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Impressive as they were, Ieronymos' aggressive reforms still had a dictatorial side. He got the government to authorize kangaroo courts in which clergy men could be dismissed simply for having a bad reputation, and on the basis of hearsay evidence alone. The fate of an accused churchman, Ieronymos himself admitted, depended not on whether the charges were true or false but on "the effect that these charges have on a reputation." Ieronymos got rid of two bishops by trial and forced seven more to resign under threat of prosecution. He went after not only bishops reputed to be immoral...
Klieg lights often throw more heat than illumination. Hearsay evidence can be spoken out of context. Mistakes cannot be edited on live TV. Even the most innocent cameraman can, at a tense moment, transform the zoom lens into a character assassin...
...Others have mentioned it. Dean Mills of the Baltimore Sun's Washington bureau wrote a lengthy piece about the difficulties of conducting a successful prosecution in an atmosphere of supercharged publicity. In it he quoted Paul C. Reardon, an expert on pretrial publicity, who condemned the circulation of "hearsay on hearsay, statements in which people are being damned two or three removes away...
...distant, raised eye of the London Times, the untidy mix of prosecutors, press and Congress seemed almost to amount to "a lynching" of the President. A Times editorial scored Ervin's committee for publicizing hearsay, the Watergate grand jury for considering prejudicial evidence, and the newspapers (especially the New York Times and the Washington Post) for publishing leaks. It complained that much out of-court evidence, like that being offered by John Dean, was "not given under oath, not open to crossexamination" and is thus of a quality that "could hardly be less satisfactory. Yet on this evidence could...
What the Ervin committee hones to develop is a chain of evidence in which witnesses-generally following the ascending order of official authority-will corroborate the charges of those who testified before them. Thus much of McCord's hearsay testimony may be verified by the next witness, Caulfield...