JUDGE REFUSES TO BE CALLED AS WITNESS
(9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 23. Judge Harold Medina today refused to allow the defence to call him as a witness in the trial of 11 American Communist Party leaders on charges of conspiracy. The defence attorneys yesterday said they intended to call Judge Medina and all other judges in the New York judicial district in an effort to prove that labourers, negroes and members of minority political parties were excluded from the jury panel. Judge Medina said: “I have had nothing to do with the jury system. If I am called as a witness, I am automatically disqualified to preside in the trial. I do not intend to have that happen. I simply will not testify.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22852, 24 January 1949, Page 5
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