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Description:: Jack Kurschke, former Deputy District Attorney, seated in the courtroom during his trial for the double murder of wife, Elaine, and her lover, Orville (Bill) Drankhan.
Date:: 1967
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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 a elbow on the box's ledge while interlacing his fingers. Behind and to the right of him, Judge Blake sits up at the bench and also glances to the right. In the foreground at right, a court reporter sits with her back to the camera.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Alonzo B. Murchison on the witness stand with a judge to his left and spectators in the courtroom. There is a clerk of court in front of him.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “Scenes at Opening of Court Action in Which Former ‘Broadway Angel’ Charges Defamation of Character by Editor,” Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 1935: A1.
Date:: September 7, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Families of the W.P.A. members slain and witnesses crowded in the courtroom to listen to the inquest of Charles Layman, former W.P.A. employee, who shot and killed six workmen at a site near La Brea Avenue and Exposition Boulevard.
Date:: December 19, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Possibly related to the articles, "NEW HARBOR PLAN URGED: Industrial Port Suggested Gen. Beach Testifies in City Damage Suit Advising Development,” Los Angeles Times, 02 July 1935: A3, and “Expert Witness at Trial,” Los Angeles Times, 2 Jul., 1935: A3.
Date:: July 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The newspaper article that this photograph is associated with contains a photograph that is very similar, but is slightly different from this photograph. The caption for the photograph published in the newspaper states, “In a tense moment in a courtroom murder drama, Archie Carter, right, and Attorney Stanley Visel demonstrate from the witness stand how Carter attempted to wrest the gun from the hand of his wife, Gladys, on trial for murder".
Date:: June 10, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Howard L. Barlow sits in the witness stand during the trial of Leo Patrick Kelley, charged for the murder of Myrtle Mellus. He holds a piece of folded paper and a pencil in his hands, going over the findings of Kelley's fingerprints that were on the whiskey bottle, which is placed on the ledge in front of him. Reported in "Police Say Fingerprints Prove Kelly Slayer: Los Angeles Detectives Believe They Have Clinched Killing Of Mrs. Mellus," The Sun, 10 Aug. 1928: 10.
Date:: August 9, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mildred Kalen seat4d in a chair after being cleared of perjury charges.
Date:: September 19, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The picture taken from what appears to be the jury box shows Kelly sitting with crossed legs in the witness stand, looking towards the ceiling. The court stenographer is also in the frame, his face slightly blurred from being caught in motion.
Date:: May 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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