Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 126 days of feverish dawdling, the biggest sedition trial in U.S. history adjourned for a two-week vacation. Prosecutor O. John Rogge, who has sworn to show the jury every one of his 9,000 documents "if it takes forever," admitted sadly: "It's just impossible to estimate the length of this case. All our estimates seem now like fairy tales...
...Mama, Mia.' The prosecutor demanded the death penalty, exclaimed: "Thus I have thrown your heads down before Italian history and perhaps even my own, but it is well, provided that Italy live." Eighteen Councilors, including five in custody, were sentenced to death (one got 30 years). The condemned at first did not take the sentence seriously. Italians do not believe in executions, least of all for political reasons, and Ciano was, after all, Mussolini's son-in-law and former Foreign Minister. But the priests came and the prisoners realized that they were to die. Ciano agreed...
...Young Republican Club, had been spotted as a comer by U.S. District Attorney George Zerdin Medalie. Just 29, Thomas Dewey became Chief Assistant to District Attorney Medalie and the administrative head of the largest prosecuting office in the federal Government, with 60 lawyers under him. Appointed Special Prosecutor, and elected District Attorney for New York County, by 1938 Thomas Dewey had made the name racket-buster synonymous with...
...young Harvard-educated prosecutor who likes to think of himself as the Wild West's Tom Dewey last week could carve four more notches in his briefcase. His victims: Cheyenne, Wyo.'s mayor, chief of police and two cops...
...protested because the court reporter worked for a firm with an allegedly Jewish executive. They applied for a writ of mandamus to have the whole thing dropped. They said there were too many policemen in court for a "relaxed" atmosphere-and FBI agents had been "persecuting" the accused. When Prosecutor 0. John Rogge inadvertently let slip that this was the third indictment for some of the defendants, the whole "prejudiced" jury panel had to be dismissed...