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...role in a multiparty insurance deal in 1976. After a complex series of transactions, an Arizona insurance company claimed it had been bilked of $1.75 million, and the state bar launched a three-year investigation of Kleindienst's conduct in the affair. Last week a Maricopa County grand jury charged him with 14 counts of lying before one of the bar's committees. Ironically, in his reaction to the indictment, Kleindienst recalled, consciously or not, a famous denial made by his onetime boss Richard Nixon. Said Kleindienst: "I am not a liar...
Party-line pleading dates from 1970, when judges in California agencies began accepting such calls. It has caught on with municipal, state and federal judges elsewhere-notably in Arizona's sprawling Maricopa County, where heavy floods a year ago limited travel and thus created a perfect test for the idea. While saving considerable time and money, "it doesn't cut down the effectiveness of the advocacy at all," says Thomas Kleinschmidt, a superior court judge in Phoenix. The technique is used for various proceedings, including hearings on the admission of evidence, the trial schedule and the parties...
Many lawyers and prosecutors defend plea bargaining as "flexible," claiming that bargaining can shape the sentence to the individual defendant. What is more, says Maricopa County (Ariz.) Attorney Charles Hyder, it is "the greatest weapon a prosecutor has. The prosecutor is in the driver's seat. Usually the defendant is not aware of any weaknesses in a case...
Whoever plotted it. the senseless killing seemed certain to boomerang. Arizona Attorney General Bruce Babbitt quickly took charge of the investigation, brushing aside the bumbling Maricopa County prosecutor, Moise Berger. Both houses of the state legislature swiftly approved legislation to break up the Arizona dog racing monopoly, controlled in part by Emprise. A special prosecution fund providing $100,000 to investigate Bolles' murder is assured of speedy approval by the legislature. The Arizona Republic vowed to intensify its crusade against "the slimy hand of the gangster and the pitiless atrocities of the terrorist...
...have moved onto Indian reservations, enticed by the freedom from real estate taxes accorded reservation enterprises ?and by cheap labor. They provide jobs and profits for individual Indians as well as their tribes. Simpson Cox, a white Phoenix lawyer, has spent 22 years with the Gila River Pima-Maricopa Indians, successfully pressing the Government to compensate the tribe fairly for confiscating their lands. He has helped them build industrial parks, a tourist center, a trade school, farms, community centers and an airstrip...