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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...legal books, and written between two and three million words." In the opinion of celebrated Liability Lawyer Melvin ("King of Torts") Belli, Chessman has become "one of the sharpest and best-trained lawyers I have met." With the help of various lawyers, self-taught Legal Expert Chessman managed to keep his case dragging back and forth through the courts for twelve years after he was sentenced to death. His major appeals have revolved around the disputed, 2,000-page transcript of his 1948 trial. Court Reporter Ernest Perry died of a heart attack when he had finished transcribing only...
...after a painstaking statistical study of comparative homicide rates in various countries over the years, concluded that "there is no clear evidence of any influence of the death penalty on the homicide rates." In retorting to the arguments of law-enforcement authorities that the death penalty is needed to keep criminals from killing policemen, abolitionists point to the University of Pennsylvania Criminologist Thorsten Sellin's massive study of fatal attacks on policemen in some 260 Northern U.S. cities. By Sellin's mathematics, the rate of such attacks was slightly higher in death-penalty states than in abolition states...
...keep in selling trim, Myrick begins each day with a 45-minute workout with 2-lb. dumbbells and Indian clubs, plays tennis three times a week. He gave up smoking cigars in 1924, quit chewing them in 1959, and hardly ever takes a drink until sundown. Then he drinks up to five martinis, often takes wine with the main course and brandy afterward...
...Myrick longed for something else to do, decided to go back to his old sales agency as a consultant. "But," says Myrick, "nobody consults you about insurance. You have to go out and consult them." At present Myrick sees no chance of getting out of the insurance business. "I keep telling them I want to retire," he says brightly, "but then they come to me with a problem, and I give them a simple answer-only yes, no, or maybe-and then they always ask me to stay on a little longer...
King's work day begins with a deep-think session in a hot tub followed by ten hours at a hot desk. Nothing, apparently, can silence his own snare drums of opinion, or keep him from lapsing into double negatives when excited. Sample, on religion: "I think there is no religious revival at all. Fra Angelico kneeled to the Madonna because he was going to paint her, and she was his God. We don't kneel down to nothing any more, not even to a cash register...