Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unperturbed, Colonel Kilian went right on fighting back, started a formal attempt to court-martial former Prosecutor Carroll for "maliciously instigating" his trial...
Court-Martial the Prosecutor? The trials were a travesty on justice. Witnesses refused to testify; there were postponements, delays, finally transfer of the trials from London to Germany. At one point a court-martial president quit in disgust. So did Prosecutor Captain Earl J. Carroll...
...took six days for the story to get out -because, the sheriff said, an investigation was being made. But nobody had seen anything, not a thing. The sheriff and the prosecutor didn't know any more than anybody else. Minden dozed complacently...
...same statute provided identical punishment (a year in jail, $1,000 fine) for owning, lending, selling, giving away or showing any newspaper "largely made up of criminal news, police reports, accounts of criminal deeds or pictures or stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or crime." A literal prosecutor, with a sly liking for gamey books, might turn that one against some newspapers...
Joseph Berry Keenan, Chief Prosecutor of the Tokyo Tribunal, thought Pu-yi might give evidence of Jap crimes in Manchuria. The Russians, who have held Henry incommunicado since last August, produced him only on condition that he remain under Soviet control while in Japan. From Atsugi they took Henry to a modest house next to the Russian Embassy in Tokyo, where they would have a chance to help him prepare his evidence...