Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Never. Despite all that had been done, Russia, Britain, France and the U.S. had yet to agree on a common procedure. This week a U.S. source in London said that Prosecutor Robert Houghwout Jackson had toughened up, warned the others that the U.S. would start the trials alone unless agreement came soon. Major point of disagreement: Jackson's insistence that wars of aggression be recognized, per se, as international crimes...
Before him ranged the red-robed High Court of Justice, a three-man tribunal headed by stern Pierre Mongibeaux, 65, (in 1941 he had sworn loyalty to Pétain's Vichy Government). The public prosecutor was André Mornet, 75 (in World War I he sent Spy Mata Hari to the firing squad). The 24-man jury had been chosen half from the Resistance movement, half from non-collaborationist ex-parliamentarians. Behind the prisoner sat his counsel, his doctors and nurses, the witnesses (there would be about 50), the tightly packed reporters and spectators...
Judges hurriedly consulted. Spectators burst into jeers and catcalls-some aimed at the bench and the prosecution for "political" bias. Said Prosecutor Mornet: "There are too many Germans in this room." The hubbub grew to a tumult of protests and shrieks, scuffling bodies, overturned chairs and tables. In the prisoner's dock the old man sat stoically until he was led away for safety. At Tommy-gun point, gendarmes restored order...
Famed for his work as prosecutor in the Teapot Dome scandal, genial, wide-mouthed Owen Roberts was a big-time Philadelphia corporation lawyer when Herbert Hoover called him to the high court in 1930. Promptly he found himself the deciding vote between the right and left factions of the pre-Roosevelt tribunal, as often as not sided with the left's dissenters. But as the turbulent 30s went by and seven Roosevelt appointees took their places on the bench, he became the court's chief defender of precedent and legal stability...
...With a Clear Conscience." Able Lawyer Federigo Comandini, who had been ordered to defend Koch, jumped up: "We renounce all witnesses for the defense." Public Prosecutor Granata shouted: "With a clear conscience I ask for the death sentence [for Koch] by shooting in the back as a traitor...