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Chambers, then a TIME senior editor, gave the papers to the pretrial investigators in the libel case, but he held back the film, partly because he wanted to learn what was on it. Word of Chambers' sensational new revelations quickly reached the House Un-American Activities Committee, before which he had originally accused Hiss. When Committee Member Richard M. Nixon issued a subpoena for any further evidence, Chambers led agents to his Maryland farm and pointed to a hollowed-out pumpkin. Fearful of prowling Hiss investigators, he said, he had put the films in the pumpkin while...
...most impressive aspects of the case, however, are its complexity and the time it is consuming. Pretrial discovery proceedings took more than six years, during which a special crew had to assemble six sets of 60,000 key pages (two sets each for the court, IBM and the Government) and wound up delaying the trial for months when they bollixed the copying and collating. Chief Judge David N. Edelstein figures that the nonjury trial will end sometime in 1976, and it might take him another year to reach a decision. Appeals could carry the case into the 1980s. And then...
Melodramatic though Williams' appeal may have been, it worked. Connally is still not entirely free of trouble, but it appears that he soon will be. In pretrial motions Williams managed to have separated two perjury counts and one conspiracy count against his client, and the day after Big John's acquittal the special prosecutor's office went into court and moved to have the charges dismissed. Jacobsen is still awaiting sentencing on the charge of offering a gratuity to a public official. The maximum penalty for that offense is two years in prison...
...Pretrial Points. Williams feels that he has cause to worry. Fighting the Government, he says, is not easy: "Doors open everywhere to the majesty of Government. I can't call everyone I think knows something about a case before a grand jury; the prosecutors can, and in the Connally case, they have - including the defendant twice." Williams also claims that the prosecuting attorneys can concentrate on a single case, while "I never...
...trial begins, Williams has already scored points. In pretrial motions, he convinced District Judge George Hart that two perjury charges against Connally for allegedly lying under oath should be tried separately from the bribery counts. Hence if Connally wins a bribery acquittal, the perjury counts would most likely be dropped. Williams also got the court to agree that the jury would not be sequestered for the three-or four-week trial - a confinement that can lead jurors to take frustrations out on the defendant...