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When Gunman Dana Nash was tried in 1962 for killing a Chicago union official, the key witness against him was his nephew, William Triplett, who had helped him commit the murder. Nash knew that a prison psychiatrist had once diagnosed his nephew as "a true psychopath." To impeach Triplett's credibility, Nash asked the trial judge to order a psychiatric examination. The judge refused. After Nash received a sentence of 99 to 150 years, he appealed on the ground, among others, of this alleged error. By definition, he argued, a psychopath is a liar and "unworthy of belief...
...soon as Ronald Reagan announced that California's budget for higher education would be slashed by ten per cent next year, bumper stickers saying "Had Enough? Impeach Reagan" bloomed on the freeways. Good-humored as this reaction seems, its suddenness confirms that Reagan made a colossal miscalculation; Californians, even those who pushed him into office with a million-vote margin, never intended him to tamper with the state's tuition-free system of higher education...
Some delegates were having none of that. A few reported receiving telegrams urging "Impeach Appel!" and in the wrangling that went on for four days behind closed doors, old labels took on a new twist. The "radicals" wanted a boycott that would mean that doctors would refuse to cooperate at all with medicare. The "conservatives" were the more cautious, who insisted that they didn't like medicare either, and would do everything in their power to oppose its enactment, but would, as President Appel had urged, go along if it becomes...
...woman suffrage, currency reform and the eight-hour day. He stood firmly opposed to what he called "Miss Nancyism"-in this case a sympathetic approach to Reconstruction of the South. With his sharp lawyer's mind, he was a natural choice for prosecutor when the Congress tried to impeach President Andrew Johnson. Caustic and too clever by half in many people's opinion, Butler attacked Johnson as if he were a horse thief. The impeachment move failed by one vote...
...feel that fair practice is to try him first on the most serious charge. With only the now-suspect confession to go on, the prosecutors took a different tack. In the murder trials, if Whitmore took the stand to repudiate his confession, prior convictions would be admissible evidence to impeach his testimony. By arrangement between the Brooklyn and Manhattan D.A.s, Whitmore was thus tried first in Brooklyn, where the nurse's identification would help nail him for attempted rape; the Brooklyn and Manhattan murder trials were scheduled to follow in ascending dramatic order...