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On June 5, 1968, United States Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy was murdered at the Ambassador Hotel.  Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of the murder.  Convinced that Sirhan Sirhan was innocent, Lawrence Teeter became Sirhan Sirhan's attorney in 1994, over 25 years later.  Larry's intention was to have the case retried.


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Our friend and theater patron, Larry Teeter, became the attorney for the Stewart family when we fought the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency to try to stop the conversion and subsequent destruction of our personal property,  eminent domain and demolition of the buildings that housed our Ebony Showcase Theatre.   He was a fighter against redevelopment abuse who also represented others who were fighting to save their property from  being taken in eminent domain.    Later Larry tried to stop the demolition of the Ambassador Hotel where Robert Kennedy was murdered. 

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Lawrence Teeter stated: " Sirhan Sirhan was arrested and later wrongfully convicted for the murder. Reopen the RFK (Robert F. Kennedy) Assassination Case.   Sirhan Sirhan is Not Guilty."


SIRHAN SIRHAN: A TRUE "MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE"
by Lawrence Teeter
Attorney for Sirhan Sirhan

 

"At first glance, the RFK case seems open and shut. After all, Sirhan Sirhan was arrested with a gun in hand at the scene. There the simplicity ends, however. There is an abundance of evidence which refutes the official version of this crime. The Sirhan Sirhan case should be reopened."


Sirhan Sirhan was wrongfully convicted of the June 5, 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy ("RFK"). Sirhan was a true "Manchurian Candidate." He was programmed through hypnosis to fire shots in the presence of Senator Kennedy without knowing what he was doing and without being able to recall or explain his actions or the programming process. Operatives connected with the CIA's MKULTRA program and Operation Artichoke could well have accomplished this remarkable instance of life imitating film. What follows is a discussion of evidence demonstrating Sirhan's status as a true "Manchurian Candidate" and a discussion of why this exonerating information did not come out at trial.

I have represented Sirhan since 1994 in ongoing state and federal habeas corpus proceedings challenging his conviction along with efforts to obtain his release on parole. Sirhan Sirhan is innocent. He did not shoot Robert F. Kennedy, and he was set up to appear to be guilty. His trial was a show trial designed to cover up the vast right-wing conspiracy which staged what amounted to the forcible installation of a Republican president in 1968. Richard Nixon's presidency became possible because of the RFK assassination. It is generally agreed that but for his assassination, Senator Robert F. Kennedy would have won the Democratic Party nomination and would have defeated Richard Nixon in the general election. Senator Kennedy had promised to end the Vietnam war if elected to the presidency. The anti-war movement had forced President Johnson to withdraw as a candidate for reelection, and Johnson's Vice-President, Hubert Humphrey, almost defeated Nixon after the assassination once he began to distance himself from Johnson's pro-war policies. Once he was elected, Nixon escalated and expanded the war into other countries.

The trial of Sirhan was designed to conceal Sirhan's innocence. This was possible because prior to the trial, the prosecution blackmailed Sirhan's trial attorney into throwing the case. What followed was a classic show trial in which the prosecution and "defense" conspired to falsify reality and cover up a massive plot to block the election of Senator Robert F. Kennedy to the presidency. Two months before the RFK assassination, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed in Memphis after having announced opposition to the Vietnam war and vowing to unite the anti-war and civil rights movements.


FEDERAL AGENCIES BEGAN THE COVER-UP EVEN
BEFORE THE ASSASSINATION


The blackmailing of chief Sirhan defense attorney Grant Cooper arises from the pre-assassination activities of John Roselli, who was involved in the CIA's plot to assassinate Fidel Castro. The CIA recruited Roselli to involve other top Mafia figures in the plot to kill Castro so that the U.S. government could deny responsibility for the assassination, which was being orchestrated in response to Castro's nationalization of U.S. corporate and Mafia holdings in Cuba. In 1966, after those assassination operations were supposedly abandoned, FBI agents approached Roselli and confronted him with the fact that he and his mother had entered the United States under false names. Roselli was told that the FBI would keep this information secret if he would cooperate with that agency. Roselli's lawyer, James Cantillon, called the FBI agents and attempted to set up a meeting. Agents told Cantillon that they would not meet with Roselli if Cantillon were present and refused to tell Cantillon what they wished to discuss. Roselli then met with the FBI outside Cantillon's presence. In January of 1968, Roselli participated in bribing a court reporter and obtained secret grand jury transcripts in the then-pending Friars Club card cheating trial, in which Roselli was a defendant. Roselli then distributed these transcripts to defense counsel in the case, including his own lawyer, James Cantillon. Another attorney to whom the transcripts were illegally distributed as a direct result of actions by Roselli and his confederates was Grant Cooper.

After the RFK assassination on June 5, 1968, Grant Cooper agreed to represent Sirhan. (Cooper had been recommended by ACLU attorney A.L. Wirin, who had earlier publicly defended the Warren Commission Report--a document which asserted that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by one person acting alone and that no conspiracy was involved.) The prosecutor in the Friars Club case then promptly purported to discover one of these stolen transcripts lying atop Cooper's papers at counsel table--a location to which Roselli had access as a co-defendant of Cooper's client in that case. Documents available at the California State Archives include a December 23, 1968 LAPD memo stating that Cooper's indictment was anticipated within the next one or two days. Another such document is a January 3, 1969 memo reporting that a senior FBI agent was monitoring Cooper's "dilemma." On January 6, 1969, Cooper then advised the Sirhan trial judge that he might be indicted but that after speaking with U.S. Attorney William Matthew Byrne, Jr., he concluded that his indictment was inconceivable. (Byrne was part of an inter-agency task force on the RFK assassination case). Warren Commission apologist Wirin appeared in the judge's chambers that day to advise Sirhan that he should continue being represented by Cooper--even though Wirin would certainly have recognized that Cooper suffered from a dangerous conflict of interest because he faced possible indictment by an agency participating in the prosecution team. 1 Having avoided possible discharge by Sirhan with the help of Wirin and a silent trial judge, Cooper then threw the case (see below) and assisted the prosecution in covering up the RFK assassination conspiracy. After Sirhan's conviction and death verdict, Cooper was allowed to plead guilty to two counts of contempt, but U.S. Attorney Byrne wrote a sentencing memorandum stating that Cooper's crime was so serious that no sentencing recommendation would be made! Cooper was simply ordered to pay a $1000 fine. Roselli, a defendant in the Friars Club case and in an immigration fraud case, was not even indicted in the transcripts case and received a light sentence in the immigration matter involving his concealment of his true name upon entry into the country. Roselli remained in contact with CIA officials involved in the early 1960's plot to murder Fidel Castro even after the 1968 RFK assassination. Roselli lawyer James Cantillon, who could have defended himself by claiming that he was entrapped by the FBI and Roselli into taking the transcripts, was never charged with possessing them, and the far more limited case against him (failing to respond to the court's inquiry regarding the transcripts) was dismissed by the court.


THE MASSIVE OFFICIAL COVER-UP


As a result of both (1) the blackmailing of defense attorney Cooper and his resultant collaboration with the prosecution and (2) the systematic withholding and falsification of evidence by the prosecution, the jury which convicted Sirhan never knew the following:

1. Senator Kennedy was shot in the back and from behind. Yet all witnesses placed Sirhan as standing face-to-face in front of RFK.

2. Sirhan's gun was placed by all witnesses at between 2 and 5 feet from the victim, but the autopsy report states that the distance between the assailant's gun and the victim was between 1 and 2 inches.

3. The shots entering the victim's body were fired at a sharp upward angle, but the defendant was seen by all witnesses to hold his gun horizontally.

4. The autopsy report which exonerates the defendant was withheld from the court and the defense by prosecutors for at least four months, until after defense counsel had conceded to the jury that their client was the killer--something which the autopsy report demonstrates to be impossible.

5. Thane Eugene Cesar, a recently-hired part-time private security guard who worked full-time for Lockheed Aircraft, admitted to police that he was standing behind and in actual contact with Senator Kennedy, that he dropped down into a crouching position and that he pulled his gun when the shooting began. This account puts the security guard and not the defendant in position to have shot RFK.

6. Cesar falsely advised police that he had sold his .22 revolver before the crime. A receipt proves that it was actually sold after the crime. One witness, media assistant Don Schulman, stated that Cesar actually fired his gun during the assassination. The prosecution ignored and even pressured this witness along with others whose accounts suggested a conspiracy.

7. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) never test fired Cesar's gun or even asked to see it once Cesar admitted having been in position to have fired the shots which struck RFK. The FBI was later told that the gun had been stolen from the home of the person who purchased it from Cesar.

8. The police inventory accounted for eight .22 cal. bullets discharged at the crime scene. Seven were removed from victims, and the eighth was described as having been lost in the ceiling.
A police officer observed police criminalists dig two bullets out of a door frame in the pantry area within which the victim was killed, bringing to 10 the total number of shots that were fired during the attack.

9. These extra bullets were never disclosed to the defense or the court and were never mentioned in the police property report. The police and prosecution have continued to deny their existence.

10. FBI documents describe holes depicted in the pantry door frame as "bullet holes", and William Bailey, the first FBI agent on the scene, has stated that he saw a bullet in one such hole. An AP photograph shows a bullet lodged in a door frame.

11. The police continue to maintain that only one gun was fired during the attack. The FBI has never deviated from its endorsement of this view, which is inconsistent with its own photographs and inventory as well as the observations of the first FBI agent on the crime scene.

12. The police test fired two different weapons and obtained test shots from both but have continued to claim that only one gun was involved in the case.

13. A police photograph with the police "DR number" for this case shows a different weapon than the one introduced into evidence at trial.

14. The second gun that was test fired by police as though it had been recovered at the crime scene was in police custody even before the attack.

15. The police continued to claim that this gun was available to the defense during the trial. However, it was actually destroyed by police within less than 2 months after the assassination, long before the trial's commencement.

16. The police created a "comparison photomicrograph" ("Special Exhibit 10") which they claimed showed a match between a test bullet fired from the defendant's gun and the bullet that was removed from the murder victim's neck. In 1975, a panel of experts concluded that this photomicrograph showed a match between two different victim bullets. A report prepared during this 1975 examination proves that the bullets viewed by the experts at that time were actually different from the ones that were removed from the victims in this case. Thus, the police created a photograph showing a match between two fake victim bullets and then claimed that their exhibit proved the defendant's guilt. This photograph depicting fraudulent bullets was made less than 48 hours after the assassination.

17. Although security guards left the scene without their guns being checked, a 15 year old who photographed the attack was thrown to the ground and arrested at gun point. His camera and film were seized. No photographs of the attack were ever made available to the defense or the court. (When the photographer, James Scott Enyart, requested the return of his films from the State Archives 20 years later, he was told that his films were probably among 2,410 photographs connected with this case that were burned by police in a hospital incinerator less than 3 months after the attack. Enyart brought suit. Police investigators then claimed to have themselves found the young photographer's pictures at the Archives. Because these photographs did not show the shooting itself and were taken on film different from the film he used, the photographer requested their transport to Los Angeles so that they could be examined for possible signs of alteration or substitution. The suspect photographs then disappeared after supposedly being stolen from the car of a state-selected courier. A Los Angeles jury awarded the photographer over half a million dollars in a verdict. The verdict was successfully appealed, but the City settled rather than risk a retrial.)

Apologists for the prosecution like to assert that only honest mistakes were made. Yet our petitions and exhibits demonstrate a number of instances in which the prosecution and police engaged in demonstrably intentional misconduct. Here are some examples--in addition to the overriding fact that defense counsel was blackmailed by the prosecution and made a deal to save himself (see above):

1. Withholding a document showing that according to a police officer witness, someone followed Sirhan into a police firing range on June 1, 1968 (three days before election day) and signed Sirhan's name into the roster to show practice-firing by the fall-guy-to-be! In other words, Sirhan had a handler (see below). The defense never saw this document, which I found in 2002.

2. Concocting Special Exhibit 10; (See paragraph 16 above).

3. Withholding the autopsy report until after defense counsel had conceded Sirhan's status as the assassin--a concession that is refuted by the autopsy report itself;

4. Lying to the court in December of 1968 by falsely representing that the autopsy report, which was completed in September or October of 1968, was not yet available;

5. Incinerating 2,410 assassination-related photographs;

6. Suppressing a photograph of a second gun connected with this case;

7. Suppressing extra bullets removed from the crime scene door frames, door jam and possibly ceiling panels;

8. Destroying the pantry door frames, door jam and ceiling panels before Sirhan's appeal process even commenced;

9. After admitting in the judge's chambers that the prosecution could not authenticate the bullets supposedly involved in the crime, offering substitute bullets into evidence, without disclosing that they were fraudulent (see paragraph 16 above).

10. Destroying the second gun during the month after the assassination and then suppressing the fact of this destruction;

11. Test firing the second gun as a crime scene weapon and then suppressing the fact that test bullets used for police identification purposes were the result of this test firing.

12. Withholding the entire Sheriff's Department file on this case from the defense prior to and during the trial;

13. Withholding from the defense the vast bulk of the LAPD and FBI files on this case;

14. Offering into evidence a gun that was never identified as Sirhan's by any witness and which was materially different from the weapon observed in Sirhan's possession at a gun range on election day by the only witness to describe Sirhan's gun with any specificity.

I have listed only some of the instances in which the prosecution intentionally and deliberately suppressed, altered, destroyed or fabricated material evidence prior to, during or immediately following the trial. There are many acts of misconduct which have taken place during and since that time.

SIRHAN WAS SET UP AND IS COMPLETELY INNOCENT

Overwhelming evidence establishes that Sirhan was in a hypnotic trance during the assassination as a result of programming. World renowned hypnosis expert Herbert Spiegel, M.D., a New York psychiatrist who teaches at Columbia University, has cited the following facts in support of this conclusion:

1. The trial record confirms that Sirhan was an outstanding hypnotic subject who had been extensively hypnotized before the assassination.

2. During pre-trial sessions in jail, Sirhan obeyed hypnotic commands to climb the bars of his cell like a monkey and had no memory of the programming which had just taken place in his cell.

3. During such pre-trial sessions, Sirhan was asked in trance to describe Robert Kennedy and wrote out repetitions of such phrases as "RFK must die"--language strikingly similar to similarly repetitious writing in a notebook found in Sirhan's room at home. Dr. Spiegel concludes that the seemingly damning notebook passage was also written under hypnosis before the assassination.

4. Sirhan shivered as though experiencing cold when coming out of trance in his cell, and he experienced the same symptoms immediately after the assassination.

5. Sirhan was unable to reenact the assassination under hypnosis in his cell, suggesting that he had been programmed to forget.

6. Although not a drinker, Sirhan inexplicably drank four Tom Collins hard liquor drinks right before the assassination and has continued to experience complete amnesia of the shooting in spite of hypnosis sessions to restore his memory. Use of alcohol in trance deepens the amnesia flowing from the trance experience.

7. Sirhan had no motive to kill RFK and declared before trial that he would have voted for him in the election.

8. Sirhan stated before trial that a girl had led him into a dark place at the hotel (the pantry assassination scene), at which time he blacked out and could remember nothing. When asked in trance whether anyone was with him, he wrote out, "girl the girl the girl" but then shut down when asked her name. A number of witnesses saw Sirhan with a young woman in a polka dot dress, and the LAPD intimidated the most notable of these witnesses into backing away from their observations. At trial, Sirhan testified that he met such a women at a coffee urn at the Ambassador Hotel and that she asked him to pour her a cup of coffee with a lot of cream and a lot of sugar. Sirhan then blacked out and regained consciousness when being attacked by enraged RFK supporters in the pantry after Kennedy's shooting. Sirhan has consistently maintained that he has no memory of having shot anyone.

9. Sirhan's lack of motive to kill RFK forced prosecutors and a cooperative defense to make up a motive. Prosecutors theorized that Sirhan came to hate RFK because of his support for President Johnson's plan to sell 50 U.S. Phantom jets to Israel. This theory was based upon the fact that the key notebook page containing the RFK Must Die language is dated May 18, 1968. Lawyers on both sides conceded that Sirhan heard a broadcast about RFK's support for the Phantom Jet sale on that date. In fact, the broadcast in the Los Angeles area referring to RFK's support for Israel came later, and it made no mention of the planned Phantom Jet sale. The Phantom Jet motive was in fact a phantom motive. All presidential candidates supported the planned jet sale. RFK and Nixon sharply differed on Vietnam, and this is where the RFK assassination actually changed the course of U.S. foreign policy by leading to Nixon's prolonged escalation and expansion instead of RFK's promised withdrawal.

10. Someone followed Sirhan into the Corona Police Department gun range on June 1, 1968, and signed Sirhan's name in the roster, creating a record that Sirhan was practicing before the assassination of June 5. The range master who observed this apparent "handler" was a Corona police officer who was not called by the prosecution at trial. The officer was purportedly out of town when the issue arose at trial, and the defense was never told about his observations.

11. On primary election day, June 4, 1968, Sirhan signed the roster of another gun range several names below the name of "LAPD Officer Lee"--an odd setting for a dry run of an assassination that night but an innocuous setting for what Sirhan regarded as recreational shooting. Sirhan would later state that he was climbing the bars of his cell like a monkey simply because he wanted to do so and rejected the suggestion that he was complying with a signal which he had just been instructed under hypnosis to obey by performing this act.

12. A stage hypnotist has advised that Sirhan volunteered to be a subject during a public demonstration two years before the assassination and that at that time, Sirhan appeared to have been hypnotized before and was an excellent hypnotic subject. Sirhan could have been spotted and targeted by this means.

Defenders of the prosecution assert that Sirhan admitted at trial to having shot RFK. Actually, Sirhan testified that he had no memory of having shot anyone but that he was told by his attorneys that this is what happened and that this is accordingly what must have happened. Incredibly, defense attorney Grant Cooper allowed prosecution psychiatrist Seymour Pollack to interview and hypnotize Sirhan both with and outside the presence of defense counsel! The tape of one such session discloses that psychiatrists attempted to coerce Sirhan into reenacting the RFK assassination under hypnosis. The attempt failed.

Defenders of the prosecution also point to Sirhan's "admission" at trial that he "killed Robert Kennedy wilfully, premeditatively, with twenty years malice aforethought." What they fail to mention is that this remark was simply an outburst by Sirhan during a dispute with defense attorney Grant Cooper about the calling of witnesses. When the judge admonished Sirhan that his attorney was in charge of the case, Sirhan purported to offer to plead guilty and made the above-quoted remark. Such an outburst proves nothing, of course. In fact, Sirhan did not even know of Robert F. Kennedy twenty years before the trial and would have been a small child at the time.


DEFENSE COUNSEL'S ROLE AS A SECOND PROSECUTOR



1. Cooper advised the jury that Sirhan shot and killed RFK, thereby leaving Sirhan open to the death penalty. He did this even before he saw the autopsy report, which proved otherwise. Even after having finally been given the autopsy report, Cooper continued to concede that Sirhan was RFK's killer. The autopsy report establishes that Sirhan was out of position and out of range and could not have fired any of the shots which struck the Senator.
2. Aware of the autopsy report's contents long before revealing it to the defense, the prosecution knew that Sirhan was actually not even eligible for the death penalty under then-applicable law.
Prosecutors knew that a trial risked exposure of someone else's responsibility for the shooting and killing of RFK. Los Angeles County District Attorney Evelle Younger, whose office actually prosecuted Sirhan, therefore offered Sirhan a chance to plead guilty to murder without facing the risk of the death penalty.
Cooper told Sirhan, who knew nothing about the crime, that the prosecution had an open-and-shut case against him and that he should accept the prosecution's offer. When the judge advised that he would refuse to approve any such plea unless the prosecution remained free to ask for a death verdict, Cooper went on record as advising the court that he was in favor of a guilty plea even under such circumstances, which gave Sirhan nothing in exchange for pleading guilty to a murder he could not have committed.

3. Prosecutors told Cooper during a hearing in the judge's chambers that it was impossible to authenticate bullets in the case. Cooper responded that he had no objection to the use of such bullets as evidence. This cleared the way for the prosecution to present testimony by LAPD criminalist DeWayne Wolfer that test bullets from the so-called Sirhan revolver conclusively matched victim bullets in the case. Cooper could have blocked or at least countered such testimony by pointing out that the bullets were inauthentic.

4. Cooper ignored the avalanche of evidence pointing toward Sirhan's having been programmed through hypnosis to fire shots in an unconscious state without recalling anything, He also assisted the prosecution's presentation of its "phantom" motive and argued that Sirhan planned the attack but was a paranoid schizophrenic and deserved to be convicted of second degree murder. Sirhan Sirhan was convicted and sentenced to death by a jury which was told by the compromised "defense" team that Sirhan was a paranoid schizophrenic rather than a victim of mind-control manipulation by others. Schizophrenics have a very low level of hypnotizability, in dramatic contrast to Sirhan Sirhan, whom Dr. Spiegel describes as a "hypnosis virtuoso."

The California Supreme Court reversed the death verdict after having previously held in another case that California's then-pending death penalty statute was unconstitutional. However, the Court left intact Sirhan's conviction. Sirhan Sirhan has remained in custody since 1968, and his requests for release on parole have been consistently denied. Although a number of witnesses saw other guns and shooters at the time, the official version remains that the case is solved and closed. No one else has ever been arrested or considered a suspect by the police.

It should be noted that after Sirhan's conviction, William Matthew Byrne, Jr., the U.S. Attorney who participated in Sirhan's prosecution and whose office's actions relating to Cooper are described above, was nominated to the federal bench by President Nixon. 2 Judge Byrne remains a sitting senior judge in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, where Sirhan's Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus remains pending. As things stand now, Sirhan's extensive challenge to his conviction will be initially decided by a magistrate judge. All magistrate judges serve at the pleasure of the district judges, one of whom is Judge Byrne. Efforts to transfer the case in the interests of justice are continuing but have so far been unsuccessful.

Incredibly, the "Manchurian Candidate" aspect of the case was never presented on Sirhan's behalf in any proceeding until I became his attorney, years after his conviction and years after that conviction was affirmed on direct appeal. This is also true of most of the evidence discussed above, including the all-important role of the U.S. government in blackmailing Grant Cooper and turning him into a second prosecutor.

The fight to reopen Sirhan's case and win his freedom continues in ongoing legal proceedings. What you have just read is an extremely brief summary of points raised in Sirhan's case. These and other points are supported by documentary evidence on file with the California Supreme Court and the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

I am frequently asked, "Who was behind the assassination?" First, it is well known that the CIA had perfected the technique of using hypnosis and drugs to program subjects to carry out criminal acts, including murder, without being able to recall the acts or the programming process. The CIA programs through which these techniques were perfected were MKULTRA and Operation Artichoke. The U.S. Military had similar programs in place at the time. The RFK assassination made possible a continuation of the Vietnam War, a pet project of the CIA and the Pentagon. Secondly, Sirhan's role as an innocent man was never brought out at trial due to the fact that Sirhan's chief lawyer had been blackmailed by federal agencies in a scheme which began even before the assassination. This is far more sinister than film fantasies which portray federal agencies as trying to stop a right wing coup. In the RFK case, federal agencies laid the foundations for a cover-up even before the assassination took place and then made certain--together with local "law enforcement"--that a trial would not expose the truth.
Footnotes:

1. A number of ACLU attorneys served as FBI informants, and one personally reported to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.

2. As a matter of historical interest, it is worthy of note that President Nixon then offered Judge Byrne the position of FBI Director. This job offer was extended during Judge Byrne's handling of the celebrated "Pentagon Papers"" case against Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo. The Pentagon Papers consisted of a secret study describing war crimes and extensive human rights abuses carried out by the United States in Vietnam, and their publication in the "New York Times" enraged Nixon and further discredited his attempt to justify his continuation, excalation and expansion of the Vietnam war. Accordingly, the administration charged Ellsberg and Russo with espionage for giving this study to the press. When the job offer and other acts of government misconduct were finally disclosed by the prosecution, the case was dismissed in response to a defense motion. Other acts of misconduct included White House involvement in a burglary targeting the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist and the cover-up of this burglary. The burglary and cover-up then became one basis for Articles of Impeachment adopted by the House Judiciary Committee forcing Nixon's resignation as president. Missing from both the Articles of Impeachment and Judge Byrne's order listing grounds for dismissing the Ellsberg-Russo indictment was Nixon's offer during the trial to appoint Judge Byrne to the position of Director of the FBI.



Lawrence Teeter, Attorny for Sirhan Sirhan Lawrence Teeter (deceased), Attorney for Sirhan Bishara Sirhan
Summer, 2004

Copyright 2004 by Lawrence Teeter

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