Word: wade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What, reporters asked, had Wade thought of Belli's efforts to prove Ruby innocent by reason of insanity? "They pitched their whole case on insanity rather than asking for mercy or leniency, and so the jury probably subconsciously got the idea it was either insanity or death," said Wade. "It was as weak a case of psychiatric defense as I've seen." Did Wade think Dallas' civic reputation was cleared by the verdict? The prosecutor said: "I don't think Dallas was on trial. I don't think I was on trial...
...offer a neutral source of information to the court. Towler had made electroencephalographic examinations (brainwave readings) of Ruby, told the jury that his graphs showed "paroxysmal discharges" from parts of Ruby's brain-indicating that "the subject is suffering from a seizure disorder." But in crossexamination, District Attorney Wade asked Towler if he meant to imply to the jury that Ruby had been out of his mind when he shot Oswald. Replied Towler: "I have not tried...
That was not, of course, the end of the Ruby case. Henry Wade had three topnotch medical experts of his own waiting to present rebuttal testimony. They were Neurologists Francis Forster of the University of Wisconsin, Roland Mackay of Northwestern Medical School, and Robert S. Schwab of the Harvard Medical School. Each testified that Ruby's electroencephalograph charts proved no markedly serious ailment in the defendant. When Forster was asked if the graphs supported a diagnosis of psychomotor epilepsy, he retorted: "They would...
Actually, as District Attorney Henry Wade explained afterward, the real expert witness in the Ruby trial was not a specialist but a policeman. The prosecution clinched its case by showing premeditated intent: Ruby, so the officer testified, had said: "I hope I killed the son of a bitch! I intended to shoot him three times...
District Attorney Wade and his assistant William Alexander had a few other experts waiting in New York, but never felt it necessary to call them in. Their own counterexperts had performed extremely well. As for the rest, Wade and Alexander merely made their most telling points by demolishing opposition witnesses...