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...Sheppard was a free man last week. Almost ten years after his conviction for the bludgeon-murder of his wife, the Ohio osteopath was ordered released from prison-by U.S. District Judge Carl A. Weinman on the ground that his constitutional rights had been violated because he had not been given a fair trial. State authorities wasted no time getting a stay order from the Court of Appeals, but technical difficulties with the necessary arrest order kept Sheppard out of prison. He thanked his lawyer, joined some relatives at a motel, and held an impromptu press conference. Calm and smiling...
...Prejudicial Press. According to Judge Weinman, Sheppard has much to be bitter about. In a stinging rebuke to the Cleveland press and Sheppard's trial judge, Weinman's 86-page decision termed the trial a "mockery of justice." The "inflammatory and prejudicial reporting" of all three Cleveland newspapers-the Cleveland Press, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Cleveland News (since purchased by the Press)-continually implied that Sheppard was guilty; one "cheap sob-sister editorial" in the Press, said the judge, "literally screamed" for his conviction. The papers kept running pictures of Trial Judge Edward Blythin...
Blythin showed clearly that he was prejudiced against the defendant, Weinman concluded, and he should have disqualified himself. While the trial was under way, the presiding judge confided to Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, among others, that Sheppard was "guilty as hell." Contrary to settled law, he allowed the Cleveland police to testify that Sheppard had refused to take a lie-detector test, then failed to instruct the jury that they should disregard this testimony in their decision. Finally, even while the jurors were deliberating, they were allowed to phone their friends. No court official knew what was said...
Hazard of Retrial. During a decade of legal maneuvering, Sheppard's lawyers tried a variety of appeals. They brought up claims of new evidence, argued that their client's rights had been violated, said that there had been judicial error. But not until they had exhausted all possible remedies in the state courts were they free to bring a habeas corpus proceeding in a federal court. But even this successful petition leaves the doctor's legal battles far from over...
Rudi was right as rain. His topless bathing suit (designed as "a prediction of things to come") was first modeled in the flesh for buyers early this month, drew S.R.O. crowds and, of course, caused raging controversy. "Now come, boys," wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard, "girls have been dropping the tops of their suits for years." "It has no dignity," snipped Designer Norman Norell, "it's rock bottom." Colleague Oleg Cassini explained that the suit could hardly influence him. "I'm already very conscious," he yawned, "of that part of the anatomy." Through...