Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reason. Stryker sat down confidently. The defense notified the press that the Hisses would hold a "mass interview" as soon as the verdict was in. Perhaps they had underestimated their opponent...
...Only a Verdict. When the verdict was ready (the jury was out more than 26 hours), Judy entered the courtroom at Archie's side, her face expressionless and pale, the blue circles under her eyes showing the strain of her trial. Smiling nervously, she turned to him: "I don't know whether I can take it or not." Lawyer Archie was brash and noisy as ever. "Don't worry," he explained with fatherly concern. "It's only a verdict...
...hatpins. Intellectuals, Easterners and British writers, many of whom have lived happily in its sunshine for decades, snarl at its lack of culture, its brashness, its frenzied architecture. Aldous Huxley called it the "city of Dreadful Joy [where] conversation is unknown." H. L. Mencken handed down a one-word verdict: "Moronia...
...gave him a sentence of one to two years in prison, which was suspended, and a $500 fine. Ray Cirrotta's father, in court for the hearing, collapsed when he heard the sentence. Young Tom Doxsee, as his lawyer paid the $500, said he was "disappointed" with the verdict, too. He seemed to think it was too severe...
Eisler had been convicted in Washington in 1947 for swearing to false statements on a passport application. He had appealed from this verdict and was awaiting a Supreme Court decision when he jumped his $23,500 bail and boarded the Batory. The U.S., in asking Britain to extradite him, said that Eisler had been convicted of perjury, a crime specifically covered in the Anglo-U.S. Treaty of Extradition. Eisler's British lawyer contended that the treaty did not cover Eisler's conviction because in British law a false oath is not perjury unless it is taken...