VERDICT!

Author: Musmanno (Michael A.)
Year: 1958
Publisher: Peter Davies
Edition Details: 1st UK Edn./
Book Condition: G++
Price: £8.00
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Hardback. A great lawyer narrates his early experiences from the affair of the lost dog to the world-famous Sacco-Vanzetti case. The author was an American jurist, politician, and naval officer. For nearly two decades from the early 1930s, he served as a judge in courts of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Entering the United States Navy during World War II, he served in the military justice system. After the war in 1946 he served as a governor of an occupied district in Italy. Beginning in 1947, he served as a presiding judge for the Einsatzgruppen Trial in US military court at Nuremberg. Musmanno returned to the United States and in 1951 was elected as a justice to the state Supreme Court in Pennsylvania, where he served from 1952 to his death in 1968. He set a record for the number of dissenting opinions filed. Considered "a complicated figure in Pittsburgh history", he was known for defending Sacco-Vanzetti, as well for anti-Communism and support for civil rights. 350pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Browned and foxed edges, damp-marked covers. G++. Has a bit of a musty odour.

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