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...fact, Richard Hawk, 40, an aggressive defense attorney from the San Francisco area, not only entered a not-guilty plea but sued Sutler County for $350 million (twice its assessed valuation) for slander and false arrest. The entire investigation, Hawk insisted, had been "thoroughly bungled...
Worried that the sheriff's office had created a hostile climate of opinion, Hawk made his charges despite a court-ordered ban on talking to the press. That won him the first of eight contempt citations calling for up to 40 days in jail and $3,700 in fines. "I had to," says Hawk, "to take the pressure off Juan." And his tactics did help to turn Corona from an ogre into something of a hero. When the trial opened, Mexican-American pickets marched with signs saying JUSTICE FOR JUAN CORONA...
...given police an exact date. (Corona himself said he was sick in bed when some of the murders were committed.) As the contradictions piled up, Judge Richard Patton repeatedly summoned the lawyers into his chambers to thrash out problems. Patton has done most of the thrashing, citing not only Hawk but each of the two prosecutors for contempt. The judge also pronounced himself "outraged" by the withholding of 1,650 pages of documents, including toxicology and coroner's reports, that the defense was entitled to see. In one closed session, Special Prosecutor Bart Williams, 39, a private attorney hired...
...Hawk, that seemed enough to get Corona out on bail-after more than 500 days of incarceration (and two heart attacks). Indeed, at the courtroom hearing, with the jury absent, Judge Patton excoriated the prosecution for what "almost approaches dereliction of duty. I just don't understand how [the case] could have been prepared in this manner." Then Prosecutor Williams claimed he no longer had reasonable doubt, partly because he had just found that he really did have tire tracks that matched Corona's truck after all; the correct tire-track specimen had simply been mislaid...
Clark admits that initially he was very skeptical of the Hindu monk. "I watched Maharishi like a hawk for three weeks," he recalled. "And then, finally. I decided that he made complete sense on both intellectual and experiential levels. Summing up his five months with the Maharishi Clark said. "It was the most intense and important experience I've ever...