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	Howland will forgery trial - tScholars.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Howland will forgery trial was a US court case in 1868 to decide Henrietta Howland Robinson's contest of the will of Sylvia Ann Howland.
		Sylvia Ann Howland died in 1865, leaving roughly half her fortune, of some USD 2 million, to various legatees with the residue to be held in trust for the benefit of Robinson, Howland's niece.
		In the event, the court ruled that Robinson's testimony in support of Howland's signature was inadmissible as she was a party to the will.
	www.tscholars.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/Howland_will_forgery_trial (1157 words)

	A Treatise on the Law of Identification: A Separate Branch of the Law of Evidence
		Upon a criminal trial photograph likenesses, taken after the death of the person, when it is material to identify the dead body, may be exhibited to witnesses acquainted with such persons in life, as aids in the identification.
		The court will take judicial notice of the art of photography, the mechanical and chemical processes employed, the scientific principles on which they are based, and their results.
		WILLES, J.—"Evidence of identity will be necessary." A witness present at the marriage was called and proved the identity of the prisoner, and then, in order to prove the identity of the first husband with the person mentioned in the certificate.
	chnm.gmu.edu /aq/photos/texts/92harrisv.htm (4993 words)

	Papers of George Washington
		Forgeries of literary and historical documents go back at least to the eighteenth century, when Thomas Chatterton created a medieval monk named Rowley who wrote verse, William Ireland fabricated Shakespeare plays, and James Macpherson concocted collections of ancient Gaelic poetry until he was unmasked by Samuel Johnson.
		Spring's operating procedures were outlined at his trial for forgery in Philadelphia in 1869: "He would obtain, by some means, a genuine letter and then trace it on a sheet of paper, which he stained with coffee grounds to give it the appearance of age.
		Forgeries and facsimiles produced in the nineteenth and even early twentieth century have not only acquired an attractive patina of age, but also often a convincing provenance, and neither donor nor recipient has any particular reason to doubt.
	gwpapers.virginia.edu /articles/twohig_3.html (3511 words)

	1882 Court News
		Will's proved-- Samuel CRUMP, of the parish of Lugwardine, County of Hereford, England; Jacob V. Martense, of the town of Flatbush; Augustus E. Anton NEWMAN, Mary LORD, Maria K. William NASH, Sarah A. Julia FLANNERY, Alfred DICKINSON, Eliza HASS all of the city of Brooklyn.
		These latter relatives contest the will on the ground that the testator was not of sound mind when he made his will, and also that he was unduly influenced by the widow and adopted son so that they did not receive from Mr.
		The testator was twice married, and the will ignores the children by the first marriage, all the property being bequeathed to his widow for life and to be settled after her death upon her two children.
	www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Court/1882.Court.html (17523 words)

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		And it is apprehended that although the legislature on the creation of inferior tribunals unquestionably possesses the right to distribute the judicial authority among them, it cannot control the constitutional qualities appertaining to such portions of the judicial power as it may vest in any one of those tribunals.
		Thus it may create a court for the trial of suits to which an alien is a party, or it may wholly omit to institute any such court.
		Now the memorable language of this act is, that in trials at common law, the laws of the several states shall govern the courts of the United States.
	www.constitution.org /wr/rawle_29.txt (4767 words)

	Philadelphia estate administration lawyers; PA estate and trust attorneys; Huntingdon Valley estate and trust lawyers; ...
		Howland Hess has one of the largest and best trained staffs of professionals and para-professionals in our entire area for the administration of decedents' estates and trusts.
		We begin with the initial probate of the will and guide the executor or administrator all the way through the federal estate tax closing letter, final clearance from the state, the final accounting and distribution to the heirs, and the filing of all state and local income tax returns.
		Howland Hess lawyers have decades of experience in all forms of litigation involving trusts and estates, including will contests encompassing such issues as forgery, undue influence, testamentary capacity and fraud, at both the trial and appellate levels.
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	Howland will forgery trial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The court ruled that Robinson's testimony in support of Howland's signature was inadmissible as she was a party to the will.
		A suitable prior distribution would be a beta distribution, which is a distribution that sits on the unit interval [0,1] and thus is useful for representing proportions.
		We will set alpha = beta = 1, which corresponds to a uniform distribution, that is, all possible values of the match proportion from 0 to 1 are considered equally likely before we see tha data fron the 42 signatures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Howland_will_forgery_trial (1531 words)

	Volume III Chapter XXIX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But it is right that, in case of conviction, the judge, whose duty it will be to fix the term of his sentence, should know that he is not an old offender, and that until quite recently he has been a man of good character.
		I trust the judge will know the facts and give him such a sentence as he will deem fitting in such a case as this is. Sincerely, R. P.S.- I will add that Abbott was a faithful, brave, and very efficient and valuable Union soldier and officer in the late war.
		The bar and the people will no doubt signify to you in many ways their appreciation of the great and eminent talents and learning which for so many years you have given to the public.
	www.ohiohistory.org /onlinedoc/hayes/chapterxxix.html (18248 words)

	Strange Uses For Photographs
		In such law-suits as the great Tichborne trial, where a man claims to be a person who left the country years ago, and has not since been seen at home, if there are photographs of that person taken before he went, they may be of the greatest use in determining the identity of the claimant.
		He desires to sue the town for damages, but, of course, the highway officers will send and remove the nuisance at once, and, after that, it will be difficult to make the jury to understand whereabouts and how large the obstruction was.
		The Taylor will case, in New York, the Howland will case, in Massachusetts, and the Rosa land-grant case, in the Supreme Court, are notable instances in the discussion of this question.
	chnm.gmu.edu /aq/photos/texts/8wj484.htm (1006 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		You will notice that the inscription does not give a year or the name of the emperor.
		The history of the stone, given in Finegan, is a bit peculiar: As I understand the matter, it first surfaced in the possession of a private collector and archaeology buff who has left us no record of how he got it, but who was the possessor of much other first-rate material of undoubted genuineness.
		My judgement is that if we had the names and affidavits of the archaeologists who claimed to have found it _in situ_, there would be a small but non-zero chance of forgery, and that their anonymity makes the chance a little larger, but still small.
	geneva.rutgers.edu /src/faq/x-outof-nt.txt (2632 words)

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	Converted file smb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		See footnote Even assuming, arguendo, that the trial court erred in admitting this testimony, we note that “[t]he erroneous admission of evidence does not require reversal when evidence of the same probative value is admitted without objection.” Sisk v.
		The trial court’s order that Trammell not become pregnant while on probation was apparently intended to “protect the public by preventing injury to an unborn child,” but it serves no rehabilitative purpose whatsoever.
		As the trial judge stated at the sentencing hearing: “I would never require somebody to have no sexual activity; I don’t think that’s even suggested.” The conceded fact that even the best birth control measures sometimes fail raises the possibility that appellant could conceive despite reasonable precautions to comply with the condition imposed.
	www.in.gov /judiciary/opinions/previous/archive/06180103.smb.html (2056 words)

	The Virtual Pomegranate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The ordeal of iron was also used as a sexual trial for German women in the same period, as well as in witch trials in 13th century England and the Black Forest in the 15th century.
		But these trials were atypical; the very fact of their documentation is a result of the primary defendants' prominence.
		This is what happened in the 1315 trial of the bishop of Châlons; three women were tortured until they testified that he had gotten poison from them to kill his predecessor.
	chass.colostate-pueblo.edu /natrel/pom/old/POM9a3.html (5711 words)

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		Using emotional manipulation, the individual is reduced to a depressed condition where he or she will realize a desperate "need of change" in his or her life (JCA-57).
		Recipients of Dianetic "processing" will tend to invent "memories" (for example, believing that they are reliving birth and conception or "past lives" in extra-terrestrial societies), so causing False Memory Syndrome.
		A lawyer defending a criminal on trial for armed robbery, for instance, is not interested in establishing guilt or innocence; he is looking for a loophole or technicality on which the case can be dismissed and his client set free whether guilty or not.
	www.planetkc.com /sloth/sci/Atack.affdv (9209 words)

	The History Box \|An Extraordinary and Unusual Criminal Episode: 1827-1828 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When a bold scheme of forgery had been concocted between Sutton, Holdgate, and Stevens, one that required the services of an artist in his line, Stevens hunted up Reed and brought him to the Darby and Joan.
		And now it was the 8th of March, the day set for the trial that marked what was apparently the last ray of hope for poor Redmond.
		Forgery, from a life imprisonment penalty, was reduced to a maximum of five years.
	www.thehistorybox.com /ny_city/nycity_crime_episode_article00142.htm (3372 words)

	02 Jul History: This Date
		The goal of the experimental trials with the artificial heart is to double the life span of these patients to 60 days, but every patient is expected to die on the AbioCor.
		As the Lockheed approached Howland Island, Earhart radioed the Itasca and explained that she was low on fuel.
		Carlos Menem will grow up to be a politician and lawyer, converting to Catholicism, and, in 1989, the first Peronist to be elected president of Argentina since Juan Perón in 1973.
	www.safran-arts.com /42day/history/h4jul/h4jul02.html (13304 words)

	Falsified evidence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He attached the fingerprints to evidence cards and later claimed that he had pulled the fingerprints from the scene of the murder.
		The forged evidence was used during trial and John Spencer was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison.
		In the 1990s, the fingerprint, DNA, and explosive units of the FBI Crime Lab had written reports confirming local police department theories without actually performing the work.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Falsified_evidence (351 words)

	William Rawle: A View of the Constitution: Chapter XXIX
		The term, laws of the several states embracing as well their common as their statute laws, there is no difficulty on this subject.
		Legislative expositions of the Constitution, although not binding, are entitled to the greatest respect — and when such laws apply immediately to the action of the judicial power, and are fully adopted and uniformly acted upon by the latter, a joint sanction is thus conferred on the construction thereby given to the Constitution.
		Where, for want of a court of equity, rights of an equitable character are enforced in a state court of law, the United States courts will afford relief in the same manner.
	www.constitution.org /wr/rawle_29.htm (5159 words)

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		Their cases are only going to crumble and will lead to the Federal Courts sanctioning them for misuse and abuse of the Federal Court system.
		The seizure is to impound the offending goods for their eventual destruction should it turn out that after a full trial they are determined to be infringing.
		Lerma will be under the order of the Court that those materials are to only be, they are limited to fair use, and, furthermore, since Mr.
	www.skepticfiles.org /sciento/sci581.htm (3234 words)

	THE CONTENTS.
		Mirfin, the discoverer and informer thereof; false; and proves a notorious forgery.
		Consultation after her trial and condemnation, of putting her to death; which the queen was against.
		The duchess of Somerset, her last will: her jewels: her letter to secretary Cecil, concerning the lord Hertford, her son, in the Tower.
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	Questioned Document Examination (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Letters, checks, driver licenses, contracts, wills, voter registrations, passports, petitions, threatening letters, suicide notes, and lottery tickets are the most common questioned documents, although marks on doors, walls, windows, or boards would also be included by definition.
		A number of famous cases over the years, some involving wrongful conviction -- the Dreyfus affair; Bruno Hauptmann and the Lindbergh Kidnapping; the Hitler Diary profiling controversy; and Clifford Irving's forgery of Howard Hughes signature and Mormon documents -- were showcases for the talents of various experts at QDE.
		The accused may get a new trial, but they are not exculpated or found innocent by most courtroom errors.
	faculty.ncwc.edu /toconnor/425/425lect05.htm (2210 words)

	New England Historic Genealogical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On 25 July 1641 "Samuell Nash of Weymouth in New England shoemaker" made a power of attorney to "Enoch Lunt of Weymouth in NE flsmith" [ Lechford 430], and the question has been raised whether this is the Duxbury man residing briefly in Weymouth [ Weymouth Hist 4:421].
		John Newgate left behind two wills, one made at the time of a trip to England in 1638, but never probated, and a second in 1664 not long before he died.
		In his will, dated 14 October 1672, son-in-law Robert Morgan of Salem mentions the twelve acres of land in Manchester "which my wife's father Norman gave unto her in the great plain" [ EPR 2:355].
	www.newenglandancestors.org /research/database/great_migration/N.asp (5527 words)

	1877 News Brooklyn
		Many like compounds claim to do what the Soap Essence does, yet a trial fails to give satisfactory results of a removal of grease and dirt from clothing; it is more efficacious than borax, while it cost is some 25 per cent.
		The groom is in the wholesale fruit trade in New York, and the bride is the daughter of the late Wm.
		It will then be impossible for an officer to borrow another one's coat or pantaloons to enable the wearer to pass inspection.
	bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Newspaper/BSU/1877.News.html (19798 words)

	Revisionism 105
		Thus, to the chagrin of historians, it will never appear in the National Archives as available "hard facts." Bullitt in France and Biddle in Poland did not commit to paper blunt promises of almost immediate military aid in the event of war but such was the gist of their private conversations.
		The British, like the Bolsheviks, still have secret trials -- a relic from medieval times when an absolute monarch was able to dispose of his enemies on the quiet without any public outcry being possible, since the facts would not be known until it was too late to do anything about it.
		By the time the Ramsay suit came to trial, I had already been languishing in a cell in the almost medieval Wandsworth prison in London, I had gone on a hunger strike and was at that time in the prison infirmary.
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	Governor Theodore T. Geer Pardons and Commutations, 1901
		Recommendation of prosecuting attorney and sentencing judge; youth of prisoner; will be removed form state.
		Nine of trial jurors and numerous citizens recommend pardon; served part of sentence; exemplary prisoner and previous good character; sufficient punishment.
		Recommendation of eight trial jurors, prosecuting attorney and successor in office to the judge who sentenced him, sentencing judge being dead, all on the ground of sufficient punishment.
	arcweb.sos.state.or.us /governors/geer/pardon.html (1171 words)

	The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H. P. Lovecraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mental disturbance, it is true, will age one rapidly; but the face of this young man had taken on a subtle cast which only the very aged normally acquire.
		This he deemed needful because of the impossibility of their not witnessing the final raid; and he explained his course by saying that Curwen was known to be a spy of the customs officers at Newport, against whom the hand of every Providence skipper, merchant, and farmer was openly or clandestinely raised.
		Yett will this auaile Nothing if there be no Heir, and if the Saltes, or the Way to make the Saltes, bee not Readie for his Hande; and here I will owne, I haue not taken needed Stepps nor founde Much.
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	ArtsEditor: the archives: curtain call
		We will consider Boston's theatrical season in this light, providing readers with a reaction to each show that is part-review, part-reflection.
		And though all the performers are elegantly dressed by Gail Astrid Buckley, Janie Howland's scenic design fails to lend the requisite lushness to the proceedings.
		Eight anarchists were convicted of the murder of a police officer despite no solid evidence that any of them had lifted a hand, and with ample evidence that several of them had no direct involvement in the riots.
	www.artseditor.com /html/sublevels/archives_curtaincall_0304.shtml (3325 words)

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