The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, And The Plot That Brought Nixon Down - Plot & Excerpts
JUSTICE FOR THE DEFENDANTS AND THEIR HEIRS The Watergate defendants, particularly Mitchell, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman, were systematically and deliberately denied a fair trial. They faced a hanging judge whose numerous secret ex parte meetings with interested parties and prosecutors should appall anyone acquainted with the standards of judicial conduct and whose temporary sentencing ploy underscores his lack of objectivity. They were pursued by highly partisan prosecutors who favored their friends and punished their enemies. They were tried by jurors drawn from a hopelessly tainted and biased pool, a disadvantage the responsible judges refused to ameliorate. Finally, they had recourse only to a partisan appellate court that had been corrupted by an ex parte meeting between its chief judge and the special prosecutor. The assault on due process in the Watergate cover-up prosecution is all the more troubling because the key factual contentions of the leading defendants, John Mitchell, H. R.
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