Legal News for Fri 3/14 - Trump Loses More Federal Job Cut Cases, Columbia Disciplines Pro-Palestinian Protesters and Newsmax Paid $40m to Settle 2020 Election Defamation
This Day in Legal History: Jack Ruby Convicted
On March 14, 1964, Jack Ruby was convicted of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy. Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, had shot Oswald on live television two days after Kennedy’s assassination, as police were transferring Oswald from the city jail. The highly publicized trial concluded with a guilty verdict, and Ruby was sentenced to death. However, in 1966, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned the conviction, ruling that improper testimony had been admitted and that the trial should not have taken…
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