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...mildly entertaining courtroom drama, is having a brief preview run at the Supreme Court this week before moving across the street to bigger and better things in the House of Representative. James St. Clair stars as the slippery lawyer who tries to clear the path for executive dictatorship. Leon Jaworski is, for the first time in his life, cast in the role of the hero. I know how this one ends, but I won't tell you because I don't want to spoil the suspense...
...Clair took two other steps to strengthen Nixon's pending Supreme Court arguments against an order by Federal Judge John J. Sirica that the President must honor Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's subpoena for 64 tapes. St. Clair petitioned the Supreme Court to consider as part of that case whether a grand jury had the authority to name the President as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate coverup, as it had secretly voted to do last Feb. 25, and, if so, whether it had acted on the basis of sufficient evidence. He also asked Judge Sirica...
...another St. Clair action, the attorney served notice that he will appeal an order by Judge Sirica that a 17-minute segment of one Nixon conversation dealing with the Internal Revenue Service be given to Jaworski. So far only Judge Sirica has had access to the tape. Sirica had originally withheld the segment in a belief that IRS matters were not relevant to Jaworski's Watergate investigations. Advised recently by Jaworski that White House attempts to use the IRS for political purposes were under investigation, Sirica changed his mind...
...good. But just how hard has Jaworski's office been bargaining? Both Krogh and Colson were apparently allowed to enter pleas without first telling the prosecutors what they know. Recalling the deals he made as a federal prosecutor, Columbia Law Professor Abraham Sofaer says, "I always made sure what the evidence was. The individual involved has to become an ally of the Government in all respects...
...Watergate prosecutors, as illustrated by the trial of John Mitchell and Maurice Stans in the SEC-Vesco case. While appearing for the prosecution, John Dean admitted that he hoped his testimony would help to hold down his own sentence; the jury consequently discounted most of what he said. Jaworski's office now seems to have decided that it is wiser to have sentences meted out before trying to use a bargained witness. So this week Colson will get his-as much as five years in prison plus up to a $5,000 fine...