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...same day that the Times saw fit to print, 17 newspapers, magazines, TV and radio networks and professional news organizations filed a joint friend-of-the-court brief on the Nebraska gag order, which is now before the full Supreme Court. The press brief concedes that pretrial publicity can compromise a defendant's rights. But it argues that a judge has other ways to protect those rights; such methods have included ordering jurors not to read or view news accounts of the trial, sequestering the jurors, and delaying or moving the trial if the pretrial atmosphere in a community...
After long pretrial hearings, an eight-month trial involving millions of dollars in legal fees and nearly 20,000 pages of transcripts, followed by 14 months of deliberation, New York Surrogate Millard Midonick handed down a crushing verdict. The executors, he found, had acted with "improvidence and waste verging upon gross negligence." They had sold 100 Rothkos to Marlborough for an "unconscionably low" $1.8 million. They had also allowed Marlborough an inflated commission of 40% to 50% on consignment sales of the other 698 paintings...
...counsel, Squeaky has accepted the need for a trained co-counsel, but she rejected Public Defender E. Richard Walker as a man with whom she had "no rapport." MacBride then assigned her to Virga. The judge has let her speak up at all pretrial hearings, so long as the two co-counsel do not speak up at once. To prepare her case, Squeaky has been virtually exempted from jailhouse routine. She is also entitled to have access to law books. Squeaky's studies have doubtless turned up a further advantage to acting as her own lawyer: she can decline...
...skill and ferocity as a boxer-and he comes on as though the courtroom were a ring. Eyes glinting through his spectacles, muscles bulging beneath his flashy suits, K.O. Hallinan is the antagonist of the team, the one who has seemed the most abrasive figure in the pretrial proceedings...
With a scathing denunciation of "massive adverse pretrial publicity," Federal Judge J. Robert Elliott last September threw out Army Lieut. William Calley's conviction for his part in the 1968 My Lai massacre. Last week 13 judges of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected Elliott's conclusion about news coverage. Otherwise, wrote Judge Robert A. Ainsworth Jr., "the inevitable results would be that truly heinous or notorious acts would go unpunished." Besides, he added, the members of the Calley court-martial panel were scrupulously examined for their ability to be fair and open-minded. Five appeals...