Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last November, what was to have been the third Lamson trial fizzled in a mistrial because two names were unaccountably missing from the jury panel...
...rare was a citizen of Santa Clara County who had not made up his mind about Lamson's guilt or innocence that it took 13 days to select twelve good men & true from a panel of 520 veniremen. But there was to be nothing new at the latest trial except the jury. While the selection of jurors was going on, the familiar chief exhibit, a model of the Lamson bathroom, was kept shrouded from view. As it has done twice before, the prosecution was ready to show that blood from a severed artery could not have spurted naturally...
...Prepared as an aftermath of the de Clifford manslaughter case (TIME, Dec. 16 et seq.) to abolish the right of an accused lord to trial by his peers. Reason: taxpayers object to forking up the $50,000 such trials can cost. Introducing a motion to brand the right of a peer to trial by the House of Lords as "archaic," Bachelor Viscount Sankey, recently Lord Chancellor, last week declared...
...Pageantry has its place, but nobody wants a criminal trial to be a pageant...
Gobbled the Earl of Halsbury in protest : "I thought the de Clifford trial was most impressive, most impressive...