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...tampering with a Nashville jury in a 1962 federal trial, for which he was sentenced in 1964 to eight years in jail and a $10,000 fine. Though the Teamsters' lawyers had questioned the conviction on 21 points, the court limited its review to their contention that Edward Partin, a longtime crony of Hoffa who acted as a part-time guard at his hotel during the Nashville trial, had been released from jail in Louisiana to spy on Hoffa for the Government. Partin's courtroom testimony that Hoffa had bragged about bribing a Nashville juror, the Teamster boss...
What made Hoffa so disagreeable was the appearance of a surprise Government witness: Edward Grady Partin, 39, secretary-treasurer of a Baton Rouge Teamsters local-and, as it turned out, an undercover federal man during the 1962 Nashville conspiracy trial, from which the jury-tampering charges arose. In 6½ days of testimony, Partin insisted that he had been in Hoffa's confidence at the time of that trial. Hoffa, he said, had asked him to come to Nashville, told him "there might be some people he wanted me to talk to. He said that they were going...
When the defense's turn came last week, much of the testimony was aimed at Partin, charging him with everything from woman chasing to dope addiction...
...Federal Judge Frank Wilson ruled out some of the testimony, because "we are not here to try domestic life." With Hoffa himself likely to take the stand this week, the trial seemed to be boiling down to his word against Partin...
This exhibit, however, did contain a lot of junk. For example, the fields of scratches that constituted Robert Partin's "Offing" and "In the Rain" surely did not merit showing. Nor did William Tokeshi's field of dashes; Tokeshi labeled it "No Title," and small wonder. Prizes of $250 went to four works, none of which was outstanding...