Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN-A courtroom scene in which a very lovely lady just escapes the death penalty...
...women, listened to stout, baldheaded, raucous George Remus, attorney, defend stout, baldheaded raucous George Remus, accused of murder. The two Messrs. Remus were physically one-and-the-same man, but Judge Shook was impotent to prevent them from acting as separate entities in his courtroom, where they convinced the jury that still a third stout, baldheaded, raucous George Remus had committed the murder...
...such demonstrations were averted. The Greco-Carillo defense committee enlisted the services of Lawyer Clarence Darrow of Chicago. Last week, in the tawdry Bronx courtroom, Lawyer Darrow, one of the most dangerous lions of the U. S. bar, exercised the expressive seams in his face, hunched his expressively hulking shoulders, intoned his expressive drawl, until he convinced 12 jurors who had no interest in the political passions of "little Italy" that Italian political passions were the motives underlying the prosecution; that the prosecution's case rested solely upon identification of a rear-view of one of the alleged murderers...
...such demonstrations were averted. The Greco-Carillo defense committee enlisted the services of Lawyer Clarence Darrow of Chicago. Last week, in the tawdry Bronx courtroom, Lawyer Darrow, one of the most dangerous lions of the U. S. bar, exercised the expressive seams in his face, hunched his expressively hulking shoulders, intoned his expressive drawl, until he convinced 12 jurors who had no interest in the political passions of "little Italy" that Italian political passions were the motives underlying the prosecution; that the prosecution's case rested solely upon identification of a rear-view of one of the alleged murderers...
Colonel Vladiscu presided, as usual, over the military court, being assisted by two majors and two captains. A heavy cordon of troops was thrown around the War Office, armed sentries challenging all seekers of admission to the courtroom. Only the witnesses, lawyers and newspaper reporters were allowed...