SALE OF VERDICTS
SENTENCE ON AMERICAN JUDGE TWO YEARS' IMPRISONMENT AND FINE. CASE ALMOST WITHOUT PARALLEL. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, (Received This Day. 12.40 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 20. Judge Martin Manton, of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and fined ten thousand dollars for betrayal of judicial trust. The sentence came as a climax to a sensational case in which evidence was given that Manton accumulated a huge fortune by selling verdicts. He was the first Federal Appeals Judge ever to be convicted. The Court, in imposing sentence, said the case "had no conspicuous parallel in the history of the English or American high judiciary since Francis Bacon, then Lord Chancellor of England, was deprived of his office for a similar cause, over three hundred years ago.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1939, Page 6
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133SALE OF VERDICTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1939, Page 6
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