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Description:: Jury foreman John P. Buckley and Judge Pat Parker at the Los Angeles County Grandy Jury trial where District Attorney Buron Fitts was indicted on charges of perjury and bribery.
Date:: December 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Jury foreman John P. Buckley at the Los Angeles County Grandy Jury trial where District Attorney Buron Fitts was indicted on charges of perjury and bribery.
Date:: December 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Prominent Los Angeles defense attorney Jerry Giesler photographed addressing the jury, during the "white flame" double homicide trial of aviation executive Paul A. Wright. Wright was charged with the shooting deaths of his wife Evelyn and best friend John Kimmel, whom he claimed to have caught in an "inappropriate" embrace in the Wright home.Giesler led Wright's defense team, and argued that Wright was not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury found Wright guilty of two counts of manslaughter, and subsequently ruled that he had been insane at his sanity trial.Superior court judge Ingall W. Bull Sr. is visible in the background of the photograph.
Date:: [between January 13-February 18, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: “Night-life figure” (read: Madam) Lee Francis and Judge Cecil D. Holland examining an anonymous letter sent to Judge Holland which asked the court to convict Francis. Francis was arrested on a morals offense after she offered two girls to an undercover deputy sheriff over the phone. This was the second letter sent to the Judge that condemned Francis’s actions.
Date:: February 5, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: William G. Bonelli (second from left), State Board of Equalization member, and Merle Templeton (far right), Chief Liquor Control Officer, both charged with involvement in a liquor license bribe scandal in which they allegedly conspired to extort money from liquor retailers under threat of causing them to lose their liquor license. Far left is A. Brigham Rose, attorney for Ed Levine, another alleged member of the pay-off ring, which included at least six members. Second from right is Judge Carlos S. Hardy, who was not the judge for the trial
Date:: between October 24, 1939 and May 29, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: William G. Bonelli (center), member of the State Board of Equalization, who is accused of soliciting and accepting bribes from local liquor retailers, standing between A. Brigham Rose (left) and Judge Carlos S. Hardy (right). A. Brigham Rose is the attorney for Ed Levine, a lobbyist also accused of involvement in the liquor license bribe scandal. It is unclear how Judge Hardy is involved with Bonelli, as he is not the judge for this trial.
Date:: between October 24, 1939 and May 29, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "Former Ring Idol Enacts Death Scene on Witness Stand: DEFENSE CLOSES AS KID REVEALS FAMILY TAINT Ex-Pugilist Enacts His Version of Mrs. Mors's Death Before Jury; Arguments on Monday," Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 1924: A1
Date:: [December 19, 1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: At center, A. B. Murchison sits on the witness stand during the preliminary trial regarding Aimee Semple McPherson's disappearance. He sits facing towards the right and looks at a map unfolded in front of him. Two lawyers stand to the left of the witness box. Behind and to the right of Murchison, Judge Blake sits up at the bench and looks down towards the witness. In the foreground at right, a few lawyers sit at the counsel's table.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: At left, a witness sits on the witness stand during the preliminary trial regarding Aimee Semple McPherson's disappearance. The witness sits facing towards camera and looks down at an open book in front of him. To his left, Judge Blake sits up at the bench and looks down towards the witness. In front of the bench, lawyers sit at the counsel's table. In the foreground, a man stands with his back to camera along the right edge.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: At left, a witness sits on the witness stand during the preliminary trial regarding Aimee Semple McPherson's disappearance. The witness sits facing towards the right and rests her elbow on the box's ledge. To the right of her, Judge Blake sits up at the bench and looks towards the counsel's table. In the foreground at right, a few lawyers sit at the counsel's table.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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