Grand jury member Clifford E. Clinton in the courtroom where he is charged with contempt, Los Angeles, 1937

Title: Grand jury member Clifford E. Clinton in the courtroom where he is charged with contempt, Los Angeles, 1937
Date Created: between November 2 and December 7, 1937
Date: 1937-11-02/1937-12-07
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Grand Jury member Clifford E. Clinton in the courtroom where he is charged with contempt for refusing to reveal the source of his information in a vice and gambling investigation. Three others, including attorney A. Brigham Rose, grand jury member Harry L. Ferguson, and Rose's legal secretary Pauline Huff were also charged. Superior Judge Wilson dropped the charges, calling them legally insufficient. An attempt to renew the citations of contempt was quickly abandoned when Rose, Clifford, Ferguson, and Huff finally took the stand to testify
Caption: Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Clifford E. Clinton
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Clinton, Clifford E.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Clinton, Clifford E., 1900-
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Suppression of evidence--California--Los Angeles
Grand juries
Crime
Legal

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0025gjq1
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