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Actually, for all his old-worldliness, Medina was raised in Brooklyn, was called a "greaser" at public school because his father was Mexican (his mother is a D.A.R. of Dutch descent). He made the water-polo team and Phi Beta Kappa at Princeton, and was earning $100,000 a year as a lawyer before President Truman appointed him to the federal bench...
...three weeks, Justice had leaned over backward, while Medina had heard his orders defied, his rulings disregarded and his court criticized. Finally, Justice became mildly annoyed. Medina said to the Communists' battery of lawyers: "I can hint, I can suggest, I can be pleasant about it, but you go right on ... you just keep...
...defense as an "expert," but he did none of his usual screaming; he was bothered by a cold. No such ailment handicapped pint-sized Lawyer Harry Sacher, who looks like a Dead End Kid. In a bullfrog's voice he insinuated at one point that Judge Medina was prejudicing the trial. Medina said icily: "You and your colleagues have obviously adopted new techniques by which, instead of the defendants being tried, the court and all its members are the ones who must suffer excoriations and accusations of counsel. But I think perhaps with patience there will...
Lawyer Abraham Isserman tried the goad. "When your honor interrupted me to misconstrue-" he began, but that was as far as Lawyer Isserman got. Said Medina in a level voice: "That is an impertinent statement ... If you keep this up ... there will be a day of reckoning. Perhaps this is an effort to wear me out.* That is not the proper conduct of an attorney. It may wind up by breaking me down, though I hope it doesn't. I tell you now-stop it! . . .If you persist you must take the consequences...
Lawyer Louis McCabe arose. Medina turned on him. "Oh," said the judge, "now it's your turn to go after me, is it? ... Some day, somebody will read the record of this case and they'll see just how many times this sort of thing has gone on, and somebody may be brought to judgment...