Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promptly arrested him. Not even allowed to summon his own chauffeur, he was whisked downtown to a Federal judge in an automobile which the marshal had hastily borrowed. One of the prisoner's battalion of lawyers, Robert H. Thayer, suddenly called from a party, arrived in the courtroom in evening clothes, arranged for $10,000 bail. Two hours later the U. S. marshal dropped the prisoner at No. 934 Fifth...
Entering a Boston courtroom 15 minutes before the trial, Attorney David A. Rose volunteered to defend one-armed Philip Copell, pleaded passionately, listened sadly as his client received a sentence of 2½-to 3 years for robbery. Philip Copell lost his arm 20 years ago when he, 12, pulled David Rose, 6, from the path of a streetcar...
...from force of habit. While branching out with a profitable bootlegging business, Frisco Jenny keeps a scrapbook of her son's doings. When this scrapbook reveals that he is running for district attorney of San Francisco at the age of 25, audiences can foresee what will follow: a courtroom scene in which Jenny is denounced by her son (Donald Cook), condemned to be hanged...
...moved to San Francisco 14 years later where he has since made his home. As a young assistant to Francis Joseph Heney, famed prosecutor, he helped drive out San Francisco's ''boodlers" and convicted notorious Abe Ruef of bribery after Heney had been shot in the courtroom. A born crusader, he turned on the Southern Pacific to break its political hold on the State. As a result he and his father were not on speaking terms for over ten years. On the railroad issue he stumped the State in a little red automobile, was elected Governor...
Outside the courtroom Athenian crowds roared: "Long live Greek Justice...