Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previous criminal record is not always admissible as evidence of probable guilt...
...Jersey's job is to make an entirely circumstantial case sufficiently powerful to convince twelve Hunterdon County jurymen "beyond a reasonable doubt" of Bruno Hauptmann's guilt. In charge of this difficult task is David T. Wilentz, the State's Attorney General who took over the prosecution of the Hauptmann case as soon as it broke last autumn. Small, dark, shrewd 40-year-old Prosecutor Wilentz is not only a good orator and jury handler but an able politician as well. Coming from Perth Amboy in Middlesex County, however, he will have no great local influence with...
...reader Guy P. Rego is right as to the guilt of the asinine system and the judges thereof, who would prolong a wrong merely because it had started...
...charge to the jury, Federal Judge Wilkerson declared: "Lack of good business judgment cannot be considered a basis for conviction. Simply because a defendant embarked upon a losing business venture is no grounds for supposition of guilt. . . . Erroneous judgment may be as consistent with good intent as with...
...facts alone should be sufficient to make Mr. Insull's position uncomfortable in any court of law. When the additional evidence that Insull took $300,000 of capital stock to put into speculative stocks on the open market is considered, there can hardly appear rcom for doubt about his guilt. Both Kruger's suicide and Stavinsky's mysterious death have prevented the law from making its claim on the great European embezzlers. Legal red-tape and the customary American ennui in dispensing justice should not be allowed to hinder a more satisfactory conclusion to matters on this side...