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...Driscoll's defense also brought forward 15 impressive character witnesses, including Louis Nichols, the FBI's ex-No. 2 man and now executive vice president of Schenley Industries. They all testified to his good reputation. Driscoll got a hung jury: six jurors voted to convict, six to acquit for insanity. So he, too, may be retried...
Schwarzbach's argument helped convince a Chicago jury that it should acquit Escobedo of unlawful use of weapons. Last March, as he was sitting in his car outside a restaurant where one of his friends got into a brawl, Danny himself was arrested for disorderly conduct and charged with having a loaded pistol under the front seat. But, testified Danny, he had lawfully bought the gun in his own name, and was simply transporting it. Besides, it was broken into four parts, wrapped in a rag under the seat, and therefore was a non-weapon...
...brash, bright F. (for Francis) Lee Bailey is the hottest criminal lawyer in the U.S. Last month he got a Cleveland jury to acquit Dr. Sam Sheppard of killing his wife; this week comes the sex-tinged murder trial of Dr. Carl Coppolino in New Jersey; after that, the Boston Strangler. Only six years out of law school, Bailey already compares himself to "Clarence" (meaning Darrow), though his monumental self-assurance might not yet convince William Jennings (meaning Bryan...
...cured harm is no harm, as when a defendant returns stolen money; they resist penalizing a defendant who corrupts the already corrupted, as in the statutory rape of an unchaste girl. In repeated cases of indecent exposure, a jury tends to convict if the victim is a child, to acquit if the victim is an adult woman...
This year's show does not, however, serve the car as well as it serves the eye -- either in its actual music or its word-music. The performers generally acquit themselves with moderate success, but not much more. Twelfth Nights is an ensemble show; no one or two players can make or break it, for these are no truly starring roles...