Melvin Mouron Belli (July 29, 1907 - July 9, 1996) is a famous American lawyer known as "The King of Torts" and by the insurance company as "Melvin Bellicose." He has many celebrity clients, including Zsa Zsa Gabor, Errol Flynn, Chuck Berry, Muhammad Ali, The Rolling Stones, Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker, Martha Mitchell, Maureen Connolly, Lana Turner, Tony Curtis and Mae West. He won over $ 600 million in judgment during his legal career. He is also a lawyer for Jack Ruby, who shot Lee Harvey Oswald for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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Belli was born in California's Gold Rush, Sonora, California, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. His parents are of Italian descent from Switzerland. Her grandmother, Anna Mouron, was the first female pharmacist in California. In the 1920s, the family moved to the town of Stockton, California where Belli attended Stockton High School.
Belli graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1929. After traveling the world, he received LL.B. from Boalt Hall Law School in Berkeley in 1933.
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Careers
After his acceptance to the California bar, his first job was to pose as a hobo for the Works Progress Administration and climb the tracks to observe the effects of Depression on the homeless population in the country. His first major legal victory came shortly after graduation, in a personal injury suit that represented the grip of a wounded cable car. Upon objections to insurance lawyers, Belli carries a model of cable car intersections, and the gear boxes and chains involved in the crash, to show the jury exactly what has happened.
In addition to his personal injury cases, obtained by his nickname "King of Torts," Belli plays an important role in founding some of the basic laws of modern consumer rights, arguing with some cases in the 1940s and 1950s that formed the basis for later lawsuits and landmark litigation by such figures as Ralph Nader. Belli argued (in cases like Escola v. Coca-Cola Bottling Co., in 1944, emerging from an incident in which a restaurant manager from Merced, California was injured by a Coca-Cola bottle explode.) that all products have implied warranties, that it will be predicted that the product will be used by a long chain of people, not just direct recipients of manufactured products, and that the defendant's negligence does not need to be proven if the defendant's product is damaged.
In his book Ready for Plaintiffs, Belli notes examples of omissions cited by himself and other private lawyers to win in court - for example, a colleague in Florida, who showed how a builder violated code building in Miami Beach about the use of wood shims in the construction of the outer wall (prohibited by city code due to the influence of sea and air salt). The one facing is the Vitreous marble slab, whose clarity is ultimately attenuated by the climate; it fell from the side of the building and injured a pedestrian, who sued the builder. After winning a court case, Belli will lift the Jolly Roger flag over his office building on Montgomery Street in the Barbary Coast district of San Francisco (which Belli claims to be a Gold Rush-era brothel) and fire a cannon, mounted on the roof of his office, to declare victory and upcoming party.
In his most famous case, Belli represents Jack Ruby, for free, after Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald. Belli tried to prove that Ruby is legally insane and has a history of mental illness in her family. On Saturday, March 14, 1964, Ruby was convicted of "murder with crime", and received the death penalty. Soon after, Ruby and his siblings fired Belli because they also hired and fired several other lawyers during the case. At the end of 1966, Ruby's conviction was reversed with the help of another defense attorney on the grounds that he did not receive a fair trial and a retrial was scheduled outside Dallas, but Ruby died of cancer before a re-trial could be done. Belli became very critical of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
In 1969 a man named San Francisco police, identified himself as a serial killer known as the Zodiac, and agreed to call Jim Dunbar's talk show host on Dunbar's morning television talk show A.M. San Francisco if Belli or lawyer F. Lee Bailey is present in the air. Police contact Belli and Dunbar to arrange this in hopes of catching individuals. As promised, the suspect summoned, spoke a few words, and then hung up, repeating this activity 54 times over the next two hours. Belli received a letter from the Zodiac that same year.
The Belli company filed for bankruptcy protection in December 1995. Belli represents 800 women in a class action lawsuit against Dow Corning breast implant manufacturers. Belli wins the lawsuit, but when Dow Corning announces bankruptcy, Belli has no way to return the $ 5 million that the fees have been filed to doctors and expert witnesses.
In the 1960s, Belli was one of the prominent members of the California plain bar who helped establish the California Trial Lawyers' Association, which in the mid-1990s was named the California Consumer Lawyer. The organization was established to help set standards and encourage ongoing legal education to help consumers have a better chance in court against a strong legal team collected by insurance companies and large corporations that usually are accused in accidents, personal injuries and other consumers. lawsuits.
In media
The Belli Executive produced Tokyo File 212 (1951), the first Hollywood film entirely taken in Japan. It featured Florence Marly and Robert Peyton in key roles.
Belli appeared on "And the Children Shall Lead", a 1968 episode of the original Star Trek series. In it he appears as "Gorgan, the Friendly Angel", an evil creature that destroys a group of children, one of whom is played by his son, Caesar.
He appeared in the documentary film Albert and David Maysles Gimme Shelter (1970), featuring the representation and facilitation of The Rolling Stones' staging from December 6, 1969 disaster, Altamont Free Concert. Belli enjoys her television appearances and frequent movies; in 1965, he told Alex Haley, interviewing him for Playboy, that he was "probably an actor" if he did not become a lawyer. In 1986 he played as a criminal defense attorney in the episode of Hunter's TV series entitled "True Confessions."
In 1996, Belli read a speech about David Woodard's David Woodard brass racket, "The War Prayer" at First First Church in San Francisco.
Belli was played by Brian Cox in the 2007 Zodiac movie, in a scene depicting Belli's conversation with a Zodiac suspect on A.M. San Francisco .
Author
Belli is the author of several books, including the six-volume Modern Test (written between 1954 and 1960) which has become a classic textbook on demonstration methods presenting evidence. Belli's unprecedented - and some inappropriate thoughts - the use of graphic evidence and expert witnesses later became common practice in the courtroom. His autobiography, My Life on Trial is his life story and the important events he has been involved with throughout his career. He also wrote an introduction to "847.0 The Whiplash Injury" by L. Ted Frigard, D.C. which was published in 1970. Frigard has helped Belli with his pain through chiropractic care.
Personal life
Belli married six times and five times divorced. His marriage to his fifth wife, former Lia Georgia Triff, ended in a humiliating and fierce divorce in 1991. Belli accused his ex-wife of having an affair with bishop Desmond Tutu and threw one of his dogs into the Golden Gate Bridge.. He was fined $ 1,000 for repeatedly calling him "El Trampo". At one point, Belli was expelled from the courtroom after accusing the judge of sleeping with his ex-wife's lawyer. He eventually had to pay about $ 15 million. He later married Romanian prince Paul Lambrino. Belli married his sixth wife, Nancy Ho, on March 29, 1996. His youngest son, Melia, from Lia's fifth wife, became an art historian, and is currently assistant professor of Asian art history at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Death
Belli died of complications from pancreatic cancer, at his home in San Francisco, on July 9, 1996, age 88. His death came suddenly, and in the presence of his wife, Nancy. The New York Times quoted his publicist Edward Lozzi as saying, "He is sitting, he just stops breathing". At the time of his death, he had three sons, three daughters, twelve grandchildren, and two dogs. He is buried at the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Sonora, California, where his birth.
Bibliography
- 1950, The Voice of Modern Trials
- 1951, Adequate Awards
- 1952, More Adequate Awards
- 1952, More Adequate Awards and Flying Saucers
- 1954, Modern Exam (6 volumes)
- 1955, Use of Demonstrative Evidence in Achieving a More Fair Award
- 1955, Medical Malpractice
- 1956, Blood Money Ready for Plaintiff
- 1956, Ready for Plaintiff: Personal Injury Law Story
- 1959, Modern Damage (6 volumes)
- 1960, Belli Sees Life and Law in Japan
- 1963, Belli Sees Life and Law in Russia
- 1964, Justice Dallas: The Real Story of Jack Ruby And His Exam
- 1967, Trial Tactics
- 1968, Criminal Law
- 1968, Rebellion Law: A Summary of Modern Criminal and Civil Law Trends
- 1968, Legal Revolution
- 1971, Angela: A Revealing Women's Close-Ups and Trials
- 1976, My Life in Court: Autobiography
- 1983, Belli File
- 1986, Everyone's Guide to Law (co-author Allen P. Wilkinson)
Filmography (as actor)
- 1968, Star Trek (like Gorgan in the episode "And the Children Shall Lead")
- 1968, Wild in the Streets (as her)
- 1970, Gimme Shelter (as her)
- 1972, Arnie (TV series, as Jonathan Berrenger, attorney)
- 1973, Ground Zero (a.k.a Golden Gate is Ground Zero )
- 1978, Lady of the House (TV, as Mayor Jim San Francisco)
- 1979, Whodunnit? (TV series, as itself)
- 1984, Guilty or Innocent (TV series, as her)
- 1991, Murder, She Wrote (TV series, as Judge Harley in episode "From Horse Mouth")
- 2000, American Justice , "Divorce Wars" (TV series)
Source
- Melvin Belli, King of the Courtroom by Mark Shaw, Barricade Books, 2006
References
Bibliography
- Life and limbs: report on Melvin M. Belli's career, personal injury trial lawyer (1st ed.). Garden City, New York: Doubleday. p.Ã, 239. OCLCÃ, 644277.
External links
- Seek Help for Melvin M. Belli's letters, 1939-1989 (bulk 1955-1980) at The Bancroft Library
- "Enter justice, with crocodile boots and a polka-dot tie" (December 11, 1984)
- Film interview with Belli
- 1996 Render Belli from "The War Prayer" (mp3)
- Melvin Belli on IMDb
- Melvin Belli on Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
- "Largest Melvin Belli Creditor & Legal Claims From 11/95 Bankruptcy"
- FBI files at Melvin Belli
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