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...Lily-White Bench." At no time has Powell appeared in court on his own behalf. And last week he chose for the first time to give any public explanation of "my side of the case." He rose in the House of Representatives, where he could say whatever he wished and, under the U.S. Constitution, be legally free and clear of any threat of libel or slander...
Powell claimed that he was a victim of New York's "lily-white bench and underworld-controlled judges." Cops and crooks were in cahoots to prevent him from cleaning up Harlem's corruption. Prize example: Arthur Powers, a gambler, was shot to death last Oct. 20; the killers, Terry Lindsay, "Skippy" Martin and "Hank" Hawkins, were known, but "have been sheltered by the police." Moreover, Esther James, the 68-year-old domestic whom Powell had already libeled, was the "finger woman" for the murder...
...President Roosevelt appointed Frankfurter to the Supreme Court seat once held by Joseph Story. Story had taught at Harvard Law School while on the bench and Frankfurter too continued to be a teacher, although his formal connection with the school ended...
Connecticut's Supreme Court of Errors was obviously bothered by the case it was considering. The crime, said Judge John M. Comley speaking for a unanimous bench, was "particularly revolting and atrocious." Yet the conviction of Handyman Harlis Miller, serving a life sentence for the murder of Westport Matron Isabel Sillan, was reversed because it had been obtained with the aid of inadmissible evidence...
...thief named Richard Armstead took the stand before U.S. District Judge Alexander Holtzoff in Washington, D.C., to deny the latest robbery charge against him. Bring out his criminal record, snapped the judge. "Mr. Armstead," the prosecutor dutifully began. But Judge Holtzoff, who is 78 and has been on the bench 20 years, interrupted in a manner unexpected in the scrupulously courteous federal courts. "Don't address defendants as Mister," he said. "Witnesses and counsel should be addressed as Mr. or Mrs. or Miss, as the case may be, but not the defendant...