Word: acquitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory that violence is the only law such criminals know. The difficulty with the policy is, however ... it is likely to brutalize the police." In Kansas City, County Prosecutor W. W. Graves Jr. raised the stock objection that courtroom evidence of police brutality usually moves juries to acquit. "No policeman is justified in using brutality simply for brutality." declared Police Commissioner Theodore J. Roche of San Francisco. "It strikes me," declared Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz of Los Angeles, "as a little bit theatrical to stage a strong-arm act every time you make an arrest." Only Denver's Police Chief...
...their 30's, two in their 20's. They were a fairly representative cross-section of the middle class of U. S. business. Sitting in judgment on 17 representatives of the upper class of U. S. business, they took just three ballots to acquit them of dishonesty: 9 to 3, 11 to 1 and 12 to 0. Of all the two tons of government evidence they asked to see just three items during their secret deliberation: three letters exchanged between Insull officials and Arthur Young & Co., public accountants, as to whether stock dividends received by Insull...
...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...