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Just before Senator Davis was to have taken the witness stand, an alarmed and voluble juror telephoned defense counsel, reported that an alternate juror was "poisoning the rest of the jury" against the Senator. When informed of this call the judge promptly declared a mistrial, cleared the alternate juror after his colleagues denied anything improper in his conduct. The talkative juror, who had been drinking, was held for possible contempt of court and Moose Davis asked to have his trial set over until after election...
...Curtin, his white-haired chief counsel, a day and a half to sum up the defense and move unsuccessfully for a dismissal of the charges. Lawyer Curtin talked till his voice cracked. He was voluble but ungrammatically inarticulate. He harangued the Governor as if he were a low-grade juror. Samples of the Curtin argument...
...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...