Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German Schnitzel-bank song about the ransom note and the baby's sleeping garment, and Edward J. Reilly took the defense with small chance of pay because "it's a criminal lawyer's dream of a case." To millions of decent U. S. citizens the Flemington trial seemed more like a nightmare, and fortnight ago, after long study, a committee of 18 leading U. S. editors, publishers and lawyers agreed that it was "the most spectacular and depressing example of improper publicity and professional misconduct ever presented to the people of the United States...
...proceedings and methods of obtaining an observance of them. . . ." The 18 members met twice, communicated often. Groundwork for the final report, considered at the A. B. A. convention at Kansas City this week, was a report which the A. B. A.'s Special Committee on Publicity in Criminal Trials prepared (but never released) as a result of political complications ensuing from the Hauptmann trial. The half-dozen recommendations which formed the nub of this week's report, therefore, while studiously avoiding any direct reference to the doings at Flemington, evoked strong recollections of that amazing case as point...
Recommendation in this week's report to the A. B. A.: "That attendance in the court room during the progress of a criminal trial be limited to the seating capacity of the room...
...Flemington, defense and prosecution rehearsed each night for the benefit of the press. Detailed previews of the trial's every legal move were on every U. S. newspaper front page the next morning before court convened...
...Flemington jurors received $300-a-week vaudeville offers after the trial...