Grand jury member Clifford E. Clinton who is charged with contempt for withholding information about his sources in a vice and gambling investigation, Los Angeles, 1937
Date Created and/or Issued
between November 2 and December 7, 1937 1937-11-02/1937-12-07
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Grand Jury member Clifford E. Clinton, who 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/zz0025gjrj
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles People Suppression of evidence--California--Los Angeles Grand juries Legal Clinton, Clifford E., 1900-
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