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Raab's latest expose began last fall when he was approached by several people skeptical about the validity of Hurricane Carter's conviction. Raab agreed to read the trial transcript and found the case against Carter and Artis weak. He returned to the bar where the shootings occurred and retraced the steps of two key witnesses, Arthur D. Bradley and Alfred P. Bello, who were burglarizing a nearby sheet-metal company at the time of the Shootout. At the trial, both witnesses gave the impression that they were next door to the murder scene. Raab discovered that...
Horror stories about the damaging material collected in closed files abound. A Massachusetts college student claims she was denied admission at a number of universities because her high school sent incomplete transcripts to the schools. The student, now a freshman, says that she was unable to correct the mistake because she was not allowed to see her transcript...
...procedure for playing the tapes has produced much of the courtroom quarreling. Defense counsel have consistently argued that the tapes contain irrelevant but prejudicial comments, and that transcripts provided to the jury for help in listening, but not as evidence, can mislead the jurors. The point was illustrated in a salacious way when a March 22 tape was played on which someone in the Oval Office is heard discussing a phone call with Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau. A voice then calls him "asshole Trudeau." The transcript omitted Trudeau's name but identified the voice as Haldeman...
...Foreman Leslie H. Leland, a pharmacist, the grand jury was reconvened in April 1970. But it was muzzled by Dinis' reluctance to press the investigation and by a court order prohibiting the jurors from summoning witnesses who had already testified at the inquest and from examining the inquest transcript. The grand jury quit in frustration, and Dinis declared: "The case is closed...
When Haig learned of the last transcript, he knew Nixon was finished. He believes Nixon knew it too. Some others in the White House did not. Haig moved through the murk. The question that concerned him most was whether the country was ready for the events ahead, and Haig moved skillfully to get the tapes out and bring the country abreast of them...