Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Resource Type: still image / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Names: Giesler, Jerry, 1886-1962 / Subject: Legal and People - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the witness stand, being questioned by his attorney, Jerry Giesler. Wright, an airport executive, shot his wife and his best friend while they sat together on a piano bench. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Date:: [circa January 13, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the witness stand, being questioned by his attorney, Jerry Giesler. Wright, an airport executive, shot his wife and his best friend while they sat together on a piano bench. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Date:: [circa January 13, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the witness stand, being questioned by his attorney, Jerry Giesler. Wright, an airport executive, shot his wife and his best friend while they sat together on a piano bench. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Date:: [circa January 13, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Attorney Jerry Giesler, at the trial in which his client Dr. Dazey is accused of murdering his second wife, actress Doris S. Dazey, in 1935. Doris Dazey's death was originally believed to be suicide by monoxide poisoning. However, witnesses claimed that Dr. Dazey had been boasting about committing the "perfect crime" and a night watchman testified to witnessing Dazey carry a woman's body from the house to the garage on the night of the murder. Other factors complicating the trial were the paternity of Doris and George Dazey's child, Doris Dazey's possible mental illness, and false testimonies from some of the witnesses. Dr. Dazey was ultimately acquitted of the crime.
Date:: between December 3, 1939 and March 10, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photo likely related to trials and court appearances following Berkeley’s 1935 traffic accident that resulted in the death of three people.
Date:: [circa December, 1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photo likely related to trials and court appearances following Berkeley’s 1935 traffic accident that resulted in the death of three people. Giesler was Berkeley’s lawyer.
Date:: [December, 1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photo likely related to trials and court appearances following Berkeley’s 1935 traffic accident that resulted in the death of three people. Cohen and Giesler were Berkeley’s lawyers.
Date:: [December, 1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Lawyers Harold Lee "Jerry" Giesler and Arthur Veitch on a courtroom stand with Jack Allen. Jerry Giesler was a criminal defense lawyer and the first president of the Criminal Courts Bar Association. Arthur Veitch was a district attorney.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: District attorney Buron Fitts and his sister Mrs. Berthal Gregory appear with their attorneys Joseph Scott and Jerry Giesler to contend the charges of perjury brought against them by the grand jury. From left to right, standing, Buron Fitts, Joseph Scott, Mrs. Berthal Gregory, and Jerry Giesler.
Date:: [circa November 2, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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