Word: plea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drinking. Collectively, they bumbled through a mere 130 felony trials a year, plus uncounted misdemeanor cases. With the crime explosion of the late '60s, the backlog grew to 5,422 felonies. A person charged with a felony waited an average of 4½ months to enter a plea, and the average time from arraignment to judgment was 13½ months...
...political "message" of the play, which has been removed, by the way, from the familiar movie version. The reviewer writes: "Of course, stretching the Anderson thesis a point further, one can see more than a slight tinge of whooping up the Allied cause in the present war and a plea for U.S. intervention. This facet of the play's message,' if taken seriously, would probably make almost anyone writhe." "If taken seriously." Surely there was no danger of that...
...President at his press conference praised some of his former top aides for refusing in the past to use "the shield of the Fifth Amendment as they could have and plead self-incrimination." They had testified "freely," he said, and they had not sought immunity or engaged in "plea bargaining" with prosecutors. Actually, Colson had declared that he would take the Fifth Amendment if called before the Senate Watergate committee. Ehrlichman's lawyers did plea bargain but rejected Jaworski's final offer. Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Mitchell may have testified freely, but according to the grand jury indictments, they...
After an initial period to familiarize himself with all the evidence, Jaworski took the lead. He has made all the key decisions on such questions as plea bargaining and cooperation with the House Judiciary Committee. He refused on principle to meet with Nixon on accepting the assignment. He has since turned down two invitations from the President to see him. Jaworski has largely dealt with the White House through Chief of Staff Alexander Haig-with increasing impatience, though he recognizes that Haig is simply a "good soldier" obeying his commander in chiefs orders. The prosecutor was kind and courtly...
Voting largely along party lines, the House passed the bill 258 t0151- a margin insufficient to override a veto-after an impassioned plea by West Virginia Democrat Harley Staggers. "Do you want to go home and tell your farmers, your small businessmen and little plastic companies that you were down here trying to help them?" he asked. By passing the measure, the Democrats figured to satisfy angry demands from constituents that they do something to ease the energy pinch-and to pin political liability for killing the bill squarely on the President. Representative John Anderson of Illinois, a leader...