Word: indictment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friends from within government as well as without. Former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford and others have made private appeals to the Carter administration to spare Helm's neck, and the Justice Department's continued reluctance to arrive at a final verdict on whether to indict him testifies to the influence wielded by the "Helms lobby." Bell has also granted special audiences to Helms's counsel, the renowned trial attorney Edward Bennet Williams...
Just whom Bell had in mind was not altogether certain. Former California Representative Richard Hanna was not only named as a co-conspirator in the Park indictment, but he was also described as having acted as an agent for South Korea while in Congress and having received over $100,000 for his services. Yet Justice officials were not sure they had enough evidence to indict Hanna. One immediate effect of the Park indictment was clear, however: the chances that the Korean would show up in Washington again were slimmer than ever...
...considers to be a civil tax matter, presumably so they could be forced to testify without the aid of an attorney. In general, says U.S. Judge William J. Campbell, "the grand jury is the total captive of the prosecutor, who, if he is candid, will concede that he can indict anybody, at any time, for almost anything, before any grand jury...
...Angeles County grand jury is soon expected to decide whether to indict Polanski on one or more of a series of felony charges including rape, child molestation, oral copulation, sodomy and providing drugs to a minor. Polanski won't talk about the case, on instructions of his lawyer, but is said to be furious on the grounds that whatever he did would have been viewed as no major matter in Europe...
...legitimate one, and certainly the nation's crime rate could be appreciably reduced with proper rehabilitative training of men and women felons. Yet to suggest that this is reason enough for Gilmore's behavior, evinced before the need for rehabilitation was even apparent, is spurious. To further indict society, thereby acquitting Gilmore, is to commit a travesty of justice...