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...case for the defense was completed earlier in the week by testimony from Defendants Robert C. Mardian, 51, and Kenneth W. Parkinson, 47. Both emphatically denied that as attorneys for the Committee for the Re-Election of the President in 1972, they had participated in the coverup. Compared with the other three accused, John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, Mardian and Parkinson have been relatively minor figures in the case, though Neal described them as "a necessary part of the orchestration...
...insist that Nixon is vital to their case. Thus proposals to move the entire trial temporarily to California or to take Nixon's testimony by closed-circuit television or on video tape were under consideration, assuming that he recovers sufficiently for any questioning at all. Defendant Robert Mardian was seeking a separate, later trial because his chief lawyer, David Bress, was undergoing tests for an undetermined throat ailment...
...back on the jury and grinned as he heard his own high-pitched laughter played back in a rare moment of taped levity. John Mitchell, the former Attorney General, listened casually through one earphone, as if he wanted to hear as little as possible. The others, John Ehrlichman, Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson, were somber...
Pure As Snow. In opening statements, attorneys for Ehrlichman, Mardian and Parkinson made no attempt to deny that there had been a high-level White House coverup. Instead, they argued variously that their clients had been duped by those above them or that their Watergate involvement was insignificant. David Bress, the attorney for Mardian, claimed that Mitchell, 61, had developed "a sort of father-and-son relationship with Mardian," who is 51. Thus Mardian, former head of the Justice Department's Internal Security Division, was misled by Mitchell. "Mardian was as pure as a driven snow," Bress argued...
...possible absence of Richard Nixon; defense lawyers are sure to argue that the former President is vital to their case. Neal must also persuade jurors that Nixon's pardon is no reason to let his former aides go free. The two lesser defendants, former Assistant Attorney General Robert Mardian and C.R.P. Attorney Kenneth Parkinson, will probably claim that they had limited roles and a lack of knowledge about what was really going on. John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman and John Enrlich-man appear to be in much weaker positions, especially if their attorneys fail to block introduction of the tapes...