York City...