Jake W. Ehrlich (October 15, 1900 - December 24, 1971) was an American lawyer.
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Biography
Born near Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland. Known as "Master," Jake Ehrlich has a fifty-year career as a defense and divorce lawyer in San Francisco. He wrote a dozen books about the law, the Bible, and his own life story. Ehrlich's life is a model for television attorney Perry Mason, starring Raymond Burrand Sam Benedict , described by Edmond O'Brien.
He holds a law degree and later became a doctor at Georgetown University. He married Marjorie Mercer on June 30, 1920.
For much of his career, he was the sole lawyer for the San Francisco Police Officers Association. Ehrlich defended prostitutes and police during the 1937 Grand Jury process initiated by the work of Edwin Atherton, hired by San Francisco DA to investigate police aberrations.
Slogan Ehrlich adalah, "Never Plead Guilty."
His celebrity clients include actors, writers, nightclub entertainers, directors, musicians, sports figures, industrialists, madames, assassins, bigamists and petty criminals. Included in the client list is; Alexander Pantages for rape by law, Gene Krupa for cannabis, Billie Holiday for heroin, Errol Flynn and James Mason for divorce, Howard Hughes for The Outlaw film, and Gertrude Morris for killing her husband in 1952. also defended rapist Caryl Chessman and Sally Rand stripper.
In 1957, he led lawyers for Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of City Lights Books along with L. Speiser and Al Bendich, defended the sale of Allen Ginsberg Howl and Other Poems in an obscenity trial. In the feature film of 2010 Howl , Ehrlich is played by actor Jon Hamm. In other relationships with the entertainment world, Ehrlich is the father-in-law for the famous recording star Guy Cherney.
Ehrlich's residence is designed with a sliding glass roof at the top of Camino Alto Road in Marin County, in Northern California, then owned by rock promoter Bill Graham. Ehrlich likes to tell people who visit his house that the electronic roof is actually powered by clients who can not afford to pay their legal bills.
Bibliography
Books written:
- Blackstone Ehrlich
- Howl of the Censor (ISBNÃ, 0-8371-8685-4)
- Ehrlich Criminal Law
- Criminal Proof
- Educated Attorney
- What's Wrong with the Jury System
- Lost Crusade (ISBN 0-88029-151-6)
- The Divorce Case Trial
- the Scriptures and the Law (ISBNÃ, 1-58477-192-5)
- Reasonable doubts
- Life in My Hands - autobiography
- Conflicts of Interest - with B. Williams
- Howl of the Censor - editor (ISBNÃ, 1-11117-504-7)
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References
External links
- Jake Ehrlich Warning page
- Jake Ehrlich Sr. on The Tonight Show 1964 Starring Johnny Carson
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