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...whose matrimonial misadventures have set him back roughly $1,000,000 so far, sprang a few surprises that set even jaded old Hollywood buzzing. First off, Mickey casually let drop that he had divorced Elaine, by her leave, in Mexico last December. His fiancée-to-be, Barbara Thomason, 22, a sometime starlet, had gone along for the ride. Feeling free as an uncaged lovebird, Rooney married her on the spot. Then Mickey uncorked a real showstopper: Barbara expects a child around September's end. Elaine sidled back into the act to declare: "I won't feel...
...judge to screen the reports as to their relevance and competence before turning them over to the defense for use in crossexamination. The judge-as-screener procedure was what the Jencks defense asked at the trial. Government attorneys were willing to go along. But District Court Judge Robert E. Thomason refused, without giving his reasons...
...appeal to the Supreme Court, the Jencks defense asked a new trial in which, specifically, Judge Thomason would be required to act as screener. It was this specific appeal that the Government argued against. In the legal point and counterpoint, the idea never came up of turning the FBI files over to the defense directly. But this was precisely the idea that the Supreme Court turned into a rule of law. Wrote Justice Brennan, with Chief Justice Warren, Justices Black, Douglas and Frankfurter concurring: "Because only the defense is adequately equipped to determine the effective use [of reports...
Concurrence & Dissent. Justices Burton and Harlan concurred in ordering a new trial for Jencks, but only on the ground that Trial Judge Thomason had erred in his definition of Communist Party membership to the jury. But, wrote Burton, the old judge-as-screener rule "respects the interests of justice by permitting an accused to receive all information necessary to his defense." And the court majority "goes beyond the request of [Jencks] that reports be produced for examination by the trial court and, in effect, seems to hold that the Government waives any privileges it may have with respect to documents...
...shipmate in the 5th Marines of Laurence (What Price Glory?) Stallings and John W. (Fix Bayonets) Thomason...