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Show And This Is Counted Good Legal Defense "Criminal trials are Involved with so maDy technicalities nowadays," said Attorney L. G. McCann, who at one time was a noted prosecuting attorney, "that unquestionably a great many criminals escape their Just deserts. Leniency to women witnesses was largely responsible for the opening wedge; and precedent, the bugaboo of all trial lawyers, has done the rest, "What could be more absurd than "the testimony of Mike the Killer, rearrested re-arrested shortly after doing time under un-der the name of Jones? " 'Now, Mr. Jones,' coos the prosecutor, prose-cutor, 'isn't it true that you were released re-leased from the penitentiary only a month ago, after dcing ten years for murder?' "And Mr. Jones, alias Mike the Killer, who has read the newspapers, promptly answers, T don't remember.' " Los Angeles Times. |