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...large, legal and law enforcement professionals were aghast at the damning evidence against Nixon. Chicago Professor Philip B. Kurland, one of the nation's leading experts on the Constitution and a consultant to the Senate Watergate Committee, said that he found "strong evidence" in the transcripts that Nixon was guilty of inducing his aides to commit perjury and of obstructing justice?both indictable crimes and therefore impeachable offenses by Nixon's own definition. Kurland added: "I can't find either ambiguity or any evidence which tends to exonerate him." Dean Michael Severn of Columbia University Law School looked closely...
...Oklahoma City, much admires Sirica and his Watergate role but likens the sentencing tactic to "the torture rack and the Spanish Inquisition." Argues Law Dean Monroe Freedman of Hofstra University: "Sirica deserves to be censured for becoming the prosecutor himself." The University of Chicago's Law Professor Philip Kurland considers the harsh original sentences "a form of extortion...
...have a victory of good; we just have an exposure of evil," observes Professor Kurland. "Nothing has been triumphant but cynicism." Stanford Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam worries whether justice can possibly be done when the criminal evidence has been held up for so long by those who might be guilty. "It is as if in a bank robbery all evidence were given to the robber to hold for two years before trial...
...KURLAND: My conclusion is that...
...KURLAND: You have two functions here. One is the function of determining whether the man should continue to hold office; the other is whether he should be subject to conviction for a crime. I think that the House could very possibly decide that a man is disqualified from office because of crimes that he had committed prior to acceding to that office and that remained undiscovered at the time of his election...