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Lifting 135 Ibs. of concrete blocks from the bottom of Jamaica Bay, the bloated body of a Mafia assassin named Ernie ("The Hawk") Rupolo floated ashore one morning in 1964 in New York City's Queens County. Rupolo's murder clearly looked like the gangland variety, which usually defies solution. This time, though, the killers had not displayed their customary efficiency in disposing of the corpse. Moreover, Queens County Assistant District Attorney James C. Mosley was convinced that they had made other errors too. In 1967, he brought a Long Island Mafia lieutenant, John ("Sonny") Franzese, and three...
...witnesses have recently been convicted of crimes; in exchange for their testimony, Mosley has promised to recommend lighter sentences for them. Will the jury believe men with their records? One is a Mafia gunman who testifies that, from a hidden place, he saw Franzese's pals stab The Hawk several times in a parking lot. Remarking on the witness's matter-of-fact account, the defense asks the jury: "Did you ever in your life see a more cold, calculated killer...
...Franzese trial it came just before the judge's charge to the jury, in the form of a letter from a Sing Sing convict named Walter Sher. The letter claimed that one of Mosley's witnesses had admitted to Sher that he himself had killed The Hawk. In an emotional plea, Mosley argued that Sher was a psychopath, who had written the letter without even being asked, hoping to receive favors in prison from friends of Franzese. Sher's testimony, although unsubstantiated, was enough to raise doubts in the minds of the jurors. All four defendants were...
...moralistic or more maudlin. He may have his difficulties extracting the evidence, but he grows increasingly adept at producing facial contortions in his interlocutors. Under his gaze, faces "darken" or "work with thought"; eyes grow "misty with the quasi-maternal feelings of a procuress" or become "abstract, like a hawk...
...Wayne stands to the right in sex, he is an unabashed reactionary in politics. A rapping Republican and flapping hawk, he has made the Viet Nam war his personal crusade. Yet his rigid, Old Guard style still wins salutes from the New Left...