Word: mulvey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like Borge to share a stage, but he can be marvelously droll in bickering with the competition. Over his squirming body, he permits the silky-tongued Marylyn Mulvey to sing "Caro nome"-between his mischievous interruptions. Several times he tartly forbids her to touch the piano. Sopranos bend pianos, he tells the audience, by leaning against them. At one point he confides that the singular of Portuguese is Portugoose. For the singular Borge there is no known plural. - T.E.K...
...freeing Mrs. Huggins, 23, and Seale, 34, Presiding Judge Harold M. Mulvey added an unprecedented chapter to the Panthers' already crowded legal history. Only the day before, the seven white and five black veniremen had announced their failure to reach a verdict after six days of deliberation. The final vote was 10 to 2 for acquittal...
Prosecutor Arnold Markle quickly asserted that the state wanted a retrial. Mulvey turned him down, ruling: "With the massive publicity attendant upon the trial just completed, I find it impossible to believe that an unbiased jury could be selected without superhuman efforts which this court, the state and these defendants should not be called upon either to make or endure." He went on to explain that the hung jury, and the fact that Mrs. Huggins had been confined "for more than two years" and Seale "for at least that amount of time," had been important factors in his decision...
Judge Harold M. Mulvey's ruling came a day after he declared a mistrial in the case against the two Panthers when the jury of five blacks and seven whites reported it was hopelessly deadlocked...
...ruling, Judge Mulvey said, "I have observed a rather remarkable change in the attitude of these defendants during the time they have been before me, and I don't think it is feigned...