Word: medinae
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...Communist game. Last week, the day after testifying effectively as a person, he became a party automaton again, using all the old harassing tactics-trying to slip irrelevant evidence into the record, denouncing a ticklish question as "Hitlerian distortion," flouting the rules to the point where Judge Harold Medina threatened to lock him up for contempt as he had already locked up four of Davis' fellow defendants...
Answer the Question. McGohey paused at this show of defiance and turned to the court for help. Said Judge Medina: "Answer the question." Loudmouthed Defense Lawyer Harry Sacher stood up and shouted "I advise him of his constitutional right to refuse." Judge Medina stonily intoned "I repeat my direction." Gates was defiant: "I would have to bow my head in shame and I could never raise my head in decent society if I ever became a stool pigeon. Even under the court's direction...
Angrily, the court ordered the answer stricken from the record. The long-sought hour of martyrdom was at hand. The entire defense, counsel and defendants, was on its feet, roaring and waving its arms at the court. Judge Medina hastily ordered the jury from the room. U.S. marshals (some of them rushed down from the Hiss-Chambers trial two floors above) closed in between the defense and Judge Medina, between the defense and the spectators. Said Judge Medina to Gates: "I now adjudge you guilty of a willful and deliberate contempt . . . You are to be remanded until you have purged...
...Judge Medina ordered him remanded to jail for the duration of the trial, then looked around for more trouble...
...mustached, kewpie-like face thrust aggressively forward, Gus Hall (real name Arno Gust Halberg), chairman of the Ohio Communist Party, sneered: "It sounds more like a kangaroo court than a court of the United States. I have heard more law and more constitutional law in kangaroo courts." Judge Medina ordered him to jail...