Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court's verdict upheld self-avowed Communist Eugene Frank Robel's right to work as a machinist for Todd Shipyards Corp. An employee of the Seattle shipyard for more than ten years, Robel was indicted in 1962 under the McCarran act when the Defense Department ruled that the firm was a defense industry. A federal district court freed Robel because the indictment failed to accuse him of being an active Communist with the intent to further the party's subversive aims; the Justice Department appealed the case to the high court...
Sparrow's trenchant verdict on the assassination and the countless conspiracy theories that it engendered was rendered in an 18,000-word article in the London Times Literary Supplement. "While the assassination itself has till now remained the focus of attention," he wrote, "future historians are likely to be more interested in its aftermath...
...delivering his verdict Adlow rapped recent United States Supreme Court decisions regarding obscentity. "The test of obscentity," the white-haired Judge said, pacing back and forth behind his bench, "has been obscured by the casuistry of the higher courts...
...another he wrote that to beat the rap, "I'm trying for that hospital." Though defense experts testified that it was not unusual for an insane man to think he was not, the jury took less than two hours to bring in the guilty verdict...
Further back field are two strong fullbacks. Ron McClain and Bill Brock, who haven't really been challenged yet so the verdict isn't in on them...