"We don't say you are innocent of the crime charged against you; we only say there is not evidence enough to convict you."

Mr. Gigante is not heard on any of the tapes - just as he has not been linked to the crimes charged by firsthand testimony.

"Facts about some one else," cried the girl, "that would prove another guilty of the crime charged against you!"

A convenient forgettery, an inadvertent falsehood, sure - but if there is no crime charged, where is the guilty intent to cover up?

Raise Reasonable Doubt: Deny any involvement in the crime charged and claim that it was committed by someone else.

Moreover, the complex crime charged by the government against Hernandez has been successfully imposed with other arrested communist leaders and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

He was the board's vice president when, the authorities say, the crimes charged in his Federal and state indictments took place.

"The respondent's identity and adult age, the crime charged and other pervasive information regarding the investigation are known nationwide," she wrote.

Interestingly enough, one of the crimes charged to Jezebel, according to the historian Josephus, was the planting of trees.

In both Caldwell and Leeper, murder indictments were challenged because they allegedly gave inadequate notice of the crimes being charged.