January 8, 2016 By Dramatic Listening Leave a Comment DL059: Intimidated Jury – Fishing for an Angle Mr District Attorney and the Intimidated Jury, (scene 8): Gone fishing? Where’s the District Attorney? He hasn’t gone fishing, has he? In this episode, Harrington comes looking for the DA, but the DA is not in his office right now. While waiting for the DA, Harrington and the District Attorney’s secretary talk shop. They discuss the […]
January 1, 2016 By Dramatic Listening Leave a Comment DL058: Intimidated Jury–The Heat Is On! Mr District Attorney and the Intimidated Jury, (scene 7): The heat is on, but Stanley is totally unaware of it. Boy, does this kid ever need to wake up and smell the coffee! This one’s on the house! Two episodes ago, Mr. Stanley, the hitman, killed jury foreman, Mr. Taylor, for Mr. Butler. Taylor was being […]
December 25, 2015 By Dramatic Listening Leave a Comment DL057: Intimidated Jury–Somebody’s Stooge Mr. District Attorney and the Intimidated Jury, (Scene 6): Just the stooge: The District Attorney and his secretary are talking about the case and they are quite satisfied that they have enough evidence to convict Mr. Taylor of jury tampering. It looks like Mrs. Clark was right. The jurors had been manipulated into voting ‘not […]
December 18, 2015 By Dramatic Listening Leave a Comment DL056: Intimidated Jury–A Jostled Kingpin Mr. District Attorney and the Intimidated Jury, (Scene 5): Everything to lose: The District Attorney has just informed Mr Taylor that a member of the jury, Mrs Clark, had charged him with swaying the jury into voting “not guilty”. He’s been warned. He could end up on trial. He could end up doing time in prison. By ‘doing time’, […]
December 11, 2015 By Dramatic Listening 2 Comments DL055: Intimidated Jury — Taking Offense Mr. District Attorney and the Intimidated Jury, (Scene 4) Taking offense: Harrington has rounded up the accused jury foreman, Mr Taylor, and brought him back to the DA’s office. When Taylor hears the charge against him, he takes offense. “Ridiculous! That’s libelous!” he cries, but it is all a pretense. Deep down inside, he knows he […]
December 4, 2015 By Dramatic Listening Leave a Comment DL054: Intimidated Jury — Gangster Etiquette Mr. District Attorney and the Intimidated Jury, (Scene 3) [Photo © VadimGuzhva/Bigstock.com]STANLEY: I wanna thank you, Mr. Butler.BUTLER: For what?STANLEY: For the fix.BUTLER: You mean the verdict? Gangster Etiquette In this episode, we see into the gangsters’ world. Now, when you’re being tried for murder, being faced with the electric chair, and someone gets you […]
November 27, 2015 By Dramatic Listening Leave a Comment DL053: Intimidated Jury 2-The Informant Mr. District Attorney: Intimidated Jury, (Scene 2) It’s not your fault: Harrington saw that the morning paper had an article about the Stanley trial. The paper supports the D.A. The article criticized the jury for reaching such a ridiculous verdict. Well, it’s good to know you have the public’s support, but it doesn’t change the situation. The Informant: […]
November 20, 2015 By Dramatic Listening Leave a Comment DL052: Intimidated Jury 1- Reasonable Doubt Mr District Attorney — Intimidated Jury, Scene 1: A Reasonable Doubt The Jury is Still Out As our story opens, we find a crime has already been committed. We are in a courtroom waiting for the jury to return with their verdict. Will they find Mr Stanley guilty or not guilty of murder? The District […]
November 13, 2015 By Wendy Lambert Leave a Comment DL051: MrDA — Intimidated Jury (Intro) The Old Time Radio Legal Thriller: Mr. District Attorney was a popular radio program on NBC and ABC radio stations from 1939 to 1952. Each episode is a legal story that centers on the court trial. Meet the Jury: When a serious crime has been committed, such as murder, the American legal system chooses a group […]
April 17, 2015 By Dramatic Listening Leave a Comment DL044: Unravel the Mystery Philip Marlowe and “The Feminine Touch” — Part 6: The unraveling: This is where the detective explains what happened and how he figured it out, so if you couldn’t keep up with Marlowe in scene 5, Eureka, then you can at least find out all about it after the fact. When you unravel something, like […]
