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...World Charm." U.S. justice, in the person of Federal Judge Harold Medina, listened patiently, though patience was tried to the breaking point. Justice had lent its ear while the Reds' lawyers tediously cross-examined 24 jurors, trying to prove that New York federal juries discriminated against Negroes, Jews, the poor. Rocking back & forth in a high-backed chair, Jurist Medina now & again pleaded with the Communists' shouting, ranting lawyers to remember where they were. Justice was also debonair and deft, so that even Party-Liner Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast, writing in the Communist Daily Worker, acknowledged Medina...
Inside, while Federal Judge Harold Medina rocked comfortably in a high-backed chair, the defendants' seven lawyers ranted, sobbed and barked up every legal alley...
...Medina, who looks like Movie Actor Adolphe Menjou, stopped rocking occasionally to advise the lawyers: "Start sawing wood." Deadpan, Judge Medina listened to a tearful outburst on racial discrimination from Counsel George Crockett. The next day when Crockett, a bespectacled Negro, said that he regretted weeping, Medina advised: "It is generally better for counsel to refrain from weeping in the courtroom . . . And I understand you promise not to do it again...
Crockett leaped to his feet. "I do not say I will not do it again." Said Medina: "Well then, if you feel like doing it, you go ahead . . . with moderation...
Blue-Ribbon Juries. But even the cool and collected Medina had not been able to keep proceedings on the track. They were still in the pretrial stage when the Communists engineered a legal collision which confounded confusion. They challenged the whole system of picking "blue-ribbon" juries. If they were right, then both the grand jury, which had handed down the indictment, and the panel from which the trial jury was to be chosen would be without legal authority. Medina settled himself stoically while the defense lawyers talked that...