- Title: F-6809
- Summary: TRIAL BY JURY: EACH CITIZEN HAS A RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL BUT NOT MANY COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND OUR COMPLEX JUDICIAL SYSTEM. FOLLOWS THE PROCEDURES INVOLVED IN TRYING A SUSPECT BEGINNING WITH 1THE ARREST AND FOLLOWS THROUGH THE ARRAIGNMENT, PRELIMINARY HEARING, PRE-TRIAL PROCEDURES, UP TO AND INCLUDING THE ACTUAL TRIAL AND SENTENCING. CRIME AND CRIMINALS. YOUR RIGHTS AS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. LEGAL SYSTEM
- Description:22:28:25 - SUPREME COURT BUILDING. CAPITOL DOME IN WASHINGTON, DC. CU STATUES ON BUILDING. 22:28:50 - MAN WITH NEWSPAPER, FRONT PAGE ARTICLE ON CRIME IN PENNSYLVANIA. 22:28:58 - MAN WALKS ACROSS STREET, UP STEPS OF THE SUPREME COURT. NEOCLASSICAL MARBLE STRUCTURE. 22:29:40 - FRAUGHT OLD WOMAN ON TELEPHONE. CALLING POLICE WITNESS TO A CRIME FROM HER WINDOW 22:29:47 - POLICE COMMUNICATIONS ROOM. POLICE SWITCHBOARD. 22:29:53 - POLICE CAR AT NIGHT. PATROL CAR. POLICE PICK UP SUSPECT FOR QUESTIONING. FRISKED. PATTED DOWN. ARRESTED. 22:30:25 - SUSPECTS IN POLICE LINEUP. WOMAN IDENTIFIES CRIMINAL. 22:31:04 - CU SUSPECT FINGERPRINTED. MUG-SHOT. SUSPECT PHOTOGRAPHED. 22:31:20 - SUSPECT MAKES PHONE CALL FROM TELEPHONE BOOTH. ALLOWED ONE PHONE CALL. 22:31:34 - PRISONER REMOVES BELT, SHOELACES AND TIE IN PRISON CELL. CU PRISONER BEHIND BARS, CLUTCHING BARS. FRIGHTENED AND ALL ALONE 22:32:08 - SUSPECTS MEETS ATTORNEY IN MAGISTRATES COURT. LAWYER. MINOR COURT. JUDGE. 22:32:36 - WITNESSES POINT TO MAN. IDENTIFYING SUSPECT 22:32:41 - MAGISTRATE HEARS EVIDENCE. SUSPECT RELEASED ON BAIL. CU HUGE LEGAL BOOKS. BAIL BONDSMEN. 22:33:17 - ACCUSED MAN TALKS TO HIS BOSS. 22:33:30 - SUSPECT MEETS WITH LAWYER. 22:33:35 - GRAND JURY SESSION. DA. DISTRICT ATTORNEY. POLICEMAN ON WITNESS STAND. GRAND JURY LISTENS. JURY VOTES BY HAND RAISE. 22:34:38 - BEHIND THE BAR (LAWYERS), SIT THE COURT CLERK, POLICE RECORD CLERK. COURT STENOGRAPHER. 22:34:54 - DISTRICT ATTORNEY SETS UP PAPERS 22:35:00 - COUNCIL FOR THE DEFENSE SITS WITH THE DEFENDANT 22:35:07 - COUNTY DETECTIVE JOINS THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY 22:35:12 - BEGINNING OF TRIAL. JUDGE ENTERS. COURT CRIER SOUND BYTE, "ALL RISE, OYEZ, OYEZ, OYEZ (OYES)..." PHILADELPHIA JUDICIAL SYSTEM. 22:36:00 - COURT PROCEEDINGS. ARRAIGNED. SOUND BYTE, "NOT GUILTY". DEFENDANT STANDS BEFORE THE BAR, COURT CRIER READS THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM. LAWYER WHISPERS IN HIS EAR. REQUESTS A JURY TRIAL 22:36:37 - SELECTION OF THE JURY. FOREMAN. SELECTED JURORS TAKE PLACES IN JURY BOX. DA CHALLENGES JUROR. WOMAN LEAVES JURY BOX. ANOTHER TAKES HER PLACE 22:37:41 - CU JURORS, CIRCA 1950s 22:38:27 - CU SPINNING LARGE DRUM WHEEL. PICKING OUT NAMES. JUROR COMMISSIONERS. CLERK WRITES DOWN NAMES 22:38:47 - CU MAN WALKING, FEET. JURY SERVER KNOCKS ON DOOR. GIVEN SUMMONS FOR JURY DUTY. 22:39:07 - CU WOMAN ON TELEPHONE. 22:39:13 - CU ACCOUNTANT WEARING A VISOR ON THE TELEPHONE. 22:39:23 - CU WOMAN ON THE TELEPHONE. 22:39:28 - SAME WOMAN ON JURY 22:39:32 - DA FINISHES, SITS DOWN. ATTORNEY FOR THE DEFENSE RISES, TALKS 22:39:44 - CU JUDGE MAGISTRATE. STERN LOOKING JUDGE. CRIMINAL COURT. 22:39:54 - BEHIND THE BAR, COURT STENOGRAPHER. CU OLD MAN'S HANDS TYPING. STENOGRAPH. 22:40:00 - CU HAND WRITES NOTE. LEGAL PAD. FLIPS PAGE 22:40:03 - WOMAN IN POLLING PLACE. VOTES. HAND WRITING VOTE. PUTTING BALLOTS IN BALLOT BOX. BLACK MAN VOTES. DEMOCRACY. 22:40:36 - CU STERN JUDGE 22:40:41 - DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S MAJOR WITNESS CALLED TO THE STAND. WITNESS SWORN IN AT WITNESS STAND. SOUND BYTE, "I DO". HAND ON BIBLE. 22:41:15 - DISTRICT ATTORNEY QUESTIONS THE WITNESS 22:41:30 - CU STENOGRAPHER'S HANDS ON MACHINE. STRIKES THE QUESTION FROM THE RECORD. 22:41:38 - DA THANKS THE COURT, TAKES HIS SEAT 22:41:46 - COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENSE QUESTIONS WITNESS 22:41:54 - CU WORRIED DEFENDANT. 22:42:14 - CU COURT STENOGRAPHER TYPING ON STENOGRAPH 22:42:16 - COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENSE CALLS A SURPRISE WITNESS. 22:42:44 - CU STENOGRAPHER'S HANDS TYPING 22:42:46 - CHARACTER WITNESS ON THE STAND 22:42:57 - CU OLD MAN HANDS TYPING 22:43:00 - CU NERVOUS HANDS. FIDGETY. CU NERVOUS MAN ON TRIAL SOUND BYTE, "ENEMIES OF SOCIETY". 22:43:06 - JUDGE NODS HIS HEAD. 22:43:10 - DA BEGINS SUMMATION TO THE JURY FOLLOWED BY THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY. DA RISES AGAIN TO MAKE A FINAL REBUTTAL FOR THE STATE. 22:43:59 - JUDGE SPEAKS TO JURY BEFORE THEY GO TO DELIBERATE. "YOU ARE AN EXAMPLE OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT IN PRACTICE..." IMPORTANT DUTY AS CITIZENS. 22:44:49 - JURY FILE FROM THE COURT TO DELIBERATE THE VERDICT. 22:45:03 - CU WORRIED MAN WITH FURROWED BROW PLAYS TIC-TAC-TOE WITH HIMSELF. SCRIBBLES ALL OVER PAD WAITING FOR JURY TO RETURN WITH VERDICT. MAN VERY WORRIED. BALLS UP PAPER. HEAD IN HANDS 22:45:27 - JURY FILES INTO COURT. CU DEFENDANT WITH FURROWED BROW. SOUND BYTE FROM JURY FOREMAN, "GUILTY". CU CLENCHED FISTS. CU WOMAN SAYS GUILTY 22:46:14 - ATTORNEY FOR THE DEFENSE ASKS THAT SENTENCE BE DEFERRED SO THAT HE CAN FILE FOR AN APPEAL. BAIL SET 22:46:26 - MAN WALKS ON SIDEWALK SMOKING CIGARETTE. 22:46:34 - ATTORNEY APPEALING TO PENNSYLVANIA SUPERIOR COURT. 22:46:44 - STATE SUPERIOR COURT, SEVEN JUDGES. JUDGES CONFER IN DELIBERATING ROOM. MAJORITY RULES. VERDICT SUSTAINED. APPEAL TO THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA. 22:48:19 - NERVOUS MAN LIGHTS A CIGARETTE WITH A MATCH 22:48:27 - CU TYPING ON SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA LETTERHEAD 22:48:43 - NEWSPAPER HEADLINE OF GUILTY VERDICT. 22:48:49 - SUPREME COURT BUILDING. FOUNTAIN OF STATUES. CU MAN WALKS UP STONE STEPS. CU EMBLEM "EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW". RELIEF STATUES IN PEDIMENT. CORINTHIAN COLUMNS. NEOCLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE. CU STATUES OF ATHENIANS DRACO AND SOLAN 22:50:09 - FILM ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1950
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: F-6809