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Law Practice

Jun. 10, 2019

Lessons learned from the ‘Trial of Jack Ruby’

“The Trial of Jacky Ruby,” by John Kaplan and Jon Waltz, dissects the transcripts and the trial record from the infamous Ruby trial in Dallas, which years later provide lawyers, law students and judges with insight into the strategies and tactics as to how this trial went so wrong for the defense.

Robert H. Bunzel

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Lessons learned from the ‘Trial of Jack Ruby’
Melvin Belli

On October 1, 2018, a piece I wrote on lessons for trial lawyers from a 1960s book by the legendary Louis Nizer ("The Jury Returns," concerning John Henry Faulk and his blockbuster libel trial in the McCarthy era) appeared in the Daily Journal, whose editors have asked for a second installment. Fortunately, there is ample material to mine from the library of books on the law left to my firm by Bill Edlund, who passed in late 2016. The wisdom Bill curated is the basis ...

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