Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...directly at the jury. His testimony was replete with contradictions of statements he gave in interviews after his arrest, but on one point he was consistent. "I'm innocent, and I haven't killed nobody, and that's all there is to it," he said. When Prosecutor Mallard asked Williams to admit his guilt after pointing out his conflicting statements, the testy defendant replied: "I am about as guilty...
...reality, the primary significance of the White House statement was to begin Nixon's mortal struggle with White House Counsel John Dean. Nixon was now throwing down the gauntlet by denying Dean immunity and attempting to deprive him of any hope of making a deal with the prosecutor to save his skin...
...impossibility of deciding conclusively among the different versions would cause the crisis to run out of steam. The revelation of the White House taping system ended any such possibility. Thenceforth Watergate was transformed into a bitter contest between the President on one side and the Congress and the special prosecutor (appointed in May) on the other for control of the tapes. Whatever the fine points of the legal debate, its very nature-with the implication that there was guilty knowledge to hide-destroyed what was left of Nixon's moral position. It made him a lame duck six months...
...President had returned to Washington on July 28. On July 31, Haig called me. The "smoking gun" had been found; one of the tapes given to the Special Prosecutor-conversations be tween Nixon and Haldeman less than a week after the Water gate break-in-left no doubt that Nixon was familiar with the coverup; he may in fact have ordered it. Impeachment was now certain, conviction highly probable. Haig's role now-and to some extent mine-was to ease Nixon's decision to resign, to give him the psychological support to do the necessary...
...Sheriff Ron Donell of West Virginia went undercover to gather evidence against a corrupt prosecutor and two reputed mobsters and was rejected by voters in the next election. (Dallas, Dynasty, Lou Grant, Quincy, Knots Landing--take your pick...