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The Legal Teams
DIR By: HowBrown1953
Date: October 9, 2022, 10:11 am
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First, The Defense :
Fred House
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Abraham Levy
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Emmanuel Friend
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Re: The Legal Teams
DIR By: HowBrown1953
Date: October 9, 2022, 10:13 am
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The Prosecution
( A sketch or photo of Asst. D.A. Lindsay hasn't been located
for inclusion)
De Lancey Nicoll
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Francis Wellman
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Charles Simms
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Re: The Legal Teams
DIR By: HowBrown1953
Date: October 9, 2022, 10:17 am
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Judge Frederick Smyth
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Re: The Legal Teams
DIR By: HowBrown1953
Date: October 19, 2022, 3:42 pm
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Excerpts from two books written by Asst. D.A. Francis Wellman.
Wellman touches upon the case in these works. PDF's at bottom
of page.
Gentlemen Of The Jury ( 1924 )
Luck & Opportunity ( 1938 )
East River Echo Numbers 57 & 58
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Re: The Legal Teams
DIR By: HowBrown1953
Date: October 21, 2022, 8:43 am
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Michael E. Tigar
Professor of the Practice of Law, Duke Law School
Emeritus Professor, Washington College of Law
Chair, ABA Section of Litigation, 1989-90
Francis L. Wellman’s The Art of Cross-Examination has been cited
and quoted
dozens of times in the literature of trial advocacy. It has been
a standard work since the
first edition appeared in 1903. I want to introduce you, first,
to Mr. Wellman, and then to
his remarkable book. Along the way, I hope to convince you to
read the book carefully.
I will also suggest to you how you should read it, because if
you skip past his references
to events current in his time but distant from our own, you will
miss a great deal of the
fun and wisdom in this book. I also tell you candidly that
Wellman’s writing reflects
social attitudes very much of his time and social position, and
I wish to prepare you to
encounter some examples of this.
Francis L. Wellman was a trial lawyer for all of his
professional life. He was born
in 1854 in Brookline, Massachusetts to a comfortably well off
family. He graduated from
Harvard College. He was valedictorian of his Harvard Law School
class of 1878. When
he got out of law school in 1878, he lectured at Harvard and at
Boston Law School, and
practiced law with Senator Bainbridge Wadleigh. He moved to New
York in 1883 to join
the New York City Corporation Counsel’s office, and began his
trial lawyering career in
earnest. He represented New York City in all manner of civil
litigation for seven years,
and developed a formidable reputation.
Wellman was appointed first assistant district attorney for New
York County in
1891. He tried many high-profile cases. One of his specialties
was forensic evidence His
interest in forensic science led him to develop procedures for
trying poisoning cases and
he was lead prosecutor in two famous cases in which husbands had
poisoned their wives.
He obtained convictions in both cases by skillful use of
toxicological evidence and by
brilliant cross-examination of defense experts.
Wellman’s prosecutorial career was cut short in the midst of
controversy. From
contemporary newspaper reports, it is unclear just why he
publicly resigned from the
district attorney’s office in 1894. He was in the midst of
investigating police corruption,
and was being impeded at every turn by police officials and the
mayor’s office. Then, his
detractors called into question his maintaining a private civil
practice along with his
public job, although this sort of arrangement was quite common
in New York then. A
quick glance at the tumult of New York party politics at that
time leads one to conclude
that Wellman had made some political enemies.
From 1894 on, he had a substantial “barrister’s” practice
More in the PDF at bottom
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Re: The Legal Teams
DIR By: HowBrown1953
Date: October 22, 2022, 4:29 pm
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[i]Mr. Smyth's Court.......[/i]
East River Echo Number 35
PDF at bottom
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Re: The Legal Teams
DIR By: HowBrown1953
Date: December 16, 2022, 2:21 pm
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Strange coincidence of Judge Martine's demise
Randolph Martine was the magistrate who assigned Abe Levy, Manny
Friend, and Fred House to be Ameer Ben Ali's defense team.
New York Tribune
March 31, 1891
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Re: The Legal Teams
DIR By: Kattrup
Date: December 20, 2022, 8:10 am
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--- Quote from: Howard Brown link ---
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> The Prosecution
> ( A sketch or photo of Asst. D.A. Lindsay hasn't been located
for inclusion)
>
>
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I'm looking for a picture of this guy but so far no luck.
I do believe his proper title in 1891 was Deputy Assistant
District Attorney John Douglas Lindsay, born dec. 31, 1865?
Died 1932 in his home at Pine Orchard, Connecticut?
In 1886 he was an indictment clerk, in 1889 Deputy assistant
D.A., in 1894 he became full Assistant D.A.
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Re: The Legal Teams
DIR By: HowBrown1953
Date: December 20, 2022, 1:34 pm
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Nice work, Kattrup !
He's not the only attorney I've been trying to hunt down.
Finding a photo of Ovide Robillard has been frustrating. So
far, nothing.
Thanks again for sharing the information on Lindsay.
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Re: The Legal Teams
DIR By: HowBrown1953
Date: February 19, 2023, 6:23 am
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Wellman's background ( up to 1918 ) and two PDFs about two of
his four wives...an opera singer and a 'psychic' artist.
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