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

Description:: Prominenet 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.Paul A. Wright is seated at far left.
Date:: [between January 17-February 18, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Director and choreographer Busby Berkeley lays on a strecher accompanied by his lawyer Jerry Geisler and nurse Marie Ganchom. Busby was on trial for manslaughter after he was involved in a car crash where two women, Ada von Briesen and Peggy Daley, died.
Date:: September 29, 1935
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:: On February 7, 1936, District Attorney Buron Fitts was acquitted of 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. The perjury trial lasted three weeks.
Date:: February 7, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Buron Fitts and his legal team at his perjury trial. From left to right, William E. Simpson, Joe Scott, Fitts, Jerry Giesler.
Date:: January 20, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Buron Fitts Trial Opens on Charge of Perjury," Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan 1936: 2.
Date:: January 15, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Buron Fitts and his legal team. From left to right: Fitts, William Simpson, Joe Scott, Jerry Giesler.
Date:: January 27, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: James A. Talbot, seated at witness stand, with lawyers Forrest Murray and Jerry Giesler, holding book, standing at right, with California flag in background
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Judge Charles D. Ballard presides in his courtroom with district attorney Asa Keyes (left), defense attorney Jerry Geisler (center), and Frank Richards before him.
Date:: [between 1922-1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Fist Fight Threatened, by Fitts at His Trial," Los Angeles Times, 05 Feb 1936: 1.
Date:: February 5, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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