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...said that it is very difficult to fix the responsibility for these errors. There is no reason to suppose that holding the trial in Dallas affected the verdict. But in his opinion, both Judge Joe B. Brown, who tried the case, and Melvin M. Belli, Ruby's chief counsel, "conducted themselves badly...
...Belli's Outburst Contemptuous...
Howe felt that Belli's violent emotional outburst after the verdict of guilty was delivered was contemptuous. Arthur F. Sutherland, Bussey Professor of Law, however, indicated that such a reaction is not extraordinary in a capital case, where the lawyer becomes deeply involved, emotionally in his client's fate...
...Defense Attorney Melvin Belli was on his feet, red-faced and shouting. He demanded a mistrial, cried that Dean's testimony was "incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial...
Allen W. McCoy, 40, a big, Texas A & M-educated industrial engineer for a Dallas steel fabricator, of whom Defense Attorney Melvin Belli said: "I liked him, but not entirely from the start. Ruby liked him from the start...