Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elevation of Major Peyton Gordon, U. S. Attorney who has twice convicted Sinclair-for contempt of the Senate and for jury-tampering in contempt of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia-to the bench of the latter Court, by President Coolidge...
From police stupidity, the report proceeded to flay lax prosecutors, loose bail systems, unreliable juries. It recommended, as a model for other cities, Detroit's Consolidated Criminal Court...
...GENERAL COURT of MASSACHUSETTS...
...Paid The Next Yeare & 200 * When The Worke is Finished & The Next Court...
When the jury went out, the judge, not expecting a quick decision, left the court. Three hours later, he was fetched from a nearby village and driven back to the courtroom. The jury had reached a conclusion. Whether because they believed the stories the witnesses had told on the stand, whether they disliked the idea of convicting the winner of a beauty contest, or whether, and this was the most likely reason, they felt an instinctive reluctance to accept as mundane evidence a secret that had been intended for the ears only of God, they announced that Mrs. Alma Petty...