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...spends spare time on his 700-acre farm, Bryncoed, 30 miles outside Philadelphia in Chester County. After his experience with agile criminality in the Oil Scandals, Lawyer Roberts announced himself in favor of changes in court practice: 1) Abolition of grand juries; 2) 9-to-3 jury convictions; 3) Misdemeanor trials by a jury of six; 4) Elimination of "reasonable doubt," "presumption of innocence" and of the prohibition against a prosecutor's comment on a defendant's failure to take the witness stand...
...fell upon their tables, plucked at hip flasks and pint bottles, set the place into an uproar. Women shrieked and fainted. One tore the sleeve out of her escort's coat trying to drag him to safety. Arrested were eleven patrons on the charge of liquor possession (a misdemeanor under the Volstead Act), 16 employes charged with providing "set-ups." Through a hooting, jeering Broadway crowd, the 27 men were taken to the police station, later held in $500 or more bail each for trial...
...capital of Finland is Helsingfors) recently the Civic Council decreed the total suppression of "horn nuisance," made it a misdemeanor for motorists to give audible signs of their approach...
...Commissioners be empowered to try minor dry offenses. This suggestion raised the largest objection in Congress where many doubted its constitutionality. Wet Congressmen complained that it would deprive citizens of the right of trial by jury, that petty offenders would have either to plead guilty to a misdemeanor before a U. S. Commissioner, or, if demanding a jury trial, run the risk of a felony conviction under the Jones Law. Attorney General Mitchell called this proposal the Commission's "most important and constructive suggestion . . . for speeding up the work and relieving the Federal judges of burdensome details...
...have complained to city health authorities) to strip naked except for stockings and shoes. To hesitant patients he sometimes declared that he was a graduate physician, although he had no New York State license. Usually he merely conveyed the impression of being an authorized practitioner. Doing that is a misdemeanor in New York. But he was not prosecuted...