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...raping a white girl. He was the first Negro so honored in Marion since 1888, one of the few in the whole history of Southern jurisprudence. The trial-attended by 800 spectators who were searched for weapons at the courthouse door-lasted one day. When it ended, it took Juror Claybrook and his confreres only seven minutes to find the defendants guilty...
More like the great Clarence Darrow, unlike such fabulous criminal defenders as the late William Fallen whose jury victories were often n to i disagreements, and who was acquitted of giving a bribe to a juror although the juror, in a separate trial, had been convicted of receiving the bribe from Fallen, Lawyer Liebowitz has won his jury verdicts outright. The records disclose only one accusation of tampering with justice. In 1932 a county judge in Brooklyn dismissed an indictment based on unsupported testimony of a confessed prostitute that Liebowitz had coached her what to testify against the police stool...
...week had been devoted to picking a jury, a process laboriously protracted by the twelve defense attorneys. This battery, which included such well-known Labor lawyers as John F. Finerty of Washington and New York's onetime (1932) Socialist candidate for Governor, Louis Waldman, exhaustively questioned every prospective juror about his Labor views, peremptorily challenged everyone who confessed to the slightest prejudice against unions or their activities. Time & again Prosecutor Dewey leaped up to protest that no union was on trial. At week's end 500 A. F. of L. unionists rallied to a meeting of the city...
...verdict was "guilty." There were 62 specific charges against each of the nine defendants. Defense lawyers demanded that each juror be polled. It took three-quarters of an hour. Each juror declared each defendant guilty of every charge against him. Said Judge to Jurors: "I congratulate you on the service you have rendered the people and the righteousness of your verdict." He smiled in the Sabbath dawn. "And now run along...
...theory projected in most of the eight books, five plays and 80 articles that have been written on the subject since Dickens died in 1870. That verdict was handed down in 1914 after a literary mock trial at which Gilbert Keith Chesterton was judge, George Bernard Shaw a juror. A notable dissident, however, is Stephen Leacock. This humorist and McGill University economist believes that for Drood to be murdered is too obviously unmysterious. According to Dickensian Leacock, Drood managed to escape a murderous assault by Jasper, but the choirmaster, in an opium dream, fancied he was accomplishing the murder nonetheless...