Word: leibowitz
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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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...
Samuel S. Leibowitz, chief counsel for the Scottsboro boys, announces that he is now in possession of seven affidavits deposing testimony given by four hundred residents of Morgan County, to whose court the change of venue will bring the Scottsboro case late this month. The testimony, secured by the simple expedient of camouflaging investigators as brush salesmen, shows forth the Jim Crows with every fang aglitter. For example, one mellow judgment runs: "If them lawyers comes here, it will be a one way trip." Many admitted that they had already made up their minds, but "Would conceal...
...Lawyer Leibowitz brought to public attention an already well-known fact, Judge Lowell, sure of a share of the encomium which has been enthusiastically bestowed upon the denouncer of Alabama justice, has gone out of his way to keep the issue on the front page by releasing a Virginia negro facing extradition. While there is obviously much truth in his description of the farcical Southern trial system, Judge Lowell's faith in "Yankee commonsense" is only aggravating a situation which cannot be ameliorated by such a display of Northern sentiment, judicial or otherwise...