Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parade, Protest, Sit-In." Southern Negro college students particularly are fed up with the slow, legalistic approach of the N.A.A.C.P. A segregation law is often declared invalid in the courtroom, after patient argument by the N.A.A.C.P., only to remain in force in practice. To fight segregation in their own way, young Negroes have organized themselves into a federation called the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ("Snick'' for short). Snick is led by a Chicagoan, James Forman, 33. It provides the shock troops of the civil rights front, organizes sit-ins, holds demonstrations and boycotts anti-Negro stores...
Violations & Acquittals. Nonetheless, his legend rests on his occasional histrionic flashes. He broke bones in both hands thumping on the counsel table or the jury-box railing. Once, demonstrating a murder scene, he lay flat on the courtroom floor and continued his oration from that position. When he defended Stripper Lili St. Cyr on an indecent-exposure charge, he concealed his own paunchy frame in the allegedly diaphanous towel that had covered her on the night in question, so convulsing the jury that the case was laughed out of court. In his desk drawer he kept Lili's black...
...Angeles, where he drove a horse-drawn lumber wagon. Soon he began studying law at U.S.C. and clerking in the office of Earl Rogers, a flamboyant attorney who was a kind of Edwardian Giesler. Rogers nicknamed him Jerry, and the young attorney got some of his first courtroom experience helping Rogers successfully defend Clarence Darrow against a charge of bribing jurors...
Died. Harold Lee ("Jerry") Giesler, 77, canny counsel for two generations of Hollywood celebrities in distress, whose courtroom histrionics won him fame as "The Magnificent Mouthpiece"; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills (see SHOW BUSINESS...
...that the delay was caused by "simple negligence and carelessness by the police, especially by Lieutenant Francis Barry.' Barry was supposed to notify police witnesses. He told the CRIMSON that their failure to appear on time was "just one of those things." Two police witnesses finally did reach the courtroom a few minutes after the judge had granted the postponement...