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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Michael Musmanno ungallantly declared that his lady opponent was ignorant. The lady, State Secretary of Internal Affairs Genevieve Blatt, charged that Musmanno was violating professional ethics by running for political office while still on the bench. A third contender, 300-lb. Pittsburgh Politician David Roberts, indignantly complained that everybody else was "mudslinging." In short, it was good old not-so-clean political...
...days before the state committee met, Philadelphia's old-line Democratic organization endorsed Justice Musmanno, 67, a colorful, controversial lawyer who has written eleven books, helped defend Sacco and Vanzetti in their Massachusetts murder trial, was a judge at the Nurnberg war-crimes trials, is so ardent an anti-Communist that he once implored baseball's Cincinnati Reds to change their nickname. With the Philadelphia machine behind him, Musmanno easily wrapped up Dave Lawrence's Pittsburgh fief, won the state committee's endorsement...
...company, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court suggested that it was time to abandon this venerable defense (the term dates back to 1581). "The loose use of the name of the Deity in the realm of the law should not be a matter of our approval," said Justice Michael A. Musmanno. "There is something shocking in attributing any tragedy or holocaust to God. The ways of the Deity so surpass the understanding of man that it is not the province of man to pass judgment upon what may be beyond human comprehension...
...since the war. Made in Austria, it was flung before the German people at the time their sovereignty was restored, as a brutal reminder of the price they paid for political folly, as a hair of the mad dog that bit them. Based on a book by Michael A. Musmanno, a U.S. judge at the Nürnberg trials, the film tells the story of the last ten days in Hitler's headquarters in Berlin, at the end of World War II. Facts are respected wherever facts are known, and the fiction is laid in with a sober sense...
...stood accused of the mass murder of more than a million people-people deemed "racially undesirable" by Adolf Hitler. This week, at Nürnberg's Palace of Justice, Presiding Judge Michael A. Musmanno of Pittsburgh handed down their sentences. For Major General Otto Ohlendorf and Brigadier General Erich Naumann and twelve other 55 (Elite Guard) officers: death by hanging. For Brigadier General Heinz Jost and Lieut. Colonel Gustav Nosske: life imprisonment. For Brigadier Generals Erwin Schulz and Franz Six, and an SS major: 20 years. Two field grade officers were sentenced to ten-year terms and the only...