Word: prosecutor
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...century photography. Many of the pictures themselves appear to a McLuhanized eye to be patent fakes, double exposures and paste-ups. In 1869 Mumler, along with his wife and a convert, William Guay, was charged with fraud in New York. Despite a grandiose, sneering summation by the then Public Prosecutor, Eldridge T. Gerry ("If the prisoner's innocence is as strong as his supernatural powers are said to be, perhaps, like some of his 'spirits,' he may be able before a jury of his countrymen, to create in their minds a marked impression of that innocence by his own reflected...
Died. Floyd G. Hoard, 40, solicitor general of northeast Georgia's Piedmont Circuit, a gang-busting state prosecutor elected in 1964 who personally led police on innumerable raids against gambling racketeers, auto thieves and bootleggers, all of whom flourish in his rural district; of injuries from at least six sticks of dynamite wired to his car's ignition; in Jefferson...
Latest & Last. She was a successful fashion designer under her maiden name, Elaine Terry. He was an $18,000-a-year chief prosecutor for the Los Angeles district attorney, in charge of the D.A.'s suburban Downey office. Between them, they were earning $40,000 a year. They were a good-looking, high-style couple. Elaine, with her hazel eyes, red hair and trim, 114-lb. figure, was still, at 43, a woman woman-watchers watched. Jack, 6 ft. 1 in. and handsome, with a lively, inquiring mind, was a 45-year-old social lion...
Hermetic Alibi. An all-points bulletin snared the prosecutor less than an hour later in Victorville, 100 miles east of Naples, in a car headed home. He explained that he had driven his son's Volkswagen 300 miles to Las Vegas the night of the murders. At the time of the killings, Kirschke said, he had been en route to Las Vegas to address a Rotary convention. Witnesses backed his story. The only odd aspect to the case was that his own Karmann-Ghia had been found in running condition at the Los Angeles airport. That, said Kirschke, only...
...American system of criminal justice." The police released him, after the interrogation, but the investigation went on. Last week, after 31 days of testimony from 36 witnesses, California Assistant Attorney General Al Harris persuaded a grand jury that he had punctured Jack Kirschke's hermetic alibi. The erstwhile prosecutor was indicted on two counts of murder, arraigned, and given until June 23 to formulate his plea...