Word: obstructiveness
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Twenty-two men are currently on trial in New York for "conspiring to obstruct justice" by concealing the purpose of their 1957 "underworld convention" at Apalachin. By the normal standards of American morality, the majority of them are undesirable creatures, suspected, and possibly guilty, of assorted crimes from murder on down the scale of turpitude to petty larceny...
...jury trial will probably produce. Just as with Al Capone in the Thirties, the Federal law enforcement authorities have not been able to prove a case against the defendants for major crimes and have had to resort to irrelevant charges like doubtful income tax evasion or "conspiracy to obstruct justice...
Impossibly Difficult. Studying the mass of uninformative testimony, Justice and Treasury Department officials came up with the idea of hooking the most recalcitrant members on an unusual charge: conspiracy to obstruct justice (possible sentence: five years' imprisonment and/or $5,000 fine each) on the basis of their concerted refusal to talk (three of the 21 were also indicted on straight perjury charges). By that legal device, the Government hopes to put some of the top U.S. thugs out of circulation-certainly a worthy aim. Yet achieving that aim might prove impossibly difficult. Although circumstantial evidence is given substantial weight...
...Sabbath. But it was also full of men devoted to pleasure and prepared to pay. The Messinas decided that what London vice needed was organization, and they set out to provide it. To his delight, Eugene Messina discovered that it cost no more in legal fines to obstruct a London street with a tart than with...
Although such a proposal will give the Russians one more talking point with which to obstruct a final solution, the failure to consider peaceful tests would be a dangerous one. Progress in the attempt to turn atoms into plowshares should not be sacrificed to the pressure against weapons tests...