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...murder of Lee Harvey Oswald was struck down in October by the Texas Court of Appeals, lay incurably ill of cancer in Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital, to which he had been transferred from the Dallas County jail. The chances seemed remote that he would ever face his retrial, which is scheduled for February in Wichita Falls, Texas...
...With no promise of a fee, he scoured 9,808 pages of briefs and testimony, won a Supreme Court reversal last June on historic grounds of "prejudicial publicity." Then he discarded the 1954 defense theory that Marilyn Sheppard's killer was a stranger. For. the 1966 retrial, he says, "we had to destroy Marilyn...
Although a retrial usually benefits the defense, which then knows the prosecution's case, that advantage may be lost if the defendant takes the stand a second time, especially if he tells a new story. Armed with the first trial record, the prosecutor can trap him into contradictions. Yet if a defendant does not testify, the jury, despite all judicial admonitions, will probably infer guilt. Bailey, however, interviewed the first-trial jurors and was convinced that his client's rather arch answers on the witness stand had hurt him badly. Sheppard did not testify at his second trial...
...states. As one result, the Supreme Court ruled in 1959 that a person can be tried for the same crime in both federal and state courts (Bartkus v. Illinois). As another, Indiana's top court last year rejected the federal standard, upholding Ronald R. Cichos' retrial and conviction for reckless homicide while tossing out his claim of double jeopardy. If Cichos wins his Supreme Court appeal, all American courts will have to use the federal double-jeopardy rule, while federal and state agents will have to decide who will prosecute when both have jurisdiction...
...Deputies. This necessitated a retrial. But Tommie Massie and Honolulu's entire Navy Establishment were indignant. Egged on by his wife's mother, Grace Fortescue, a woman of good connections and considerable gentility, the lieutenant decided to speed up the clock of the law. Two Navy enlisted men, Albert Jones and Edward Lord, were "deputized" as his assistants. One of the defendants, Joe Kahahawai, an amateur boxer, was enticed to Mrs. Fortescue's rented home with a phony police summons and shot to death. Mrs. Fortescue, Massie and one of the Navy ratings were caught hauling Kahahawai...