Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scales. Two years later, John Mitchell, the Attorney General, is still the heavyweight in Nixon's hierarchy, although to many outsiders he seems more like the heavy. Dour, taciturn, formidably efficient, Mitchell comes across to liberals and civil libertarians as a hard-lining prosecutor with all the human graces of the Sheriff of Nottingham...
...this related only peripherally to the prosecution, which actually seemed to be based on Gandar's past op position to racial policies and the fact that the prison stories had been picked up by the foreign press. Editors, argued the prosecutor, should refrain from publishing material that might embarrass the government abroad...
According to Dietrich Rahn, Frankfurt's chief prosecutor, Defregger's involvement might have been, at the very most, manslaughter, a crime for which the German statute of limitations expired in 1959. Döpfner, who shocked many Catholics by admitting that he had known about Defregger's military history all along, said he was convinced that "according to international law, no criminal action has taken place." He also reminded his Munich flock that the 114th, an antipartisan outfit with a reputation for ruthlessness, had been engaged in "an especially dangerous withdrawal operation . . . It is almost impossible...
...motel in a desperate attempt to find a sniper who proved in the end to have been imaginary. Witnesses, some with criminal records, charged that August took Pollard into a room, that there was a shot, and that August emerged saying: "He didn't even kick." Prosecutor Avery Weiswasser contended that August and the two other cops, David Senak and Robert Faille, "chose to kill first and investigate later...
Carl D. Offner, a graduate student in Mathematics, was sentenced to a year in a jail for assaulting Dean Watson during the occupation of University Hall. The city prosecutor asked for a six-month sentence, but trial judge M. Edward Viola overruled him and imposed the one-year sentence...