The Fatty Arbuckle case (1962)

These were serious accusations, and the court was full of denials and argument. But Zey wasn't finished yet. "After I signed, they sent me home and guarded my house so I couldn't leave. The days of the trial they had me in the District Attorney's office learning a script they had prepared for me." Brady swore she lied and he'd find the Hollywood people who had given her the money to say these things. Friedman swore he'd track down the bribers and prove Zey guilty of outrageous perjury. No one ever found out who was telling the truth. No charges were ever preferred against Zey. But her testimony was damning. As one newspaperman put it, "It stank up the courtroom." Brady, though, didn't take it lying down. Milton UHen, a member of the D.A.'s staff, was put on the stand. He swore under oath that when he first questioned Zey Prevon, without coaching or pressure, she stated, and he read: "Virginia cried to me, Tm dying. He hurt me.' " McNab got in his two cents worth of poison. "Whose house were you imprisoned in— or rather, what member of the D.A.'s office had you imprisoned in his house?" Zey didn't hesitate. She named a staff member. "And he told me if I made one false step he'd put me under $10,000 bail." Friedman immediately said that was an outright lie. McNab then accused Friedman of trying to impeach his own witness. The second trial was becoming wilder than the first. There wasn't a fact offered without doubt being cast on it. A magazine ran a list of one hundred answers given during the first trial, every one of which was either contradicted or changed during the second trial. Brady swore evil Hollywood influences were making a mockery of San Francisco justice with bribery, perjury and deceit His attack to the jury actually was, "If you acquit this man, you are being unfaithful to your fancity." It was a good approach, since there wasn't much else he could go on, and it nearly worked. On January 24th, the District Attorney's office, with a 116