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...defense would abandon its obvious air of partisanship. Apparently in response to this feeling, shortly before the trial the Reds involved in the defense had retreated rather clumsily behind a committee of intersectional liberals. To do the actual pleading, an Alabama lawyer had been hired. But Samuel Leibowitz of New York City. who had been through the second and third trials, remained as No. 1 counsel for the defense. Similarly, the State's representatives in court were oldtimers too, the judge and prosecutor being the same who had caused Trial No. 3 to be characterized...
...rape charge against the nine young blackamoors was a frame-up, the play doggedly follows the pattern of the news from the alleged attack aboard a freight train through the first trial to the Supreme Court and on to the second trial. In fact a Manhattan lawyer named Samuel Leibowitz desperately defended the Negroes against a death penalty. In the play a Manhattan lawyer named Nathan G. Rubin (Claude Rains) does the same job, emerging in a final courtroom scene as the hero of the piece. As in real life one of the two girl accusers, Lucy Wells (Ruth Gordon...
Defense Counsel Samuel S. Leibowitz painstakingly cross-examined her while Judge Callahan bickered and interrupted. At a dozen points Victoria Price contradicted the story she had told at the two earlier trials. Lawyer Leibowitz read each contradiction into the record. When he sought to establish that she had spent the night with two hoboes in a Chattanooga "jungle" day before the alleged rape, Judge Callahan cut him short to protect "her chastity...
Glaring frequently at Lawyer Leibowitz and intoning his words, Judge Callahan spent nearly two hours explaining to the jury how they could find Patterson guilty. When he had finished Lawyer Leibowitz and Attorney General Thomas Knight, the prosecutor, went up to the bench, whispered hastily in his ear. "Oh yes," said the judge, facing the jury. "I overlooked one thing. If you are not satisfied beyond all reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty as charged, then he ought to be acquitted." Twenty-six hours later came a resounding thump on the brown wooden jury room door. The bailiff...
...with all this in mind that Defense Attorney Samuel S. Leibowitz asks that the place of trial be transferred to Birmingham, a city of more liberal repute. At Decatur his six young negro plaintiffs can neither be condemned nor acquitted. To find them guilty would obviously be a miscarriage of justice; to set them free would be equivalent to turning them over to the good citizens of Decatur and vicinity. The National Guard, composed of men whose ethical principles largely coincide with those of the rustics, is not to be depended upon in a crisis. Judge Lynch...