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Died. Harry Sacher, 60, longtime mouthpiece for U.S. Communists, who, in defense of eleven top party members in 1949, so badgered, bullied and bedeviled federal Judge Harold Medina, hoping to ruin the jurist's health and thus gain a mistrial, that after the Reds' conviction Medina sentenced him to six months in jail (which he served, though a similar sentence in 1956 for refusing to tell Congress whether he was a Communist was overturned by the Supreme Court); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Sniffed Sacher to Medina: "If it were necessary in the cause of liberty...
...trial in a federal court in Nashville last year. The charge against him then was that he and a Teamster crony had received $1,008,057 in illegal payments from a trucking company, through a truck-leasing firm nominally owned by their wives. Judge William E. Miller declared a mistrial when the jury failed to reach a verdict (TIME, Jan. 4). Afterward, Miller said there had been evidence of "illegal and improper attempts" to influence jurors, and he ordered a special grand jury investigation. In its indictment, the grand jury charged that Hoffa, through one co-conspirator or another, made...
...called prospective jurors to find out how they felt. When Stahlman, a crusty 64-year-old, heard of the jury tampering, he offered a $5,000 reward for arrest of the impostor. Bobby tried to dissuade him-on grounds that detailed publication of the incident might cause a mistrial. Excerpts of the conversation...
Kennedy: That will be fine. I am here in my office alone. It is the opinion of our lawyers . . . that if a detailed story in connection with this matter were made, it might very well lead to a mistrial in this case. I am sure you are as interested as I am in attempting to bring this trial to a successful conclusion. I can understand your own personal concern as to what has resulted at the trial. I have been subjected to these matters for a period of five years now, and the one thing that Mr. Hoffa is interested...
...turned out, Stahlman's publication did not cause a mistrial; nine weeks later, Hoffa was freed after the jury could not agree on his guilt or innocence. Now, in addition, Hoffa had pointed a finger at the Attorney General of the U.S., whose duty it is to see that justice takes an unhampered course, for trying to suppress a fact in order to win a conviction...