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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 4

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BROOKLYN EAGLE, AUG. 2, 1950 a dangerous weapon fas 1 per milted by the New York State statute). That is the story (not in such detail) Leibowltz told to students at New York University Law School. "I say that Alvin Dooley, un til he shot the Mayor, was decent, law-abiding citizen, who Wise Lawyer Knows When to Duck Cross-Quizzing an Expert Witness in ordinary circumstances was no more capable of cold-blooded murder than any one of you 1906, Mr. Hampton was graduated from Union College as a Bachelor of Science In electrical engineering in 1927.

He joined the New York Telephone Company shortly thereafter and served in various executive capacities In up-State New York cities until May. 1947, when was named assistant vice-president in charge of plant and engineering. 'He became vice, president and general manager on June 1. Mr. Hampton is a director of the Downtown Brooklyn As.

sociation. the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and other or-ganizations. The Brooklyn Sav. ings Bank was incorporated in 1827. the first savings bank in the borough.

It has resources of more than $168,000,000. Hampton Kamed Trustee of Boro Savings Bank New trustee of the. Brooklyn Savings Bank, Pierrepont and Clinton is Willard G. Hampton, vice-president and general manager of the New York Telephone Company for the Long Island area. Gilbert C.

Barrett, president of the bank, announced that Mr. Hampton was elected at a meeting of the board of trustees yesterday. Born in Amsterdam, N. in in this lecture hall, leibowitz said. Another student said.

There insanity during the furor atleran of the witness chair in a brilliant capsule statement on has been so much odium cist rnmg of'many sensational trials, he wasthe whole law of Insanity and ufn these courtroom spec- nis nonie on tiie mot the killing. to be the "cleanup hitter" Bjr QIKXT1X RKYXOLDS Cecxnibl. 130. kf rimi, straw a Oa be When Dr. Cusack stepped down, Leibowiti raised his har.J to the bench and said.

That is our case. Your Honor." i If in its effect on the where the plea Is in- oi a unrnuant. lie said that the! sanity, ana one set or nired leibowitz was scathing in Neary's psychiatric batting or his cross-examination. But men bat for the prosecution and another set for the de he asked Shuffleton what he thought of Dr. Bellinger.

The ur. josepn anumeton, a jury couia find any one of six different verdicts first-degree murder, second degree murder, first-degree manslaughter, sec- fense! What do vou suggest as sistant superintendent at the a remedy: Kings Park. Insane Asylum, stepped up as a rebuttal wit "In these situations," Lei. DE key propa The settlei and Natio: Sov A. Ma loniat Count of get his it, an.

last Toe Malik ists a Th. Chim U. theS muni to rr on No will defea uHi-ut-girr manslaughter, not guilty, and not guilty by reason of insanity. ress. He said that although oowitz replied, "mere is so much room for honest disagree- witness said that Bellinger's reputation was that of an honest, capable psychiatrist.

Shuffleton also approved of Cusack as a fellow physician. They each got $150 to examine Dooley and testify. Do you think that either of them ine jury deliberated 11 hours ment as well as chicanery that Willard G. Hampton to do away with the expert wit and came In with a verdict of first-degree manslaughter. Doo ness altogether is perilous.

The Dooley was intoxicated at the time of the killing he was nonetheless in full control of his faculties. Dr. Shuffleton disputed the defense testimony (Bellinger and Cusack) that Dooley had been in a state of HELP Jtwxfim state of a man mind at a certain time can't be reproduced would commit perjury on this side before the same landscape, and return a day later to see YOURSELF witness stand for $150?" "I -do not," Shuffleton smiled wnat each has on his canvas. You will find two landscapes so Iibowitz knew that Dr. Hoffman was a clever, articulate man who would hardly blunder into a damaging admission and who could hold his own In a battle of wits.

To tangle with a Dr. Hoffman or with any astute expert witness on technical or theoretical issues might be playing with dynamite. The wise trial lawyer always lets well 'enough alone. There is an art in knowing when not to cross-examine. Leibowitz' strategy, therefore, called for serving up "four wide ones." The four questions he threw in the direction of the witness had utterly no relevancy to the subject of psychiatry and in a second or two the witness was waved off the stand.

As far as the jury was concerned, the brilliant Dr. Hoffman might as in court, like a written contract or a revolver, and that gives rise to honest contro ADVtBTlHIMrWT different that it will seem im He stopped smiling when Leibowitz began to probe into how he made his income. It possible that both painters ley was saved from the chair. If the court wished, it could give Dooley a suspended sentence. It could also give Dooley the maximum ten to 20 years.

Public opinion, which had been strongly against Doolev when the trial began, had now switched completely. The re-pollers who had covered the trial gathered in the same courtroom two days after the verdict of the jury to hear the sentence. Most of them thought Dooley would get a suspended Eye Troubles If traM aaallaaaJlr aaralrta. aaa't developed that Dr. Shuffleton had testified in Nassau County were viewing the same scene.

Yet you cannot that either painter betrayed the truth. Which is the more faithful re versy between opposing counsel and, for that matter, among medical men. "My suggestion is that the court appoint a specialist, preferably one attached to a city hospital, to examine the prisoner and to testify at the trial subject to cross-examination by St jjjjijaijjjji jaaaaa, Mcur Maay I 1 r.aiity itm 4Kkly for tit I r.r 1 I aaik AmJ I I Onr 1 r.aiilF will! Calt raar factor. T. aaatka rdln.rr Un4.

Irrium. karala. Iteklai criminal cases. 33 times during the past seven years. Leibowitz inquired if he considered him production of the landscape? A jury of eminent art critics self a "professional testifier.

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i I l' is I I nmmu. immH I -5 tks. ll ry-t-llllH aa.aa.aJ' Shuffleton protested furiously, but Leibowitz handed him a paper listing each case in which he had testified and the either the orosecution or thp might disagree violently as to that. Often really qualified experts disagree. Consider Robert Irwin for a moment.

I was convinced that he was mad bv any medical or legal standard." sentence. No one felt that the defense or both. Such an ex well have not wasted his time'eourt would be very severp substantial fees he received. pert could be considered as a disinterested witness. Kither and erudition.

Judge Johnson, however, sen- Leibowitz shifted now to the ieiDowiiz spent iour anu a tenced Dooley to a term of 10 side, of course, would have the half hours summing up. to 20 years for the manslaueh-' Drivileee of calling its own evidence he had given as to A Pekinese dog, tomorrow, Hon Olfiet MfttnJiurtt Downtown VooHr H7J '141k II. Wiliaaikar Inj If. (t Mh Fmrk Slovt 14 tta St. aar Itk Ava.) Qneint Count Un4n and Fara.ra SI.

Alaaaa Dooley's state of mind on the ghes rolire a clue to a triole In ending, leibowitz said, iter, plus an additional five toVrt witnM a upII ending, leibowitz slaying. "We don't want a compromise 10 years for being armed with! "Place two painters side by RROOKLYN STORE OPEN THURSDAY TIL 9 P.M. Thro If diplo lngn veto Th talke gettii whet Rath sion retut that light In llami soun agaii foldc the theii cott. prop morning of the murder. He drew an admission from the witness that insane patients even in the violent ward at Kings Park Asylum were able to dress themselves, to tell time BROOKLYN STORE OPEN THURSDAY TIL 9 P.M.

A man may as well be dead in the electric clrair as suffer living death in jail. I ask for -a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity." Neary took two and a half and report for work punctually: aaooKiTN OAaofN city aY sHoai other patients there drove cars and acted as clerks behind the hours to sum up. He demanded the electric chair for Dooley, contending that Shuffleton and CAHDiN.crrr if IAY SHOM counter in the.hospital general store. Shuffleton stepped down Hoffman had been right in de vouqi your money diu IT you I 'Doubt your money back if you and Neary must have known claring that this was a murder 7 flon't like Sunnybank extra- don't like Sunnybank's extra- that the doctor hadn't helped for revenge and that the drink his case any. fresh flavor.

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