Subject: Juries--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: The jurors for the trial of Arthur C. Burch gathered at Beverly Glen, where the murder took place. One group is huddled on the right and others are scattered on the left, some of whom appear to be smoking. In the background are cars and small cabins. Reported in "Burch and Jury View Murder Scene in Glen: Prisoner Jokes and Laughs When He is Taken to Death Spot; Bereaved Father Follows," Los Angeles Times, 01 Dec. 1921: II1.
Date:: November 30, 1921
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article "Insanity to be defense in hammer crime case: Clara Phillips today begins real fight to save her life before nine men and three women will decide outcome of hammer case...," Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 1922: II1.
Date:: October 24, 1922
Resource Type:: still image
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

Description:: The jurors for the trial of Arthur C. Burch gathered in between some trees and grass. Arthur C. Burch is seen in the middle with a hat on, looking at the camera. This photograph may have been taken when the jury for the Arthur C. Burch trial were taken to Beverly Glen, Los Angeles to see where the murder took place. Reported in "Burch and Jury View Murder Scene in Glen: Prisoner Jokes and Laughs When He is Taken to Death Spot; Bereaved Father Follows," Los Angeles Times, 01 Dec. 1921: II1.
Date:: November 30, 1921
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Jury members seated in the jury box during the trial of former district attorney Asa Keyes. Keyes was charged with accepting a bribe from the Julian Petroleum Corporation.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Image depicts a panel of 12 judges half sitting and half standing as well as two attorneys who are also standing in a courtroom.
Date:: [circa December 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 35-year-old William Focher was mistakenly shot by police, believed to have held up the Olympic Auditorium.
Date:: July 15, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of jurors from the Hickman-Hunt trial. William Edward Hickman, who was already sentenced to death for the kidnap and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker, was tried jointly with Welby Hunt for the murder of C. Ivy Toms, a Rosehill pharmacist, on Christmas Eve of 1926. Hunt received a life sentence but was later paroled. Hickman also received a life sentence but was executed at San Quentin for the Parker murder, October 19, 1928.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Buron and Marion Fitts thank the jury after a successful trial.
Date:: February 7, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: William Edward Hickman confessed to the kidnap and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker. He was sentenced to death after a 13-day trial and executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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