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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:: 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:: A similar photograph of Aimee Semple McPherson on the witness stand is captioned, "Evangelist Quizzed on Film and Marital Affairs Upper picture at the trial of the film contract breach suit shows Superior Judge Yankwich and Aimee Semple McPherson-Hutton. Lower picture was taken at the deposition proceedings--left to right--Dave Hutton, Attorney Benjamin Lewis, Aimee Semple McPherson-Hutton, Attorney Edward A. Adams and Miss Ruth Tuttle, shorthand reporter," Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 1934: A3
Date:: [January 29, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Miss Lee leans forward from her seat in the witness stand. Judge Burnell is fixated on something that he is writing, as is the court stenographer, who is seated at a lamp lit table in front of Miss Lee. Another unidentified man sits in the foreground, his chair facing the witness stand and his back facing the camera.
Date:: May 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Judge Valentine and Judge Sabath sit together behind the bench.
Date:: February 1936
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 falsely testified 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:: January 27, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Clyde Shoemaker approaches jury. Judge Pat Parker in the background.
Date:: January 27, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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:: This photograph may be associated with the article, “POLICE MATRON ACCUSED IN SLAYING OF OFFICER,” Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 1935: A2.
Date:: October 24, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph may be associated with the article, “POLICE MATRON ACCUSED IN SLAYING OF OFFICER,” Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 1935: A2.
Date:: October 24, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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