Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Received a letter from Federal Judge Wilkerson, nominee for the Circuit Court, explaining that he had never bound himself to accept the prosecutor's recommendation of a light sentence for Scarface Al Capone in return for a plea of guilty, but had permitted withdrawal of that plea because the defense insisted on full acceptance of the prosecutor's recommendation or nothing...
...sent notorious Terry Druggan and Frankie Lake to jail. Last summer he capped a long and successful record of imprisoning gangsters when he refused to countenance a "deal" between Scarface Capone himself, his Federal prosecutor and the U. S. Attorney General's office whereby Capone was to swap a plea of guilty to income tax evasion for a light sentence. When the prosecutor came to court with this proposal. Judge Wilkerson indignantly quashed it (TIME, Aug. 10). Brought to trial, "Snorkey" Capone received an eleven-year penitentiary term and a $50,000 fine (TIME. Oct. 26). He still languishes...
...Labor's plea, eloquently voiced for the 21 rail unions and the A. F. of L., came to Senator Borah's committee from Donald Randall Richberg, Chicago attorney. With Judge Wilkerson's 1922 injunction in mind, said he: "He set aside the constitutional guarantees of liberty of contract and free speech. He permitted his court to be used as a strikebreaking agency in behalf of the railway managements. ... In his blind partisanship and antagonism to labor unions. Judge Wilkerson has not followed the law as laid clown by the Supreme Court, but has attempted to write...
Attorney ? No sir, he did not. Capone is a man of unbelievable arrogance. He knew this plea of guilty involved a penitentiary sentence. The first thing that happened, to my utter astonishment, was this. ... On the very afternoon that the pleas of guilty were entered an afternoon newspaper published in headlines not what the District Attorney's recommendation would be, but what the judgment of the court would be and that brought comment from all over the country...
Judge Wilkerson advised the prosecutor to "think that over carefully." Then, said Attorney Johnson, he told Judge Wilkerson that he would recommend that Capone be sentenced to two and one-half years in exchange for a plea of guilty...