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Moralists may wonder why the U.S. press and public spent seven weeks following the affairs of burly Melvin Powers, 24, and his lissome, lippy aunt, Candace Mossler, 46, in intimate detail. Most lawyers, though, are morally certain that they know exactly why a Miami jury so easily acquitted Candy and Mel of killing her millionaire husband, Jacques Mossler, 69: the defendants had in their corner hulking, booming Houston Lawyer Percy Foreman, whose never-failing tactic is to act as if the murder victim, not the suspect, were on trial. By "trying" everyone except his clients, Foreman has lost a defendant...
...team of defense lawyers, Foreman confronted wholly circumstantial evidence-and the relatively easy job of raising a reasonable doubt in the jurors' minds. According to Prosecutor Richard Gerstein, who had won 24 previous capital cases, Aunt Candy and Nephew Mel had lived and loved together on Financier Mossler's money. Aggrieved over their lurid affair, Mossler allegedly planned a divorce that would have cut off their income and her potential inheritance. To avoid that disaster, argued Gerstein, Mel jetted over from Houston to Miami one June day in 1964, jumped into a white car provided by Candy, drove...
...murdering a customer; one of his defense attorneys was Carl Sanders, now the Governor of Georgia. The Miami News's Haines Colbert reported that on the anniversary of her husband's death, Candy sent newspapers some pictures of herself and her four adopted children mourning at Mossler's grave...
...Miami police, Mossier left a note: "If Mel and Candace don't kill me first, I'll kill them." While Candace fled to the Mayo Clinic for more migraine therapy and treatment for what she calls "too many red corpuscles," the Miami cops extradited Melvin Powers, 23, Mossler's burly nephew. As police told it, Powers, who was Candace's longtime lover, jetted over from Houston the day before the murder, crushed his uncle's skull with a king-size Coke bottle and jetted home next morning. Said Candace on hearing the charge: "Oh, pooh...