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Attorney General Griffin Bell is opposed to the section permitting a witness to bring a lawyer, arguing that this "would mean two trials instead of one," but he is on record as favoring grand jury reform in principle. So are the American Bar Association and American Law Institute. Indeed, some trial lawyers have called for the abolition of grand juries as outmoded and superfluous. That would involve repealing the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of a grand jury's consideration before indictment, however, and no one has dared to tamper with the Bill of Rights in nearly 200 years...
...prospect that Ray could be shot dead while at large deeply worried national leaders. According to a Justice Department source, Jimmy Carter and Attorney General Griffin Bell were "terrified" that a prison guard or a local deputy might spot Ray and kill him. If that happened, both the President and the Attorney General realize, there would be no way to convince the conspiracy theorists?whose ranks would certainly swell?that Ray had been anything other than a pawn manipulated by the real killers of Martin Luther King...
Coming back to New York for this assignment, Skow found that the leisurely lunches he remembered had been replaced by running lunches. After finishing his story, Skow joined some TIME staffers who spend their midday jogging in nearby Central Park. Maps Researcher Nancy Griffin charts the course. Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison, who interviewed joggers for this piece, is also part of the noon platoon. What makes Harbison run? Says she: "It's part masochism, part hedonism and part narcissism. Running hurts; but after you run, you feel good and so you look good...
Business Lobbying. Griffin Bell has had three chances to observe the snail's-pace process: as a federal appeals judge, a highly paid corporate attorney and as Jimmy Carter's Attorney General. In speeches and in testimony last week to a Senate subcommittee, he advanced a bold idea: sending the biggest cases to Congress "as legislative matters" rather than taking them to court. "My idea," he said, "would be to certify to Congress that the case is beyond the capacity of the courts to handle." In an earlier speech before the American Bar Association, he described what sounds...
...rule on vacating the convictions. Since the major prosecution witnesses have frequently changed their stories, any such order would probably mean speedy release for the prisoners, but Chavis says he has little hope of that. Nor is he confident about an FBI investigation ordered by Attorney General Griffin Bell. The best hope for the Wilmington Ten, he said, lies in marshaling public pressure on the President to urge a North Carolina pardon for them. "We are political prisoners," he says, "and in political-prisoner situations, the public decides the case, not the courts...