Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Names: Giesler, Jerry, 1886-1962 / Subject: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: From left to right, District Attorney Buron Fitts sits with his attorneys, Jerry Giesler, Joseph Scott, and Jack Gilchrist, during his perjury trial before the grand jury.
Date:: [circa November 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: In January 1936, District Attorney Buron Fitts was charged with perjury regarding a 1931 testimony over the sale of a Claremont orange grove. Mrs. Berthall Gregory, Fitts’ sister, sold the grove to Lucien C. Wheeler. Fitts reportedly falsified the amount of money he received through the sale. He was prosecuted by Clyde C. Shoemaker and defended by Jerry Giesler, Joseph Scott, and William E. Scott with Winthrop O. Gordon as the attorney aid.
Date:: February 7, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Jerry Giesler near the witness stand with two others. Court Reporter and juror visible in photograph.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: From left to right, Roland Swaffield, Buron Fitts, Joseph Scott, Mrs. Berthal Gregory (sometimes spelled "Berthel" in the Los Angeles Times), Jerry Giesler, and unknown, stand in crowded courtroom during Fitts Grand Jury trial for perjury.
Date:: December 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Alexander Pantages (left) talking with his defense attorney, Jerry Giesler (right) during his 1929 rape trial where he was accused of raping 17 year old dancer Eunice Alice Pringle. There is a man slightly visible in the background.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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