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...bills reliably reported to total $200,000. Former White House Counsel John Dean has probably incurred bills of $50,000. John Ehrlichman, Nixon's former chief domestic adviser, is fighting court actions on both coasts that may already have cost him $100,000. New York Attorney Henry Rothblatt charged $125,000 to defend four Watergate burglars, and Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt has paid out nearly $220,000, a sum largely raised by Nixon campaign aides...
Among the speakers scheduled to lecture this week are Henry B. Rothblatt, former attorney for five Watergate defendants, including James McCord; Edward Swartz, author of Toys That Kill; Paul D. Rheingold and Norman Landau, authors of the Environmental Law Handbook; and, Jerry S. Cohen, co-author of America...
...gave his lawyer $25,000 in $100 bills as partial payment of legal fees. Conspirator James McCord claims to have paid his attorney the same amount in the same way. The size of those fees, however, is thought to be minimal compared with some others. New York Attorney Henry Rothblatt, a voluble, flamboyant and highly skilled criminal specialist who represented four of the original defendants, charged them $125,000 even though they refused his advice and pleaded guilty. (While he did not represent McCord in the criminal trial, Rothblatt is representing him in connection with civil actions and last week...
...exasperated was Judge Sirica by both prosecution and defense that he often swept aside legal proprieties, interrupting and making theatrical asides. He started by interrogating all the prospective jurors himself, and during the trial he urged the lawyers to "get on with it." When Henry Rothblatt, one of the defense lawyers, offered an emotional opening statement, Sirica broke in with warnings, such as "don't let your blood pressure...
...Army does go through with the trials, Rothblatt will probably demand a change of venue to Washington or Hawaii. He claims that the men cannot get a fair trial in the war zone. Even if the Green Berets lose at first, the defense lawyers are likely to take full advantage of a lenient appeal procedure. After automatic review by the convening authority and an Army court of review, they can take the case to the Court of Military Appeals and then try to shift it to the federal courts. The Army, which likes to prosecute its law violators in private...