TAILIEUCHUNG - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 8 P47

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 8 P47 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 448 RULE car one block away from the police station around that time walked down the rampway to the basement garage of the police station. The guard at the basement entrance had momentarily left his post to stop traffic so that the police convoy with Oswald could leave the building. Ruby walked into the garage which was filled with police officers reporters and camera crews. As Oswald appeared flanked by police detectives Ruby approached him with a .38-caliber gun and fatally shot him. Ruby was immediately arrested. As Ruby prepared for his murder trial his attorney Tom Howard prepared a defense based on the theory that the killing was a crime of passion committed without malice or premeditation by an unstable man. If this defense had been successful Ruby would have received a maximum of five years in prison under Texas law. Before trial however Ruby s family discharged Howard and retained Melvin M. Belli a well-known and controversial San Francisco attorney. Belli elected to present a defense of total insanity in the hope Ruby would be acquitted. Belli asserted that Ruby had experienced an epileptic seizure and had shot Oswald while under the influence of this impairment. The case against Ruby was substantial. After the shooting Ruby had given statements to the police one of which suggested premeditation. Medical authorities did not support Belli s medical diagnosis of Ruby. On March 16 1964 a jury convicted Ruby of premeditated murder and he was sentenced to death. Ruby s conviction was reversed by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in October 1966 but he died in prison of a blood clot complicated by cancer on January 3 1967. Many questions surrounding Ruby s motives and actions remain unanswered. The Kennedy assassination and the Oswald shooting were investigated by a presidential commission headed by Chief Justice earl warren. The Warren Report issued in 1964 concluded that the bullets that killed Kennedy had been fired by Oswald s rifle and that there was no

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