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Mean Dean. The brilliant and aggressive chief prosecutor, James Neal, delivered a four-hour summation of the Government's complex case that may become a trial textbook classic. The Government, Neal declared, had no desire "to paint a halo" over its witnesses, but these men "have paid or are paying the penalty for their sins. They have nothing left to do but to tell the truth and start rebuilding their lives." Neal also asked the jury: "Isn't it strange that all the defendants in this case take the position that this whole massive cover-up was really...
...arguments finally ended on the trial's 61st day and the panel awaited only Federal Judge John J. Sirica's instructions, the Government had drawn its case tightly around each of the five defendants. So effective had been the final summation by Chief Prosecutor James Neal that Prates warned the jury against being swayed "by the silver tongue of a great lawyer...
Defense attorneys in their final arguments picked up on Neal's vivid description of the cover-up conspiracy as being akin to a symphony orchestra in which each player, no matter how minor, was essential to the complete performance. Prates protested, "We're missing one person here-the orchestra leader." That implied another desperate defense hope: because former President Richard Nixon had been pardoned by Gerald Ford and had then been judged too ill to testify, the jury might find it unfair to convict Nixon...
...good-humored William Hundley, summing up for John Mitchell, conceded that "the maestro of the White House may have been orchestrating some pretty strange tunes." But Hundley contended that "it is obvious that John Mitchell was not one of the boys in that band." Though Neal had referred to Defendants Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson as "cymbals" in the ensemble, Mardian's attorney, Thomas Green, insisted that his client "never sat in the orchestra-he sat down in the seats ... finally got up and walked out." H.R. Haldeman, who might have been described as first violin, was not assigned...
...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...