Word: court
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough, acted at last. When the Communists' lawyers tried to outshout him, as they had so often done before, Medina peremptorily ordered them to "sit down," and had marshals see that they complied. "Your field day is over," Medina snapped. In Manhattan's Federal Court, the eleven defendants (accused of conspiracy to teach the violent overthrow of the U.S.) looked stunned. Even the lawyers seemed a bit subdued...
After Kutner took the case (he likes to take on "charity cases" which intrigue him), he discovered that all important court records were destroyed or missing. But Lawyer Kutner's investigators did obtain a medical report submitted by a Dr. John E. Walter of Waukegan the day after the crime. It showed that Mamie Snow had not been raped. The prosecution, ruthlessly bent on convicting him, had suppressed the report...
...suit on file in U.S. District Court in Washington last week, Chapman complained that his memory now has big gaps in it and that his personality has changed for the worse. His capabilities have been reduced, he claims, along with his initiative, and that cuts down his chances of advancement. However, having been acquitted on charges of drunkenness and assault, Chapman still had enough initiative to sue the Washington Terminal...
...student, wrote a letter of protest to the district attorney, presently found himself on trial for having "counseled, aided and abetted" another person in evading draft regulations. Though Gara claimed that he had merely upheld the student's right to follow his conscience, Toledo's District Court Judge Frank Le Blond Kloeb took an unsentimental view of the matter. Judge Kloeb instructed the jury to find Gara guilty if what he had said to the Bluffton student "had a tendency to encourage or cause [him] to continue his refusal to register." Larry Gara drew another jail sentence...
Madame Bovary (M-G-M), when the novel was first published in France in 1856, created a major scandal. Haled into court, Author Gustave Flaubert was charged with defaming French womanhood and corrupting the public morals. The Hollywood version, by framing the story within the court proceedings against Flaubert, has neatly combined fact with fiction to produce a fascinating close-up of provincial manners & morals in igth Century France. By the same device it deftly short-circuits the Johnston office, incorporating its apologia into its action...