Judge William Peckham person
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▶ 36:27
But Zaid says, I don't know who they are. These letters could come from anybody. I don't know if Iverson has ever spoken with them personally. I don't know how he can vouch for him. It's just a letter. The prosecutor told Peckham that it wa…
▶ 36:55
After holding two hearings in secrecy in his chamber, Peckham had the lawyers come to his courtroom on July 16, 1984, to hear his decision. Prosecutor Zinaides again complained that he was being kept in the dark about the identity of the of…
▶ 37:27
The concern, I suppose, is that these people will be intimidated, the judge said, not necessarily expressly. They are revolutionaries in Nicaragua. They want to overturn the Nicaraguan government, as I understand it, the Contras. They are b…
▶ 39:32
Zaid says that just doesn't add up. The defense responds, there is a far more dangerous situation in Costa Rica than an informant in the U.S. Peckham intervened. Quote, they fear, you see, that there will be disclosures made, the judge expl…
▶ 40:56
That is fairly well documented. I don't think there's any question that they are down there and intimately involved in the group that is trying to overthrow the Sandinista government. So apparently everybody knew, even the judge. Judge Peck…
▶ 41:24
Peckham granted the defense motion to fly to Costa Rica for the purpose of taking depositions of the two people that signed the letter. Six days later, the Costa Rican CIA station fired off a cable to Langley to warn that a federal prosecut…
▶ 46:09
Judge Peckham. I think it ought to be made public, he said. Why should we not make it public? What is there left to keep? Your Honor, if I could comment on that, the judge abruptly cut off the prosecutor and he said, I'm going to make it pu…
▶ 46:37
The judge then said, I'm ordering it made public. It's unsealed, the judge said. I don't have to put it that way. I will just order it unsealed. Very well. May I obtain a copy from the clerk? Certainly. So I will sign this. There's no restr…
▶ 47:07
They had put the Contras right in the middle of the biggest cocaine bust in California's history. Zinaides went running back to Judge Peckham with a request that he make them secret again until the government could have a private presentati…
▶ 47:38
Peckham issued an order that afternoon resealing the records he'd made public only that morning. Five days later, Zinaids filed a three-paragraph agreement that said simply that the United States will not introduce the $36,000 in their case…