Word: retrials
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...agreed to share the expenses of the weekend. They accused Biff Hoffman of speeding. He denied speeding but admitted that there had been talk of sharing expenses. Nonetheless, the judge ruled that it was a nonsuit. The McCanns appealed. Last week a higher court refused to authorize a retrial. Headlined California newspapers: RIGHT TO SUE DENIED GUESTS...
...State Department which ordered "inquiries" in Moscow, the most that could be done since the man sentenced to be shot was no U. S. citizen. The moment this degree of U. S. interest was evinced. Russia's sensitive Dictatorship ordered a stay of execution and a brisk retrial of Hearstman Mikhailov by the Court of Appeals which altered his sentence from Death to eight years imprisonment...
...Communist Labor Party, she was convicted in 1920 under the State's notorious Criminal Syndicalism Act, sentenced to one to 14 years in San Quentin Prison. For seven years fiery young Lawyer John Francis Neylan, now William Randolph Hearst's most trusted adviser, fought for a retrial, finally took her case on appeal up to the U. S. Supreme Court. The appeal was rejected in a decision which established the constitutionality of the Criminal Syndicalism Act. In 1927, after a storm of appeals from famed sympathizers, Governor Clement Calhoun Young gave Anita Whitney a pardon. To the chagrin...
...bill of particulars, accusing Aluminum Co. of nearly every unfair business practice imaginable. Baush asked $3,000,000 in damages, $6,000,000 punitive penalties under the Anti-Trust laws. After a three-month trial, a New Haven jury gave Aluminum the verdict. On appeal Baush won a retrial...
...paid for his equipment. Meantime, Mr. Chandler had started his new plant, a six-story miniature skyscraper topped by an Hispanic tile roof, with the printing plant separated from the main structure by a 6-in. crack. Next the City Council stepped in, offered to save a retrial by a new appraisal which set the figure at a high $1,875,000. That was the signal for Mr. Chandler to do the handsome thing: he offered to accept $225,000 less and salvage some of his equipment. Bribery! yelled the Times's enemies. With the structure...