Word: retrial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crimes" trials are "almost over." Castro defended his ordering the retrial and conviction of 45 Batista airmen by saying that "if the accused has the right to appeal, so do the people," i.e., Castro. This brought a few boos and hisses from Harvard law students...
Judge Webster Thayer, who presided over the famous murder trial, was attacked by Schlesinger for having refused a retrial for the men when new evidence appeared. "Thayer's court-room innuendoes," he also claimed, "were the chief factor in persuading the jury to condemn...
...illusion that some basis of fair procedure underlay the war trials vanished last week when Castro ordered the retrial of forty-three airmen accused of bombing civilians during the civil war. Aside from the defense that in military operations bombing civilians is perhaps inevitable, or at least has not been outlawed in recent wars, the fliers had been acquitted on the same charge by a lower court. Castro, exclaiming that they were being tried "not by law, but by the will of the people," ordered a new trial...
...Captain Jesus Sosa Blanco, convicted of "war crimes" in the famed Roman-circus setting in Havana's Sports Palace, was scheduled for retrial this week. Invited guests: the Knights of Columbus, Rotary and Lions Clubs. Judges: the same three-man tribunal that convicted him before...
...Field Deputy Patrick Mooney (conspiracy to defraud the Government). Two later catches, White House Appointments Secretary Matthew Connelly and Assistant Attorney General (in charge of tax prosecution) Theron Lamar Caudle, were convicted of tax fraud conspiracy, last week won an appeal for a hearing on their demand for a retrial...