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Description:: Mary Plettner (left), juror for the Helen Wills Love (right) murder trial, and Vada Sullivan, apparently a court officer (center). Mrs. Plettner was excused from her juror duties when she was found to be drunk on grain alcohol. Judge Smith found Plettner in contempt of court but delayed her sentence until the next day because of her condition.
Date:: March 9, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: John Frank Reavis (seated center), 26-year-old trombone player and candy salesman, in the court anteroom awaiting the jury’s decision to indict him in the murder of 17-year-old B-girl Alice “Jerry” Burns. With him are investigating officers in the case, Detective Lieutenant Miles Ledbetter (left) and Det. Lt. Lloyd Hurst (right), and Captain Edgar Edwards (center). Reavis was indicted and after trial received a second-degree sentence of five years to life in San Quentin. His eye and left hand are bandaged as the result of a fight he had prior to his arrest
Date:: February 28, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Adolfo Carsi holding up his right hand, perhaps taking an oath, judge at the coroner's jury. Carsi had strangled his wife, Florence Carsi, because he suspected her of infidelity. Spectators are seated behind him and attorneys are seated at a table in front of him. A man with a camera on a tripod is on the left.
Date:: January 31, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Adolfo Carsi seated at the witness stand and looking at the judge at the coroner's jury. Two men are seated behind him. Carsi had strangled his wife, Florence Carsi, because he suspected her of infidelity.
Date:: January 31, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Adofo Corsi seated in a chair during the coloner's jury proceedings. Carsi had strangled his wife, Florence Carsi, because he suspected her of infidelity.
Date:: January 31, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Betty Flay Hardaker sits in an office chair and signs papers at the Los Angeles County Jail. Mrs. Hardaker was convicted of murdering her 5 year old daugher, Geraldine Hardaker, in a Montebello park washroom. The jury convicted her of committing the crime while of unsound mind.
Date:: February 23, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Earle E. Kynette, in suit and tie, head bandaged, seated, with six other people partially visible in background
Date:: June 27, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Earle E. Kynette, in suit and tie, head bandaged, seated, with six other people partially visible in background
Date:: June 27, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Fred A. Browne and Earle E. Kynette sitting in chairs in suits and ties, with two other men in foreground, and law books in background. Another man at top left and blurred area at right appear in possible double exposure.
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Fred A. Browne, Earle E. Kynette, and Roy J. Allen, seated, in suits and ties, with attorney Bowman near center, hand to face, among about 8 other people, with bookcase, fan, flag, and door in background
Date:: April 12, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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