Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is a double standard of justice in Mississippi, one for Negroes, the other for whites. On the assumption that the evidence clearly pointed to Milam and Bryant as the kidnappers and murderers of Emmett Till, the group sought to focus national and world attention on the small Southern courtroom. The state attorney general had brought the defendants to trial, but this conscientious action does not imply that the two brothers would have ever been convicted. There has never been any precedent for the optimistic belief that a Mississippi jury would give White justice in a Negro murder. Most observers...
...Stranger. In San Francisco, the burglary trial of Edward J. Devlin was interrupted when a police inspector tapped Juror Vernon F. Bartholomew outside the courtroom, arrested him on a bad check charge...
...union, George Browne, of extorting $550,000 from the studios under the threat of union strikes. Willie bragged that the take was $1,000,000. Willie got ten years, but was released in 1944, after he testified against the directorate of the syndicate. Among Willie's courtroom reminiscences...
Deadfall's first blunder is to show all this at the outset, so that the second, or courtroom, half of the evening merely drives in the coffin nails. There is no suspense and-a second serious error-no final twist that might help save the day. Among other blunders, the writing is studiously mediocre...
...this week, the Wisconsin Senator's rasping voice was noticeably silent. This week, McCarthy was back at the old stand, flinging accusations of softness toward Communism at his perennial favorites, Harvard and Nathan Pusey. This time, however, the attacks lacked some of their steam. Joe McCarthy was in a courtroom, not out on the hustings, and the atmosphere seems to have affected his vitriol...