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Grand jury member Clifford E. Clinton in the courtroom where he is charged with contempt, Los Angeles, 1937

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Title: Grand jury member Clifford E. Clinton in the courtroom where he is charged with contempt, Los Angeles, 1937
Date Created and/or Issued: between November 2 and December 7, 1937
1937-11-02/1937-12-07
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Grand Jury member Clifford E. Clinton in the courtroom where he is charged with contempt for refusing to reveal the source of his information in a vice and gambling investigation. Three others, including attorney A. Brigham Rose, grand jury member Harry L. Ferguson, and Rose's legal secretary Pauline Huff were also charged. Superior Judge Wilson dropped the charges, calling them legally insufficient. An attempt to renew the citations of contempt was quickly abandoned when Rose, Clifford, Ferguson, and Huff finally took the stand to testify
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Clifford E. Clinton
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Clinton, Clifford E.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz0025gjq1
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Suppression of evidence--California--Los Angeles
Grand juries
Crime
Legal
Clinton, Clifford E., 1900-
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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