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...Berlin as the trial closed last week Judge Hoepke, to his intense embarrassment, found it necessary to acquit Dr. Hirtsiefer and his four alleged accomplices for lack of evidence. "The ending of this trial with an acquittal must seem surprising and unaccountable to the public." said Judge Hoepke. "Nobody regrets more than the court that its judgment conflicts with public opinion. . . . This is to be traced back to the fact that the public was not correctly informed by the Press...
...error next day Laborite Jones humbly apologized to Sir Austen in the House: "I am the more grieved that I made the statement because it was applied to a right honorable member whose unfailing courtesy has won the unstinted admiration of the whole House. I hope the House will acquit me of any malicious intent, and in offering my apology to the right honorable member himself, I hope he will find it possible to forgive, if not to forget...
...Money was plentiful. The mad orgy was on. Speculation was encouraged not only by bankers greedy for profits but by the very Government itself. In one aspect the people themselves were to blame; but in another every rule of fair play, every principle of forthrightness and honesty acquit those ignorant of finance and transfer the guilt to the international bankers who coined the ignorance and confidence of their customers. ... If ever there was a racket imposed upon the American people, that racket is the racket that has been played upon American investors by the international bankers with the securities they...
...defense did not even need to call its witnesses. As soon as the sketchy pleas of the prosecution had been presented. Judge Charles C. Nott Jr. directed the jury to acquit the prisoner...
Montesquieu regarded the severity of laws as a definite hindrance to their execution. Juries will acquit and Grand Juries will not indict where a majority in the community oppose such sumptuary laws as is the Prohibition...