Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time Cabinet colleague Albert Bacon Fall, now No. 6991 in the New Mexico State Penitentiary. Bribee Fall's plea for executive clemency got no farther than the Department of Justice where Attorney General Mitchell announced that it was automatically denied because it lacked the approval of Trial Judge William Hitz and Prosecutor Atlee Pomerene...
...brains of Tammany Hall, is an elegant dresser, always sports an orchid bontonniere. He usually makes his opponents in court look shabby. Well does Counsel Seabury, who dresses sombrely, almost clerically, know this. When Lawyer Untermyer was defending District Attorney Grain last spring, on the first morning of the trial, Counsel Seabury and his young assistants marched into the courtroom tricked out in morning coats, with sponge-bag trousers and pink carnations, looking like the groomsmen of a wedding party...
...bravado gone, Gangster Diamond faced a maximum sentence of four years, a fine of $11,000. Presiding at his trial was U. S. Judge Richard Joseph Hopkins of Kansas, the militant Dry whose appointment in 1929 caused a political rumpus between Attorney General Mitchell and Senators Capper and Allen of that State (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929). After the verdict an investigator for the Diamond defense was seized in court, held by Judge Hopkins on charges of attempting to tamper prosecution witnesses...
After the trial. O'Shea's lawyer appealed to the British Privy Council for David. First such appeal to London since the formation of the Irish Free State, it was refused...
...trial was drawing to a close spectators tried to guess what the jury of eight women and four men would decide. Public opinion seemed to be that Mrs. Gavin, real daughter or adopted, deserved some share of the Flood fortune. They recalled too that California's late Senator James Duval Phelan, another rich, lusty Irishman, but a wiser one, had provided against just such suits by a clever clause in his will- Suddenly there was a wild wave of excitement. Spectators rose in their chairs and booed angrily when old Judge Buck halted the case in midtrial, ordered...