Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judge, not U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey, had become their main adversary. Sometimes sallies flew so fast between judge and lawyers that the jurors swiveled their heads like a gallery at a tennis match. After only two weeks of such exchanges, the jury began to fidget wearily-but Judge Medina had been at it for nine weeks before the jury entered the box. He was growing a little tired, and a little testy...
...Prejudicial . . . misconduct," shouted Gladstein, Lawyer Harry Sacher demanded a mistrial. Eugene Dennis, top Red leader, acting as his own attorney, rose breathlessly to point out that "we do not take this trial lightly...
...Defense attorneys also had some definitions of their own for what they considered errors committed in Judge Medina's courtroom. As Attorney Richard Gladstein saw it, certain of the judge's remarks did not fit the Court's own definition of fairness, were prejudicial to the case. Gladstein wanted him to declare a mistrial. "I won't do it," said the judge. "If you expect me to sit here like a bump on a log you're making a big mistake...
...Attorney Harry Sacher said the judge tried to "negate" defense statements by his gestures. The way Sacher described them: "You scratched your head and pulled your ear." "When I scratch my head I'm just plain scratching my head," laughed Medina. "I have a habit of doing that and I'm not going to change it just because you don't like...
...Detective Story, his sixth play and the first since 1943, he worked for two years, haunting a Manhattan detective squad room, the District Attorney's office, judges' chambers. For a month he was on 24-hour-call with the Homicide Squad. The research finally got so rich that Kingsley went off to the country and wrote the play without looking at his notes. But, at a rehearsal, some 60 detectives seemed pleased with the results...