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James W. Paradise, a 16-year-old ninth-grade dropout, testified that the Cambridge police had forced him to sign a false statement that he had witnessed the Weathermen planning and executing the shooting. "Four policemen had me against a wall, slapping me around. What else could I do?" Paradise said...
Paradise testified that Richard A. Gargiulo, assistant district attorney of Middlesex County, "prepared the statement, and I forcibly put my name to it." The Cambridge police offered him a $10 bribe to testify against the Weathermen, Paradise said...
Charges against Eric M. Mann and 23 other Weathermen of conspiracy to commit murder were dismissed Saturday by Judge M. Edward Viola of East Cambridge District Court...
...Washington, a Moratorium leader Stephen Cohen, accused Weatherman leaders of trying to "shake down" his committee by demanding $20,000 in return for pledging nonviolence during the peace demonstrations. "We politely told them to get lost," said Cohen. The Weathermen say that they asked for help in paying the massive legal fees that have piled up in Chicago, where more than 200 of their members are coming to trial for rioting last month. But they deny that it was a shakedown, claiming that Moratorium leaders issued the story to discredit them. When the violence did come in Washington, the Weathermen...
...William P. Homans Jr. 41, attorney defending the Weathermen in court today, said that he knew nothing about the subpoenas. "If Mann is acting as his own counsel, he has a perfect right to subpoena whenever he wants," he said. "It is legal for anyone on trial to subpoena someone to serve as a witness in his case, if the subpoena is properly notarized...