Word: musmanno
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Died. Michael Angelo Musmanno, 71, U.S. lawyer who won worldwide notice in a succession of spectacular causes from the 1920s on; after a stroke; in Pittsburgh. Musmanno was one of the lawyers who defended Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927, the judge who sentenced 14 Nazis to death at one of the Nurnberg trials in 1948, the witness who traveled to Israel to testify against Eichmann...
...yard completion to start the second of the three futile drives, Crimson safety John Tyson was hurt and had to be replaced by Tom Wynne. On the very next play three Big Red players, ends Bill Murphy, Sam DiSalvo, and guard Rich Musmanno, went for Wynne. Halfback Bill Huling was stopped four yards behind the line of scrimmage with the ball, but 20 yards upfield the three "blockers" were grinding Wynne into the dirt when the play had finished. The ensuing penalty forced Robertson to throw long, where Williamson and interceptor Cobb were waiting...
...defendant "could not be made a self-accusing witness by coerced answers," wrote Justice Michael Musmanno for the court, "he should not be made a witness against himself by unspoken, assumed answers. A direct confession unwillingly given is a coerced confession. A tacit admission is still an unwilling performance. The decisions of :he Supreme Court of the United States have, in effect, shattered the tacit-admission rule. Whatever may be left of the rule after the enfilading fire of the Supreme Court is here overruled...
Ironclad. His own Pennsylvania machine began to wheeze. Lawrence's hand-picked gubernatorial candidate, Philadelphia Mayor Richardson Dilworth, was handily beaten by Republican William Scranton in 1962; his choice for the party's 1964 Senate nomination, Judge Michael Musmanno, was defeated in a primary by Genevieve Blatt, who in turn lost to Republican Hugh Scott. And this year, after another savage primary battle, Lawrence's organization candidate lost the Democratic gubernatorial nomination to Millionaire Milton Shapp. One of the last of the ironclads, Lawrence buried his bad feelings and campaigned vigorously for Shapp...
...JUSTICE) MICHAEL A. MUSMANNO...