Word: indictment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal grand jury in San Fran cisco is about to complete a 14-month investigation of sugar-pricing practices and is widely expected to return indict ments against several sugar companies soon. The Justice Department has an nounced that it is conducting a separate investigation of possible sugar price fixing...
JUDGING BY THIS past performance it is doubtful that the Economics Department can reform itself. Its failure to act on the six-month-old visiting committee recommendations is bad enough, but there is even more evidence to indict the department...
...case had reached Battisti's federal court in Cleveland through a complex series of events. First an Ohio grand jury refused to indict any Guardsman for the 13-second volley of shots fired into a crowd during a rally to protest the 1970 U.S. invasion of Cambodia. Then Attorney General John Mitchell refused to bring any federal charges. But parents, survivors and sympathizers would not accept that result. Last year Attorney General Elliot Richardson was persuaded to renew the investigation. This time a federal grand jury charged eight of the Guardsmen with willfully violating the victims' civil rights...
Meanwhile, The Devil played in Memphis, where Assistant U.S. Attorney Larry Parrish moved to indict everyone he could who was connected with the film. The federal offense charged: conspiracy to transport obscene materials across state lines, which carries a five-year maximum sentence. Parrish located Spelvin in Maine and tried to have her brought to Memphis for trial. Though she had never been in Tennessee, Maine Civil Liberties Union lawyers were unable to fight off Parrish's long-arm grab. So the celebrated porn actress came at last to Memphis. "Well," she said after being arraigned, "the 50th anniversary...
...would give the grand jury the same advice today. There is serious legal doubt that a grand jury can indict a sitting President. I believe that the Supreme Court would have so ruled. Besides, the impeachment process was already under way. Suppose Nixon had been indicted and the Supreme Court ruled that he could not be? Those responsible for bringing the indictment would have gravely injured the country domestically and internationally...