Word: retrial
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...gathering will be addressed by Aaron Warner, International Labor Defense Attorney for the Karlsruhe prisoners. Their case has been appealed and is scheduled to be brought up for retrial this morning in the Suffolk Superior Court at Pemberton Square...
...Haight, Alcock & Goldstein took the case on a contingent basis-no victory, no fees, no expenses. They spent thousands from their own pockets and borrowed $210,000 from the City of Chicago. The first verdict was against them but on appeal the Supreme Court sent the case back for retrial. Again they lost but won their appeal with a unanimous Supreme Court reversal...
...Michigan first legalized eugenic sterilization in 1913. Currently 26 other States have similar laws. †However, in Oceana County, Mich, a young: man got a $3,250 verdict against three county officers whom he accused of coercing him to submit to sterilization (TIME, July 24). Retrial is pending. *In a joint paper with Frederick Boyce, M. D. and Elizabeth M. McFetridge...
...Scottsboro case limps along toward the retrial granted by Supreme Court decision, conditions seem ideal for an enactment of the bloody drama which so often speeds the hand of Southern justice. For excellent reasons, not a negro can be found in or near the little courthouse at Decatur, Alabama. Noisy groups of farmers, barbers, illiterates of every stripe, stand in the street outside, muttering ominously of "outsiders," "Jew lawyers," and "new fangled city trimmings." Representatives of the metropolitan press are ready to give the world its first ringside seat at a genuine lynching...
...Scottsboro, county seat, ten days later. The ninth, aged 13, was turned over to a juvenile court, as was subsequently one of the condemned, aged 14. Last November the U. S. Supreme Court overruled (7-to-2) the Alabama Supreme Court which had denied the defendants' plea for retrial. A new trial, with venue changed not to urban Birmingham as the defense requested, but "for reasons of economy" to Decatur in neighboring, rural Morgan County, began last week...