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...courtroom shivered. Witness Boston's jaw dropped. So did Prosecutor Dewey's. He and Attorney Stryker strode to the bench where sat stern-faced Justice Ferdinand Pecora. Attorney Stryker argued that the prosecutor's remark had nothing to do with the trial at hand, was deliberately prejudicial to his client. Prosecutor Dewey insisted that the question was proper and justified. Justice Pecora, with face sterner than ever, recessed court for the week-end to decide...
With Defense Attorney Stryker, Dixie was so pert and adroit that Justice Ferdinand Pecora warned him repeatedly...
Last week, bluff, ruddy Leader Hines (having complained that New York City was no fair place to try a Tammany man) stood with eight co-defendants before the bar of Justice Ferdinand Pecora. Sturdy little Justice Pecora, who made his own mark investigating Wall Street for the Senate in 1933, had followed the Dewey proceedings with an expert eye. He bristled when defense attorneys thrust on his attention that Defendant Davis, who had agreed to turn State's evidence, had used the jail leaves (arranged by Mr. Dewey's office to permit him to see his doctor...
Ricker), with whom he was arrested in bed last year in Philadelphia. Justice Pecora sharply ordered an end to Davis' visits...
...Pecora investigation of Wall Street in 1933, upon the House of Morgan's "preferred list" of friends for special treatment in the issuance of securities, appeared the names of Pennsylvania's Chief Justice John W. Kephart and Justice William I. Schaffer...