Word: stryker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four months ago that verdict might have had the immediate political effect of winning Tom Dewey New York's Governorship. Last week its political effect was longterm, for Mr. Dewey a vital safety play rather than a touchdown. For old Jimmy Hines, whose attorney, hard-boiled Lloyd Paul Stryker, burst into tears, it meant a possible prison sentence of 25 years unless he appeals successfully...
...jumped ponderous Defense Attorney Lloyd Stryker, waving his arms at the witness. "Wait!" boomed he. "I ask for a mistrial...
...courtroom shivered. Witness Boston's jaw dropped. So did Prosecutor Dewey's. He and Attorney Stryker strode to the bench where sat stern-faced Justice Ferdinand Pecora. Attorney Stryker argued that the prosecutor's remark had nothing to do with the trial at hand, was deliberately prejudicial to his client. Prosecutor Dewey insisted that the question was proper and justified. Justice Pecora, with face sterner than ever, recessed court for the week-end to decide...
...trial which had filled the press of New York City and the nation with surprises for a month, this was a fittingly strange ending. For grinning Jimmy Hines and alert Attorney Stryker, it was a masterstroke. In a new trial before another jury the hand of the prosecutor will be lying face-up and the opportunities for cross-examination by Attorney Stryker vastly enhanced. For the "Great Prosecutor" whom Republicans had already slated for the gubernatorial nomination at their State convention this month, it was the humiliation of being caught in an ABC legal error...
...your conscience trouble you when you put your hand on the Bible in the Grand Jury room," sneered Attorney Stryker...