Word: juror
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foster & Kleiser Billboard Advertising Corp. Director Lomax was in a San Francisco court serving as juryman in the $1,800,000 suit of its onetime Board Chairman L. E. W. Pioda against Golden State Milk Products Co. Judge Walter Perry Johnston announced he would grant a recess while Juror Lomax traveled 50 mi. to Willow Glen on an important mission. Several hours later Juror Lomax returned, climbed wearily into the jury box, told interested colleagues that hereafter Willow Glen's schoolchildren could look at an innocuous poster of a youth and maiden in scanty one-piece bathing suits...
There was even a report that Secretary of the Interior Wilbur had radiotelephoned. In Honolulu a Navy boycott against concerns employing Kahahawai jurors was threatening serious economic damage to the business community. One juror had been threatened with "a ride." Governor Judd's nerves were raw with worry. He was friendly with the brown islanders but, after all, he was a white...
Convenient for occupational melodrama, with which the cinema is trying to replace last year's gangster cycle, was the career of Lawyer William J. Fallen. Lawyer Fallen ably defended innumerable criminals, then defended himself when he was accused of bribing a juror. He was noted also as a libertine and toper. He was the hero of a gaudy biography by Gene Fowler, The Great Mouthpiece (TIME, Oct. 26, 1931). First cinema based on the career of Lawyer Fallen two years ago was For the Defense, with William Powell. Elmer Rice's play, Counsellor-at-Law, had elements...
...only was found with the weapon on his person but admitted owning it for a long time, stating that he had taken it from home just "to keep the children from playing with it." This evidence, not properly stressed at the trial, undoubtedly exerted a strong influence on the juror's verdict. Their first request at the opening of their deliberations was to call for the exhibits and hand lenses in order to see for themselves...
...would not handle divorce cases because of his Roman Catholic faith. Outside of that he would defend almost any criminal against almost any charge. He lived more & more wildly, grew less & less careful of legal ethics. Finally Hearst's New York American discovered evidence that Fallon had bribed a juror. In the ensuing trial, Fallon electrified the court by announcing he had in his pocket birth certificates of two illegitimate children of a certain cinemactress whom he linked with Hearst. Said Hearst (according to Fowler) when a worried American editor called him by long distance: "Well, then...