Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your article, and the appellation "Chaser Michel," conveys the idea that Mr. Michel's work has been only that of a solicitor of cases. This is not correct and it does a gross injustice to a man whose entire work has been that of legal research, briefing and trial work. So far as I have been able to learn, Mr. Michel has never personally solicited a case in his life. While he may be responsible for the conduct of anyone in behalf of his firm, nevertheless to convey the impression that he is a mere solicitor instead...
What brought loudest public condemnation down upon Jean Norris' haughty head was proof that she had altered the steno graphic record of a case which was about to be appealed on the ground of an unfair trial. Mary Disena Labello was up on a prostitution charge. It was getting late in the afternoon. Mary Labello's attorney complained he had been in court since 10 a. m. The official record read as follows...
Next day Director Roger Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union (champion of Evolution in the famed Scopes trial in Dayton, Tenn. in 1925) announced that the Union's Committee on Academic Freedom would urge the school board to recant. He thought the incident was significant: first of its kind in the North...
...finds out about the girl he tracks her to Memphis, but by then her nightmare is too much for her, she is its prisoner. The lawyer thinks he has persuaded her to appear as his star witness. But the prosecution finds her too. When she appears at the trial her perjured testimony condemns the innocent defendant. That night a mob takes the prisoner from the jail, burns him alive. The girl's father tries to make the best of an unspeakable business by taking her abroad, trying to patch up a hopelessly smashed life. The lawyer washes his hands...
Chorus and solo parts have been selected from the following numbers: "Trial by Jury," "Pirate of Penzance," "Sorcerer," "Mikado," "Patience," "Pinafore," "Yeoman of the Guard," "Princess Ida," "Ruddigore," "Iolan the," and "The Gondoliers...