Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Valencia, had just spent nine months in the clink. Last week she sat, lithe and beautiful, in the prisoner's dock, her astrakhan coat open wide to reveal the soft drape of a smart beige gown and a length of shapely leg. From time to time as the prosecutor read the indictment, her long, blood-red fingernails fondled a corsage of tea roses at her shoulder as she cast a slow smile at her dapper defender, Major Luis Albarracin. Only flaw in her appearance was the dark line at the roots of her blonde hair. She gets special treatment...
...eight months, as chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nürnberg trials, Robert H. Jackson, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, had listened to Nazi bigwigs trace the rise & fall of Hitlerism. The big lesson of Nürnberg, he told a New York lawyers' meeting last week, was that Hitler doomed himself when he exiled scientists, suppressed information and halted intellectual progress. Why not, asked Jackson, in effect, let the Russians, who are making the same mistake, wither in their own stupidity? Said...
...pass these defendants a poisoned chalice," said U.S. Prosecutor Robert Jackson in 1945 at the start of the first Nürnberg war crimes trials, "is to put it to our own lips as well. We must summon such detachment and intellectual integrity to our task that this trial will commend itself to posterity as fulfilling humanity's aspiration to do justice...
...Ministry building lacked even Nürnberg's dignity. Eleven judges had been picked by U.S. General MacArthur from names submitted by eleven nations; there was bickering throughout the trial. At the final verdict (TIME, Nov. 22), the court's prestige was further muddied by U.S. Prosecutor Joseph Keenan's remark that Mamoru Shigemitsu (for whom he had asked the death sentence) should really have been acquitted. Presiding Justice Sir William Webb of Australia (after condemning seven of the defendants to death) said that he did not believe in capital punishment...
Back in his old job on the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, ex-Prosecutor Jackson could scarcely fail to see that such a trial would not "commend itself to posterity." Last week, in response to an appeal by some of the convicted Japanese, Jackson broke a 4-10-4 deadlock among his fellow justices and voted that the Supreme Court of the U.S. hear argument on whether to review the legality of the Tokyo tribunal. Jackson's opinion argued on both sides of the 440-4 deadlock.'Tor this court now to call up these cases for judicial...