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...tense 54-minute proceedings in Sirica's Washington courtroom, a lighter sentence of ten months to three years went to Robert Mardian, once a top aide to Mitchell at both the Justice Department and the Nixon 1972 re-election committee. Tight-lipped but known to be seething about the fact that he had been linked in trial with the top three, Mardian bolted through a rear door when the session ended. He will return to his family's construction business in Phoenix while he and the others await the result of their appeals. This process could take...
JUDGE JOHN J. SIRICA'S lenient sentences last Saturday for John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and Robert Mardian show that two and a half years after the Watergate break-in, justice is still a long way off. Giving three of the most powerful men in the Nixon administration no fines, and only 30 months in jail--less if they exemplify "good behavior"--constitutes, in comparison to their crimes, little more than a slap on the wrist...
Mitchell, former attorney general and a vociferous hardliner on law and order, deserves more than two and a half years simply for the immense hypocrisy of his sense of justice. Mardian is a lawyer, too, and he should be given stronger punishment for the same betrayal of justice. Haldeman and Ehrlichman, former chief advisors in the White House, both deserve to be tried, along with Nixon, for possible collusion in, or at least prior knowledge of, crimes related to the war in Vietnam, the coup in Chile, administration impoundment of funds appropriated by Congress, and CIA domestic spying...
...Sirica. Although they had formally applied for release earlier, Sirica had, in a sense, held them hostage until after the conspiracy trial ended. The testimony of Dean, Magruder and Kalmbach had helped convict four former officials of the Nixon Administration-John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Robert Mardian-in that trial. Former Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski believes, in fact, that the testimony of such lower-level members of the conspiracy, plus the celebrated March 21, 1973 "cancer on the presidency" tape, would have produced the convictions even without the subsequent tapes secured at the direction of the U.S. Supreme...
ROBERT C. MARDIAN, 51, attorney for the Committee for the Re-Election of the President and once the chief of the Justice Department's internal security division. Convicted of conspiracy; awaiting sentencing...