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<title>
Mar. 26, 1990: Died:Harold Medina
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Mar. 26, 1990 The Germans
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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MILESTONES, Page 65
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<p> DIED. Harold Medina, 102, prominent lawyer, legal scholar
and federal judge; in Westwood, N.J. Medina left a lucrative
law practice in 1947 to sit on the U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York. Two years later, he presided
over the trial of eleven Communist Party leaders accused of
conspiracy to teach and advocate the overthrow of the Federal
Government by force and violence. The eleven were convicted
after a nine-month trial marked by rowdiness and personal abuse
heaped on Medina by defense lawyers. In 1951 Medina succeeded
Judge Learned Hand on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit, handing down opinions on a variety of arcane issues.
He retired in 1980 after 33 years on the bench.
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