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...federal statutes, including the antitrust laws, the Atomic Energy Act and the Securities Exchange Act. Not one of these 20-odd statutes carries a jury-trial provision, and expert opinion holds that many of them, because of their complexity, would be unenforceable if it took a jury trial to convict a defendant of contempt...
...came the young lawyer's first case. The client: a farmer charged with shotgunning a neighbor to death. The trial came on John Diefenbaker's 24th birthday. The crown prosecutor made a solid case, and the judge issued a strong charge, all but directing the jury to convict. Instead, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Later, Diefenbaker met the foreman and asked how the jury reached its decision. "We talked it over," said the foreman, "and somebody said: 'After all, it's the kid's first case.' Then somebody else said...
...state penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, where he is serving a life sentence for bludgeoning his wife to death three years ago, 35-year-old Dr. Sam Sheppard was told that a 23-year-old convict and drug addict named Donald Wedler had confessed to the crime in Florida, and that a lie detector test indicated he was telling the truth. Unemotional at the news-24 other persons have signed similar "confessions"-Dr. Sam nevertheless agreed for the first time since the slaying to take a lie detector test himself. Shown a picture of Wedler, he said he had a "vague...
...comic scenes that approach the .best in Sean O'Casey, as when a shrewd old lag with a game leg solicits a massage from a warder in order to get drunk on rubbing alcohol. "Which leg is it?" asks the warder. "To be on the safe side," says Convict Dunlavin, "you'd have to do two of them. It's only the mercy of God I'm not a centipede, sir ... Ah, that's massive, sir. 'Tis you that has the healing hand." The warder turns, and Dunlavin sneaks a great swig from...
...Dean Erwin Griswold, a leading advocate of the anything-goes school of Fifth Amendment pleading. And a concurring opinion by Justice Hugo Black (with Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justices William Douglas and William J. Brennan) argued that the use of the Fifth Amendment should neither "discredit" nor "convict" any person...