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The appellate court, sitting in New York, concluded that, while the evidence showed that she was guilty, FBI agents had lied under oath about the bugging.

Moreover, the opinion said, the failure to get a warrant was not justified.

The court overturned the verdict, but the indictment was not dismissed.

In the appeal of the Washington trial, the verdict was upheld, but, because of the possible bugging, a new trial became impossible.

For political and evidentiary reasons it never took place.

Due to these legal irregularities, she was never retried and the government ultimately dropped the case in 1967.