Word: convictions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most unlikely case: the convict who concealed, in his colon, "a tool box containing a piece of gun barrel, a screw driver, two hack saws, a boring syringe, a file, several coins, thread and tallow." Instead of hacking or boring his way to freedom, the ingenious convict escaped his cell by dying of bowel obstruction...
...public pageantry that most Americans find boring. Called The Nazi Plan, it is the first full-length picture ever used as evidence in a criminal trial. Assembled by the Office of Strategic Services from Nazi propaganda films, this cinema history of the Nazi Party was made to help convict the accused at the Nürnberg war criminal trials...
...sought him out as they never had before. A few scholars and fellow poets saw in his case the ancient problem of the artist v. society. Jurists, who anticipated the most sensational case of its kind since the trial of Aaron Burr, wondered just how the U.S. proposed to convict its disaffected poet...
...Lomaxes discovered that a Negro folk musician would sing either religious or "sinful" songs, but seldom both. To find the "sinful made-up" songs they had to go where there were plenty of sinful Negroes-the State penitentiaries. On a Mississippi prison farm Convict Joe Baker (alias Seldom Seen) told them: "I never had been in no trouble wid de law . . . but one fellow kept messin' up my homely affairs, so I blowed him down." Then he sang...
...baldly charged her with lying on the stand. He told Joe: "I'm going to see that you get a new trial." But the State's Attorney's office did not agree. Joe got no new trial. Numbly, he kissed his wife and newborn son, became Convict 8356E, a lifer at Joliet...