Word: pye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lawyer Hester finally got the judge's drift and moved for a mistrial on the grounds that the stories gave the jury information it should not have had. Judge Pye immediately ordered a mistrial...
...Pye: Have no objection to them...
...Pye: No objection to the accounts...
Dusting off a 66-year-old Georgia Supreme Court opinion ("No newspaper has a right while a case is under investigation to comment upon its merits," etc.), Judge Pye then held both Atlanta papers in contempt for "interfering with the business of the court." Said the judge coldly: "The amount of the fine should take into consideration that the offenses were calculated, designed, deliberate and repeated. This corporation [i.e., the papers] takes the position that all that which it here did was its absolute right and privilege to do. It has no such right, and it must be taught...
...papers refused to learn Judge Pye's lesson, prepared to carry their appeal, if necessary...