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...They Are Immutable." In his closing summary, Defense Attorney Claude Cross was quiet and dogged; he also seemed sincerely convinced of his client's innocence. At the end of nearly five hours, he had punched a few holes in the peripheral testimony, suggested that the State Department documents had been stolen not by Hiss, but by Julian Wadleigh, or "a thief in the Far East division," and talked himself into hoarse exhaustion...
...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...
...areas under his command; had condoned the shooting, gassing and drowning of Jews, gypsies and other minorities, the execution of Russian soldiers, political commissars and civilians, and the deportation of Russians to Germany for slave labor. The defense tried to show that there was little to connect their client personally with any of these deeds. The slaughter of Jews, contended his British and German lawyers, was carried out by an SS unit attached to Manstein's command only for "supply" purposes...
...catcalls from the Communist claque in the spectators' gallery drowned out the rest of Kostov's statement. When the din had subsided, Kostov's lawyer apologized for "defending" him, and called for the maximum penalty. A lawyer, he said, should not try to help a guilty client: "In a Socialist state there is no division of duty between the judge, prosecutor and defense counsel." Next day the court found Kostov guilty of treason and sentenced him to the gallows; his ten codefendants, all of whom had pliantly "confessed" and testified against Kostov, got off with life terms...
...first trial, proceedings went calmly and methodically. Once Hiss's lawyer, Claude B. Cross, suggested: "I don't like to interrupt, but I believe that is irrelevant." Big, austere Judge Goddard stroked his chin. "You are probably right. But it really isn't prejudicial to your client. Let's let it stand...