Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lying to grand juries about their reasons for coming to Apalachin.* Facing them in mid-January: maximum sentences of five years and/or $10,000 fines. In what U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers hailed as a "landmark" verdict, the Government in an ingeniously based prosecution won its biggest courtroom victory against organized crime since the conviction of Al Capone. For without proving that the defendants had assembled for a "crime convention," youthful (36) Special U.S. Prosecutor Milton Wessel convinced the jury of the hoods' "togetherness in crime, partnership in lying...
...TRIAL OF DOCTOR ADAMS, by Sybilla Bedford. A retelling of the headline-famed case of England's Dr. John Bodkin Adams, acquitted of committing murder by drugs, this book shows what a fine novelist (The Legacy) can take back from a courtroom. Author Bedford raises the sensational to the dramatic. Her greatest triumph: sustaining suspense when all the time the reader knows the outcome...
Died. Edgar Sullins Vaught, 86, longtime (1928-56) Federal District Judge in Oklahoma City, who presided over the sensational trial (1933) of the two dozen kidnapers of Oilman Charles Urschel and allowed newsreels in the courtroom; ruled (1934) that price-fixing by the New Deal's National Recovery Administration was unconstitutional, and denounced NRA as a violation of states' rights; as early as 1948 was one of three Federal judges in Oklahoma to order desegregation in state universities; in Oklahoma City...
...enterprising weekly newsmagazine, Der Spiegel, has been publishing a 60,000-word series of articles based on three years of research by its staff. Its contention: Van der Lubbe did it alone after all. Der Spiegel pictures him as a warped idealist of more than ordinary intelligence whose strange courtroom behavior-alternately listless or roaring with laughter-resulted from "many months in solitary confinement, chained to the wall with a bright electric light burning day and night...
...trial had barely begun when Carbo startled the courtroom by throwing in the towel. He admitted that he was the undercover manager for Welterweight Pug Jim Peters in one fight, and that he had been the real power behind the stable ostensibly managed by Hymie ("The Mink") Wallman (Heavyweight Alex Miteff, Featherweight Ike Chestnut). More damning yet was Carbo's admission that he had been the behind-the-scenes matchmaker for the welterweight title elimination fight in March 1958 between Virgil Akins and Isaac Logart...