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Sixteen solemn U.S. citizens filed into the jury box in a big walnut-paneled and marble courtroom in Manhattan last week, rose in their three-tiered box as Federal Judge Harold Medina made his entrance. The black-robed Court seated himself in his high-backed chair, looked out over the top of his desk and nodded to U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey. The trial of eleven Communist leaders, charged with conniving as Communists to overthrow the Government by violence, had finally got down to business...
...hundred-odd spectators watched. Six lawyers for the defense hunched over their tables, facing the bench. Judge Medina began to rock, holding his hand to his face. McGohey rose to outline the Government's case to the jury of twelve and its four alternate members...
Defense attorneys also had some definitions of their own for what they considered errors committed in Judge Medina's courtroom. As Attorney Richard Gladstein saw it, certain of the judge's remarks did not fit the Court's own definition of fairness, were prejudicial to the case. Gladstein wanted him to declare a mistrial. "I won't do it," said the judge. "If you expect me to sit here like a bump on a log you're making a big mistake...
Attorney Harry Sacher said the judge tried to "negate" defense statements by his gestures. The way Sacher described them: "You scratched your head and pulled your ear." "When I scratch my head I'm just plain scratching my head," laughed Medina. "I have a habit of doing that and I'm not going to change it just because you don't like...
...world's youngest mother is generally conceded to be Lina Medina, of Peru (TIME, May 29, 1939), who gave birth to a 6-lb. boy, by Caesarean section, when she was four years and eight months old. The youngest U.S. mother is a matter of dispute. The American Medical Association, which keeps fairly haphazard, uninvestigated records of such events, has listed the youngest U.S. mother as a ten-year-old Illinois girl who gave birth to a full-term baby...