leopold and loeb trial transcript

• Melvin Meffery Wade, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Arthur Calderon, * Warden of San Quentin; Attorney General of California, Respondents-Appellees., 29 F.3d 1312 (9th Cir. 1994)

... of counsel at the penalty phase of his trial. Finally, we reject Wade's various challenges to h... masterful closing argument in the case of Leopold and Loeb. It is simply ludicrous even to mention D...In the entire less-than-eight-page transcript of the closing argument, Ames offered only one con...

• Federal Circuits

• Preface to the General's Son

Anyone who spends as much time scrolling through micro-filmed issues of moldering newspapers is bound to be struck by the sheer number of murders that have been always a feature of American life. Here, Schechter links literary works to the murder cases that have been followed by newspapers on the US.

... pair of pampered young sociopaths, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, who fatally bludgeoned a single ..."No trial heretofore had been as dramatically staged or as h... for three full months, generated a transcript of 12,000 pages, and cost the defendant's family t...

• Triquarterly
• Nbr. 122, May 2005

• GENTRY V ROE, (9th Cir. 2002)

... in the courtroom, observing him through trial, and hearing his tone of voice, there's no basis f...'s successful closing argument in the Leopold and Loeb case as deficient under Strickland, had h... most of the answers reflected in the transcript, including the events surrounding the stabbing. At...

• Federal Circuits

• John Ruthell Henry, Appellant, vs. State of Florida, Appellee, (2006)

... Henry's first trial for Suzanne's murder occurred in Pasco County shor... the youthful, cold-blooded killers Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold. Imploring the judge to spare ...(See October 17, 2003, Transcript, pages 113-115, attached). After reviewing this po...

• Florida Supreme Court

• GENTRY V ROE, (9th Cir. 2002)

... in the courtroom, observing him through trial, and hearing his tone of voice, there's no basis f...'s successful closing argument in the Leopold and Loeb case as deficient under Strickland, had h... most of the answers reflected in the transcript, including the events surrounding the stabbing. At...

• Federal Circuits

• The Record Keepers

Bienen shares her reflection based on an account in the Chicago Tribune describing the restoration of an extraordinary set of books, a systematic record of homicide cases kept by the Chicago police from 1870-1930. Upon it, she highlights the importance of keeping a record of how people live and their identity--being a fundamental human obligation. As such, contemplation is required in the face of contradiction, human cruelty and injustice, before the joy and sweetness of love, and the ironies of history.

... for word, sentence by sentence, the transcription including periods, commas, dashes, misspellings, i... differently defined variables); outcome at trial, sentence imposed; a number of important and preci... else from that time and place: Haymarket, Leopold and Loeb, McSwiggin. Then the records and commenta...

• Triquarterly
• Nbr. 124, January 2006

• Lionel E. Gentry, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Ernie Roe, Warden; Attorney General of the State of California, Respondents-Appellees., 320 F.3d 891 (9th Cir. 2003)

... in the courtroom, observing him through trial, and hearing his tone of voice, there's no basis f...'s successful closing argument in the Leopold and Loeb case as deficient under Strickland, had h... most of the answers reflected in the transcript, including the events surrounding the stabbing. At...

• Federal Circuits