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Duck Hunt. Ordinarily, such an industry-wide case would have dragged on interminably. Judge Savage would have none of it. Using a civil-suit procedure, he held pre-trial meetings to settle on the major points at issue. Defense attorneys, for example, disagreed on what percentage of the market their clients held. Judge Savage noted that a percentage point either way would make little difference. "We agreed on 65%," said one defense attorney, "and went on to the next item...
...Trembling & Twitching." Thereupon the case turned into a pre-trial jury hearing to decide whether Podola had actually lost his memory and so was unfit to plead guilty or not guilty of murder. Detective Albert Chambers, 6 ft. and 230 lbs., testified that to arrest Podola, he "charged [the door] with all my strength," and crashed Podola to the floor, falling "full length on top of him." When Podola recovered consciousness, said Chambers, he had ''a peculiar trembling and shaking and twitching" in his whole body...
Miss Garland took umbrage at these allegations that she was of an anti-social and possibly neurotic disposition and asked the Tribune's columnist, Marie Torre, to identify her source. Miss Torre refused in a pre-trial examination and later when called upon to do so by Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan, who thereupon cited her for contempt of court and sentenced her to ten days in jail. On appeal, the case went to the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which recently upheld Judge Ryan's decision. Indications are that the Supreme Court will now be asked...
...Jencks decision was reflected by week's end in two other cases. In a Rome (Ga.) rape trial (which came under federal jurisdiction because the alleged crime took place in a national park), the U.S. turned over to the defense presumably relevant excerpts from witnesses' pre-trial statements to the FBI. But in an Erie, Pa. antitrust action, the Government tried for much the same solution-and was ordered by the trial judge to hand over its complete reports, kit and caboodle. Result: the U.S. canceled the appearance of three FBI agents as witnesses...
...York state alone, where the pre-trial conference has been combined with similar moderate reform methods, the backlog has been reduced by one-third in a single year. Equity has come that much closer to the citizen-statistic...