Word: shepparding
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...Sheppard...
What of the contention that no convictions will stand because no fair jury can be empaneled? The obvious precedent is the case of Dr. Sam Sheppard, who was convicted in 1954 of murdering his wife, only to be set free twelve years later by the U.S. Supreme Court because of the "carnival atmosphere" created by the press. Justice Tom Clark nonetheless put the legal blame on the judge's "failure to protect Sheppard sufficiently from prejudicial publicity." He had not sequestered the jurors nor "proscribed extrajudicial statements by any lawyer, party, witness or court official." The defendant was convicted...
...defendants have, after all, been managed before. One constitutional law expert remembers, not without irony, that the perjury conviction of Alger Hiss survived despite claims that earlier congressional hearings had prejudiced the case. (Congressman Richard Nixon, of course, felt that the hearings were both necessary and nonprejudicial.) Since Sam Sheppard, defendants as celebrated as Jimmy Hoffa or Jack Ruby, whose murder of Lee Harvey Oswald was committed on television, have been convicted without any appeals court finding that the trial was unfair...
...Sheppard...
...culture actually possessed Faust's characters like real demons. In Foreign Devils, however, the Boxers, Benny Goodman, the basketball fixes of 1951, etc. have sunk to the level of mere nostalgia. One of America's chief natural resources, no doubt, but grossly overexploited at the moment. *R.Z. Sheppard...