§ 371 (1970), obstruction of justice, id. The counts of the indictment embraced conspiracy, 18 U.S.C. Parkinson, hired in June of 1972 as CRP's lawyer and Gordon Strachan, once a staff assistant to Haldeman at the White House. Mardian, earlier an Assistant Attorney General, then an official of CRP Kenneth W. Colson, former Special Counsel to the President Robert C. Ehrlichman, once Assistant for Domestic Affairs to the President Charles W. Haldeman, former Assistant to the President, serving basically as chief of the White House staff John D. Mitchell, former Attorney General of the United States and later head of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP), President Nixon's campaign organization for the 1972 election Harry R. It charged what amounted to an unprecedented scandal at the highest levels of government, for most of the defendants had held major positions in the Nixon administration. returned a 13-count indictment against seven individuals. PER CURIAM: The opinion in this case is issued per curiam not because it has received less than full consideration by the court, but because the complexity of the issues raised on appeal made it useful to share the effort required to draft this opinion among the members of the court. 74-110).īefore BAZELON, Chief Judge, and WRIGHT, McGOWAN, LEVENTHAL, ROBINSON, and MacKINNON, Circuit Judges, sitting en banc.ĭissenting opinion filed by MacKINNON, Circuit Judge. 76-1441.Īppeals from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (D.C. Prosecutor, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee in No. Glazer, Atty., Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee in Nos. Prosecutor at the time the brief was filed, Peter F. Kreindler, Washington, D.C., Counsel to the Sp. Erdahl, and Cary Mark Feldman, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellant in No. Hundley, Washington, D.C., with whom Plato Cacheris, Robert S. Frates and Hall were on the brief for appellant Ehrlichman in No. Hall, Miami, Fla., was on the brief, for appellant in No. William Snow Frates, Miami, Fla., with whom Andrew C. Strickler and O'Donoghue were on the brief for appellant Haldeman in No. Fisher (at the time the case was argued), Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellant in No. Strickler, Ross O'Donoghue, and George A. Wilson, Washington, D.C., with whom Frank H.
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