Word: pleads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first defendant to plead guilty was E. Howard Hunt, 54, a former White House consultant and longtime CIA official who played a prominent part in the planning of an earlier fiasco, the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961. At first Hunt offered to plead guilty to only three of the six charges against him, but under pressure from Judge Sirica he agreed to include...
...Anything I may have done I believed to be in the best interests of my country," Hunt declared. Had there been a conspiracy involving high Government officials? "To my personal knowledge," he replied, "there was none." Hunt insisted that the key factor in his decision to plead guilty-and thus escape the ordeal of a long trial-had been the death of his wife in a Chicago plane crash last month. Still, his action inevitably increased speculation that he was seeking to avoid further disclosures in the case...
Cash. Late in the week, reports circulated in Washington that four of the remaining defendants-three of whom are Cubans from Miami-were being offered large cash settlements by undisclosed "friends" if they would plead guilty and thus avoid a potentially embarrassing trial. The offers, TIME learned, ranged as high as $1,000 to each defendant for every month he spends in prison, with additional amounts to be paid at his release...
Bail is also widely criticized because, in the words of the New York commission, it "arbitrarily discriminates against the poor" and puts those who cannot make bail under added "pressure to plead guilty." But precisely because of the latter reality, bail serves an unspoken purpose. Getting rid of it would very likely cut guilty pleas and further increase the already crippling delays in the courts...
...committee acknowledges that the GSD will submit a substantial amount of supporting evidence in confidence, Hartman said. He said the decision means the Design School "can plead confidentiality almost, at will; which structurally biases the preceding enormously...