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...Dallas last March. After the jury found Belli's client guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the King of Torts exploded in a torrent of comment on the judge, the jury and the city of Dallas. He charged that Ruby had been convicted by "the biggest kangaroo-court disgrace in the history of American law"; he called the verdict "a victory for bigotry and injustice." Craig complained publicly that Belli "should so flagrantly disregard the code of professional ethics and his oath as an attorney." He also suggested that Belli's membership in the A.B.A. might...
Released on bail, Mrs. Murray decided that enough was enough. "If I go before that kangaroo court, I wouldn't stand a chance," she said. "The police would bring in 250 witnesses-neighbors who hate me." At the Washington airport, she announced that Hawaii would be a good place to carry on her work as head of two nationwide atheist organizations, since "80% of the Hawaiians are Buddhist, and Buddhists are absolute atheists...
Even by going standards in executive suites, the sweeping, 56-ft-long room in Omaha is something special. It has marble floors, Hawaiian wood panels, French stained glass, Japanese carvings, Indian temple bells, a lavatory with walls of kangaroo hide and an abstract painting in the elevator. Leo Daly Jr. uses it to impress potential clients with the versatility of his firm. Leo Daly Co., the midwest's biggest and the nations third largest firm of engineer-architects. "My specialty," says Daly, 46, "is in not specializing...
...vehemence, the anti-Belli criticism could scarcely match the violence of Belli's reaction to the verdict. As TV cameramen clustered around, Belli burst into a ranting tirade. He called the trial "the biggest kangaroo-court disgrace in the history of American law," charged that Judge Brown had made "some 30 errors," denounced Dallas as "a city of shame." He said that the jury, the selection of which had taken a full two weeks, had been "jammed down our throats." He would "stop practicing law," he said, "if we don't reverse this and make the people...
...face was deep red, his head bobbing. "The festering sore that is Dallas is now the most shocking place in the nation! If this venom spreads, then God help us all!" He seemed nearly out of control, and the microphones picked up every inflamed syllable: "This is the biggest kangaroo court disgrace in the history of American...