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...alcoves on the south side of the courtroom were jammed. Reporters who could not find space lined the corridor beyond and scribbled notes as best they could. Court secretaries who normally stick to their typewriters peered through the brass latticework at the cause of all the hubbub: Dr. Sam Sheppard, 42. With the unwitting help of the press, Sheppard had finally managed to have his case heard by the Supreme Court...
...decade ago, the Supreme Court had declined to review Sheppard's life sentence for the murder of his wife. Then, in 1964, he was released from jail by U.S. District Judge Carl Weinman, who did not rule on the doctor's guilt or innocence but ordered a new trial. The press, he said, had kept the defense from getting an unbiased verdict...
Escaping the Media. In a split decision, the Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati reversed Weinman, but Sheppard stayed on bail. He listened intently last week as his attorney, F. Lee Bailey, recalled once more the "circus publicity" of the trial. The reason for such banner headlines as WHY ISN'T SAM SHEPPARD IN JAIL?; QUIT STALLING, BRING HIM IN; Bailey contended, was that Cleveland Press Editor Louis Seltzer (who recently retired) thought that only his paper could prevent a cover-up of the murder. Once the trial began, Bailey argued, Seltzer pressed for a conviction so that...
...effort to prove that court officials as well as newspapers were prejudiced, Bailey told how Judge Blythin had confided to Hearst Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen in a pretrial interview that Sheppard was "guilty as hell.'' Ohio Attorney General William Saxbe contended that Kilgallen's affidavit had never been sworn. Because Kilgallen as well as Judge Blythin have since died, Saxbe maintained that the statement could not be rebutted and was inadmissible. Bailey retorted that an assistant attorney general of Ohio had accompanied him when he talked with Kilgallen, and they agreed that her statement did not have...
...Supreme Court has required evidence that jurors were influenced by prejudicial coverage before it ordered new trials. In the Sheppard case there is no proof that the jurors were actually influenced by the press. But if the court agrees with Sheppard that the unfavorable publicity is proof enough, then the state of Ohio must bring him to trial again within 60 days or let him go free...