Word: sirica
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Watergate mystery remained. In court, five of the burglars pleaded guilty in January 1973 (the other two were quickly convicted), but they still admitted nothing. Federal Judge John Sirica angrily sentenced them to long prison terms (up to 40 years) and indicated that he might reduce the punishment if they confessed more fully. One of the seven, James McCord, wrote Sirica on March 20 that "others involved in the Watergate operation were not identified during the trial." In two secret sessions with Watergate committee counsel Sam Dash, he later named three top Nixon officials: Attorney General Mitchell; Mitchell's deputy...
...strong rebuke to the court of appeals. "I fear for the independence of the judiciary if a powerful litigant can cause the removal of a judge for speaking the truth based upon the evidence," he wrote. "If the standard established here had been applied to the late Judge John Sirica, Richard Nixon might have continued as President of the United States." More than 50 U.S. cases against the cigarette industry are pending...