Word: belli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kafkaesque Fate. Ruby's murder trial, like his life, was a sordid circus. His principal attorney, flashy Melvin Belli, tried to convince the jury that Ruby was insane. But Belli's florid oratory and arrogant yelpings at the all-too-obvious ineptitude of Judge Joe B. Brown were not enough. The verdict was guilty; the sentence, death in the electric chair. The conviction was appealed by some of the 18 lawyers that Ruby had in the three years following his crime, and last October the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overthrew the finding on the grounds that Judge...
Loss of the Test. Attorney Frederick Cone, a partner of famed Tort Lawyer Melvin Belli, sought to prove that the kind of help rendered by Whittaker was standard. The defense involved the showing of models and color slides of gory operations, and the calling of big-name medical witnesses. A key issue was whether Dr. Stevenson had tried to get a licensed physician to assist him, at least in cases other than crash emergencies. Of the three cases before the jury, one was such an emergency. On this and one other count, the jury found both defendants not guilty...
Married. Melvin Belli, 59, California lawyer best known for his pyrotechnics in prosecuting negligence suits until he leaped to the defense of Jack Ruby in 1964; and Patricia Montandon, 34, San Francisco model; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Jozankei, a hot-springs resort in northern Japan, where, dressed in kimonos, they went through a Shinto ceremony...
...another image-improving move, the A.T.L.A. banned flamboyant Melvin M. Belli from its convention program. Belli, who once headed A.T.L.A., snorted: "This organization became great because it was once a vibrant force representing grass-roots lawyers who fought for the underdog. Now it's getting stuffy like the American Bar Association...
...Here and there his prose matches the cool, deadly manner of Swift in dealing in an offhand way with the totally outrageous. He is as gamy as Swift; there are some campus orgies, and sex is kid's play to Goat-Boy. Like Swift, who satirized the casus belli between Britain and France as a dispute between Bigendians and Littlendians, Barth parodies today's split between the technologically similar but ideologically dissimilar East and West. Yet his prime concern is with myth and religion, with the divine and the animal...