Word: retrials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exhibits A & B. In Pueblo, Colo., Manuel Martinez, convicted a year ago on a paternity charge, sought and got a retrial, was found guilty again when the plaintiff's attorney displayed the baby and its webbed toes, then forced Martinez to remove his shoes and socks, show the jury his webbed toes...
...court because of evidence that had been dug up by the Providence Journal and Bulletin's Reporter John Strohmeyer, who thereby helped touch off the nationwide cleanup in the internal revenue bureau. But the U.S. court of appeals set aside the first conviction and ordered a retrial mainly on the ground that the press furor prevented a fair trial. Reporter Strohmeyer had no intention of letting the case die, kept hammering away. Last week, before the second trial got started, the pressure of the press and of the evidence in the case got to be too much for Grafter...
...Retrial of the six Cambridge youths convicted in the beating and slashing of Richmond Bachelder '50 was postponed for two weeks last Friday morning...
...jury deliberated for 23 hours, then sent word that it was hopelessly deadlocked: one member was standing steadfastly for acquittal. Frank Costello (who peeled off bills for passing panhandlers when he went to lunch) could relax until retrial of the case, some time in the spring...
Pale, plain, 30-year-old Ralph Kastner did not have much use for his father. Socially and politically, father Hermann was an opportunist. After Ralph's mother had divorced him in 1944, father Hermann managed a retrial which declared his wife guilty, hounded her and their daughter out of Dresden. When he married again, Hermann chose blowzy, peroxide-blonde Trude Mirtsching, a stenographer with excellent Soviet connections. A year later, conniving Hermann had worked up from a minor political boss to be Deputy Chairman of the Economic Commission, forerunner of the East German government...