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...through his two trials for perjury and obstruction of justice, Lawyer Roy Cohn kept complaining that people in "high places" (meaning mainly Old Enemy Bobby Kennedy) were "out to get him." They didn't. Last week Senator Joe McCarthy's former committee counsel was acquitted on all counts in Federal District Court in Manhattan. The jury did not buy the Government claim that Cohn had tried to quash an indictment against some stock swindlers and later lied about his activities to a grand jury...
After four days of intense deliberation, the jury was only a hairbreadth away from a verdict in the federal trial of Lawyer Roy M. Cohn, charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. Once confident of a hung jury, Cohn paced nervously outside Manhattan's Foley Square Federal Court, fretting that "all bets are off." Then, in a stunning and unpredictable turn of the wheel, one juror's father suddenly died. After excusing her, Judge Archie O. Dawson declared a mistrial. Cohn, for the time being at least, was home free...
...onetime Wunderkind of McCarthy-committee fame was accused on seven counts of tampering with grand jury witnesses in order to quash a 1959 indictment against four swindlers in the $5,000,000 stock defrauding of United Dye & Chemical Corp. Cohn faced up to 35 years in prison and $26,000 in fines. During 17 days of testimony by 67 witnesses, two of the swindlers swore that they paid $50,000 to duck indictment, and they said that one-third of the money went to Cohn. Nearing the end of its deliberation, the jury reportedly stood eleven to one for convicting...
...restriction stems from the constitution: a criminal defendant in a federal trial is entitled to twelve jurors-no more, no less. As in the Cohn case, alternates are dismissed when the testimony ends. Says Rule 24-C of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure: "An alternate juror who does not replace a regular juror shall be discharged after the jury retires to consider its verdict." Judge Dawson had every right to excuse Mrs. Mabrey, although, under the circumstances, other judges might have considered a death in the family an insufficient excuse. Mrs. Mabrey had every right to leave, although other...
Other awards: Worst Supporting Actor (Roy Cohn in "Point of Order"), The Bratwurst for worst child actor (the entire cast of "Lord of the Flies"), the Cellophane Figleaf for false modesty (Ann Margret or "insisting she is not oversexed"), and the Woodward A. Wickham citation for consistency of performance (Steve Reeves in "Samson Agonistes...