Word: quashed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Agnew's courtroom victory came after his lawyers had moved to quash the grand jury investigation by arguing that it was not only unconstitutional-a Vice President could not be indicted-but that the Justice Department had leaked so much detrimental material about Agnew to the press that the jurors were bound to be prejudiced. In a highly unusual action, Judge Walter E. Hoffman granted Agnew's attorneys the power to gather information about the extent of the leaks by questioning under oath any persons they felt to be "appropriate and necessary"-a sweeping definition that could...
...seemed to Agnew's advantage to try to delay the grand jury as much as possible. Last week his lawyers filed for a court order that, among other things, would quash the grand jury action on the grounds that "the Constitution forbids that the Vice President be indicted or tried in any criminal court...
...Watergate, the ITT scandal, and probably on the Ellsberg break-in and other plumbers' activities. Now that he has been indicted, Ehrlichman has grounds for keeping silent, at least in regard to the Ellsberg burglary case. His attorneys, in fact, asked the federal district court in Washington to quash the subpoena; testifying for a fourth time, they maintained, would be "unreasonable and oppressive." Cox, on the other hand, argued that Ehrlichman has testified only briefly in his past appearances. He feels that Ehrlichman knows too much to be silenced...
...Ervin committee had hoped that Nixon would file a motion to quash the subpoenas, a step that would put the burden of proof on the President's attorneys. Instead, Nixon's men elected to ignore all the subpoenas, simply issuing a letter of refusal and leaving the burden of legal initiative on the committee and on Cox. Immediately, the committee, voting by hand on camera in the hearing room, moved to sue the President for the tapes and documents...
...heart of the matter is the secret Nixon campaign contribution of $200,000 in cash that was paid to Stans by Financier Robert L. Vesco. The indictments assert that Mitchell and Stans reciprocated by aiding Vesco in his unsuccessful efforts to quash a Securities and Exchange Commission probe into his "looting" of a huge mutual-fund complex. The go-between was Harry L. Sears, head of Nixon's re-election drive in New Jersey, onetime Republican majority leader in the state's senate and a director of International Controls Corp., which Vesco dominated...