Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jurors, by their own accounts, tried hard to understand but kept colliding with Patty's own words and actions. Her performance on the stand affected them most. "I really believed her, even when she took the Fifth Amendment," said one juror. But the evidence patiently brought out by Prosecutor James L. Browning Jr. led them to believe that Patty was lying, despite the efforts of Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey and his staff. There was the photograph of Patty on the day of her arrest, defiantly flashing the clenched fist signal of the revolutionary. There was the testimony...
...kept insisting, right to the end. At one point, at the request of the special prosecutor, Federal Judge John J. Sirica had ordered the White House to produce a Dictabelt that Nixon claimed to have made to summarize a meeting with his estranged counsel, John Dean, on April 15, 1973. Nixon, who apparently had never made the recording, asked one of his lawyers: "Why can't we make a new Dictabelt?" The lawyer was understandably appalled that Nixon, himself an attorney, would consider concocting evidence for the court...
After the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Nixon must turn over the tapes of 64 conversations to Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, the President telephoned Watergate Lawyer J. Fred Buzhardt. "There might be a problem with the June 23 tape, Fred," Nixon said. He was referring to the tape of a conversation he had had with his principal aide, Haldeman. When Buzhardt heard the tape, he knew immediately that Nixon was finished. It showed indisputably that Nixon had lied in claiming he had national security in mind when he asked top CIA officials to urge FBI Director L. Patrick Gray...
Patty's whole tale, the prosecutor said, was "just too big a pill to swallow." He asked the jurors if they would accept the "incredible story" of the robbery "from anyone but Patricia Hearst. If you wouldn't, don't accept it from her either." Browning concluded with a quote cited in several Supreme Court decisions that had a grim, Old Testament ring. He hoped, he said, "that guilt shall not escape or innocence suffer...
Passaic County Prosecutor Burrell Ives Humphreys immediately promised a retrial "in a couple of months." Meanwhile Carter and Artis were released on $20,000 and $15,000 bail respectively. Artis was surprised at the outcome. "From 1966 to now everything has been denied, denied, denied," he said, "and I didn't look for any change." Carter remained grim and steely. "If I am bitter, then I have a right to be bitter," said the former boxer. "What you're seeing is a man who has been without his wife and daughter for 9½ years for crimes...