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104-10219-10018 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (11/20/1972)

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.       Memorandum

TO       Director,  Domestic Contact Service
ATTN:     Services.Division


FOM : Chief, Miami Field Office


SUBJECT:  Joseph R. Merola



               1. We  recently received a call from Joseph R. Merola, Gordon
          Cooper and Associates, Opa-Locka, Florida, who informed us that he
          was entering the county jail in Nassau County, New York on 13 Novem-
          ber 1972 to begin a one year sentence for petty larceny. He stated
          that he felt he should let us know his whereabouts in case you wanted
          to get hold of me for anything.

               2. Merola,  of course, protested his innocence to us and stated
          that he was accused of participating in an armed robbery and was tried
          on this charge in May 1972 with the trial ending in a hung jury. He
          claimed that the prosecuting attorney recommended dismissal of the
          charges because of his inability to prove Merola's guilt. Merola
          alleges that the judge stated that Merola's record proves him an un-
          desirable character and therefore the charges should not be dropped.
          The judge thereupon offered him the -choice of a retrial with a promise
          of a twenty-five year sentence if convicted, or to plead guilty to a
          charge of petty larceny with a one year sentence. Merola choose the
          latter.

               3. We  thanked him for his thoughtfuiness and wished him well.


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