Word: prosecutors
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...Browning is unlikely to get much of a suntan as he juggles the two most important cases of his 14-year career as a prosecutor. The first of these -the charge that Hearst was a willing participant in the Symbionese Liberation Army bank robbery in San Francisco-brought Browning into court last week against famed Defense Lawyer F. Lee Bailey. It was an encounter to whet courthouse appetites. "Browning versus Bailey?" remarked a San Francisco attorney. "The only question is what school Patty will enroll in next year. Bailey will...
...prosecutors, Paul claims, ignored evidence that might have swayed the jury: a clipping of a comic-strip version of an Old Testament episode that Little had used as a bookmark in her Bible, which was found after the killing. The clipping, which prosecutors insist they have never seen, showed an Israelite woman, Jael, luring an enemy into her tent, then driving a nail into his head while he slept. The fact that the prosecution did not use the strip, contended Paul, a persistent court critic, only bolstered his cynicism. Given an undistinguished prosecutor and a clever defense attorney with money...
...with $100,000 in campaign funds donated by Billionaire Howard Hughes? Last week, after 28 months of investigation, the Watergate Special Prosecution Force issued its final report -and shed no light on these questions. But the bland and incomplete report, prepared under the direction of the third special prosecutor, Henry S. Ruth Jr., who is retiring, did fine tune, for better or worse, the reputations of several men who played major roles in the drama...
...report relates that the White House began challenging Cox's authority when the press printed unfounded stories that Cox was pursuing the possible misuse of public funds on Nixon's San Clemente estate. Richardson warned Cox that this might be beyond the special prosecutor's jurisdiction. Cox conceded only that no such probe was under way. But a week later, according to the report, Richardson asked that the Justice Department be allowed to "screen" any avenue of Cox's investigation to decide whether it was proper. Cox refused. Later, Richardson tried to dissuade Cox from interviewing...
...commentary. There is for instance the meeting in the Oval Office on June 23, 1972, where Haldeman informs the President that the break-in was engineered by a bunch of people over at CREEP. All Nixon has to do at this point is call Earl Silbert at the prosecutor's office, come completely clean, and his problems are over. Why doesn't he? Is it out of loyalty to John Mitchell? Higgins is content to observe that "if you work hard enough, you can transform any problem into a calamity", and leaves it at that. In another section, Higgins concludes...