Word: retrials
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...doing so until a Roman Catholic physicist, who detests everything Howard stands for, uncovers new evidence of the pariah's probable innocence and rallies Eliot and a few conscience-nagged colleagues with a cry of "justice for the enemy." As he rounds up the necessary votes for retrial, Eliot encounters the various motives-sly, cynical, stoic, self-serving, selflessly decent-that sway all would-be judges of men. How all-too-human such motives can be is suggested with delightfully doddering comic precision by Edward Atienza as an ancient Senior Fellow who believes that he is being bypassed...
...Because of involved legal technicalities, the fact that Tillman was a known dope addict, and Crump's charge of a forced confession, he has managed to stave off the executioner by carrying his appeal all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, gaining 41 continuances and one retrial (he was convicted again) and evading 14 dates with the chair-one just seven hours away...
...Regrets. Jouhaud was already condemned to death in absentia for his leading role in last April's "generals' putsch" in Algiers. But under French law such a sentence cannot be carried out without retrial. Additionally, last week, Jouhaud faced the tribunal accused of being a leader and member of the S.A.O., a "revolutionary organization aimed at overthrowing the government...
Nevertheless, the Justice Department moved for a retrial, and Scales was convicted again by Judge Bryan in February, 1953. The Supreme Court upheld this conviction by a 5-4 decision last June...
Judge Herlands is expected to give a decision shortly on Soblen's request for a retrial. "The case looks so fishy," Hughes declared, "that even if a new trial is not ordered, Sobin will probably win on appeal...