Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attorney for Errol Flynn, Alexander Pantages) had a battery of witnesses waiting to testify that Joan Berry was no one-man girl. Judge J. F. T. O'Connor, onetime (1933-38) U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, shooed away this legal red herring as often as it appeared. The prosecutor, Charles H. Carr, argued: "Even if you put a common prostitute on the stand, it would be immaterial as to how many men she might have had affairs with in the past." The only issue was the technical one of Chaplin's "intent" in paying Joan Berry...
...Profited? When the steam of passion and prejudice ran low, the court called for summations. Declaimed Special Prosecutor Major General Pierre Weiss: "Yes or no, has [Pucheu] favored the Germans? Yes or no, has he served the Allies? ... We must ask ourselves . . . who has profited by his actions? . . . I think you must [answer]: 'The enemy...
Last week's polygamy crackdown was prompted by an appeal by Mormon leaders themselves. The polygamists' prosecutor is a tall young Mormon, U.S. Assistant District Attorney John S. Boyden. Since there is no U.S. law against polygamy (except in territories), Boyden invoked the Mann Act, the Lindbergh kidnapping law (against a group who took a 14-year-old girl polygamist to a "lambing ground"), the prohibition against mailing obscene literature, etc. Basis for the raids was a recent test case in which the Government sent Polygamists John and Lola Zenz to prison for terms of five...
Under a heading LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES SHOULD NOT BE BULLIES, the Times sternly editorialized: "It is no proper function of a legislative committee ... to turn itself into a prosecutor of what may currently be unpopular. . . . When they turn themselves into witch-burning agencies . . . they go far afield...
Expert Hartkorn's story: The charge against Longo was that he had had his registration changed from Republican to Democratic, in the hope of getting a job from Democratic Governor Edison. Expert Hartkorn had been hired by the prosecutor-a Hague stooge-to provide proof. But diligent examination showed that, although the record had been tampered with, such a change had never been made. Expert Hartkorn duly reported these findings to the prosecution. Not unnaturally, he was never called as a witness...