Word: trial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When his client went on trial for espionage in Washington last spring, lumpy little Archie Palmer had tried to save her with wild histrionics and indigestible tales of international romance in Manhattan's subways. Archie failed; Judy Coplon was convicted and sentenced to 40 months to ten years in prison (TIME, July 11). Last week, as Judy prepared to go on trial in Manhattan on an additional charge of conspiracy, Archie Palmer was still his corny, arm-waving self, but he had discovered a new angle. Teamed up with a shrewd Manhattan attorney named Abraham Pomerantz, Archie complained that...
...destroyed many of the records. The Government added hastily that the FBI had not gotten much from the wire taps, anyway; its case was based on other evidence. The Government's attorneys, plainly unhappy, wished that the judge would let the whole matter drop and get the trial started...
...until this week to produce sworn affidavits from the 23 FBI agents involved in the case and offered the defense a chance to cross-examine any or all of them if they desired. Unless the U.S. could prove that its indictment was built on other, untainted evidence, the spy trial would be crossed off the calendar...
After four years in British custody without trial, Manstein was finally brought before a British military tribunal in Hamburg last August. Britons raised a ?1,620 fund to help pay for his defense; Winston Churchill contributed...
...floodlights in the Sofia courtroom came up full force, concentrating on the miserable defendant in the dock. The court asked Traicho Kostov, once Bulgaria's No. 2 Communist, if he wished to make a final statement. Earlier in the trial Kostov had refused to play his assigned role, had denied being guilty of espionage and treason against Bulgaria (TIME, Dec. 19). This was his last chance to redeem himself-and he rejected it. "I must say once again," he began, "that I was never a police agent, never an imperialist...