Word: foran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chicago Seven also charged eight policemen with violating demonstrators' rights during the 1968 Democratic national convention. Federal juries have acquitted six, reached no verdict on the seventh, leaving only Patrolman Ramon Andersen, 35, charged with beating a reporter and a college instructor. Last week U.S. Attorney Thomas Foran, unable to find any witnesses to the clubbings but the victims themselves, sought -and received-Justice Department permission to drop the charges...
...rulings. He jailed two lawyers for failing to appear in court, even though they had only helped to prepare the defense. He barred such potentially important defense witnesses as former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and Civil Rights Leader Ralph Abernathy. Before the jury, he praised Chief Prosecutor Thomas Aquinas Foran and put down Defense Attorney Weinglass by consistently mispronouncing his name...
...rebels, though decrying their treatment, exulted in their martyrdom. Rennie Davis offered a challenge to Prosecuting Attorney Thomas Foran. Said Davis: "When I get out I'm going to move right next door to Mr. Foran and I'm going to turn his kids into Viet Cong." Abbie Hoffman's wife Anita proclaimed: "If there wasn't a conspiracy before, there, sure as hell is one now." As a practical matter, however, the radical movement has lost-at least for the time being-some of its shrewdest and most daring leaders. Thus the violent antiwar left...
Sample Insurgents. "If the new Administration prosecutes the demonstrators," Clark said, "it will be a clear sign of a hard-line crackdown" on dissent. Shortly thereafter, Richard Nixon's new Attorney General, John Mitchell, authorized the U.S. Attorney in Chicago, Thomas Foran, to add demonstration leaders to the grand jury's agenda. In March, the grand jury indicted a balanced ticket: eight policemen, eight radical ralliers...
Under the blurry federal conspiracy doctrine, Foran had to show only that before the defendants got to Chicago they had knowingly agreed to incite riots, and that after they got there one of them had done something about it. The star prosecution witnesses were four undercover agents, who said that the Seven had planned violence before the convention, and that several threw rocks at police cars, purchased materials for fire and stink bombs, and made inflammatory speeches urging the crowds to march without permits and "kill the pigs...