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Judges and Judiciary

Oct. 25, 2006

Clothes Could Make or Break the Lawyer, for Jurors at Least

FORUM COLUMN - By Karl Fleming - I was in the Dallas courtroom that 1964 day that Jack Ruby became headed to the gas chamber for killing Lee Harvey Oswald. And this wasn't the day the jury found him guilty.


Forum Column

By Karl Fleming
     
      I was in the Dallas courtroom that 1964 day that Jack Ruby became headed to the gas chamber for killing Lee Harvey Oswald. And this wasn't the day the jury found him guilty. It was the day San Francisco attorney Melvin Belli walked into that old second-floor courtroom to defend him - wearing a vermillion velvet suit.
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