Word: court
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a handy man confessed to murdering an eleven-year-old girl last July, most of the city's radio stations decided to defy Rule 904; they broadcast his confession. Convicted of contempt of court, three stations and a commentator were fined from $100 to $500 (TIME, Feb. 7). They appealed the decision, contending that it was a threat to free speech and a free press. Last week, at Annapolis, the Maryland Court of Appeals agreed; it threw out Baltimore's gag rule as "illogical." Declared the court: "We are well aware of the high motives [involved...
...radio stations did the fighting and won the victory. For ten years, the Baltimore papers had spinelessly obeyed Rule 904 of the municipal Supreme Bench, which prohibited newspapers-and radio stations-from reporting a suspect's confession or past criminal record until they were introduced in court. The judges had put the British-style gag on the press in 1939, after a sensational murder case, in the belief that newspaper stories might deprive a defendant of an impartial trial...
Later Dr. Crook discovered that the Services which had rejected his invention were having it manufactured free of royalty. He tried to sue the Government, but he did not get the necessary permission until 1943. When the suit reached the U.S. Court of Claims, the little professor won a unanimous decision...
...Black Robe's ragtag characters shamble through a fictitious police court. Their problems range from strong-arm felonies to a housewives' quarrel over the basement washing machine. The only professional actor in the shifting cast is the judge. None of the others even try to memorize lines. Instead, they are rehearsed over & over in incidents gathered from court stenographers, judges, police reporters, detectives and the files of the Better Business Bureau. Lord encourages them to act out the basic drama in their own words...
What had happened to the investors' $28 million? Court-appointed trustees were still trying to find out. So far they had found few assets-an engine plant at Syracuse which Tucker had bought, a handful of lathes in the Government-owned plant at Chicago where he had said he would make cars, and some 25 hand-built Tucker autos, some with motors lifted from the cars of other manufacturers. There was only about $100,000 cash on hand...