Word: frameup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...affair, marred by an inept defense and an inexperienced judge in a lynchlike atmosphere. Crucial facts, such as fixing the time of death, were botched by his attorney. The case against him, Smith suggests, was founded on shoddy police investigatory work and was somewhat in the nature of a frameup. The actual bases of his many appeals for a rehearing and retrial, which have kept him alive these many years, involve improper trial procedures and the applicability of the Supreme Court rulings regarding forced confession and post-indictment police interrogations...
...answer to a question after the speech in the Lowell House Junior Common Room, Lamont called the Gulf of Tonkin incident "one of the most improbable tales I've heard in several years." He charged that the affair was really "just a frameup by the military designed to make the United States more involved in Vietnam...