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Publicity. Stench in the nostrils of most conscientious U. S. citizens is the confirmed U. S. practice of trying cases in the newspapers and on the radio while they are still sub judice in the courtroom. The 1934-35 trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann carried the practice to almost unbelievable lengths. A.B.A., convening in Los Angeles last year, withheld indignant comment only because the trial was still sub judice. Last week a special Committee of the Criminal Law Section headed by onetime Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Oscar Hallam, felt free to let off steam...
...silent in the committee chamber sat Hauptmann's prosecutor, New Jersey's Attorney General David T. Wilentz. When the Hallam report was released to news hawks, A.B.A.'s retiring President William Lynn Ransom, who with Newton Diehl Baker has been trying to convert the Press amicably, exploded: "Unauthorized, irregular, and improper...
...opinionated views-on-the-news into a microphone, Philadelphia's Harold ("Boake") Carter functions simultaneously as an advertisement for Philco Radio and as a contentious, outspoken editorial voice. Last spring Commentator Carter joined the popular hue & cry against New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman on the Hauptmann case, flayed that official in his broadcasts with a startling lack of restraint. Last week Commentator Carter had his first serious editorial kickback when Governor Hoffman filed in New Jersey Supreme Court a $100,000 libel suit against Carter, Philco Radio & Television Corp.; Philadelphia's Station WCAU, where...
What particularly galled Governor Hoffman were the following broadcast statements in Carter's clipped, British accent: "And so crazier and crazier grows the Hauptmann affair-more and more desperate over the week end became New Jersey's Governor to justify his official blundering and save his tottering political reputation-more and more dizzy stunts are dragged across the old trails to befuddle the public and confuse the main issue. "And so round and round-just as the music goes round and round-so round and round goes the Hauptmann affair-one of the most shocking exhibitions of gubernatorial...
...Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman was threatened with impeachment because he (1 denounced the Constitution of the U. S., 2 supported the Wagner Labor Act, 3 insulted a U. S. district judge, misused WPA funds, S made extraordinary attempts to save the life of Bruno Hauptmann...