| 词条 | Louis Piquett |
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| name = Louis Piquett | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | residence = Chicago | death_date = December 12, 1951 | death_place = Chicago | cause = | resting_place = Hillside Cemetery, Platteville, WI | nationality = American | alias = | allegiance = | motive = | charge = Harboring a fugitive (John Dillinger) Harboring a fugitive (Homer Van Meter) | conviction = Acquitted Convicted | conviction_penalty = 2 years and $10,000 fine | conviction_status = Pardoned in 1951 | occupation = Lawyer }} Louis Piquett (September 24, 1880 - December 12, 1951) was an American lawyer notable for defending John Dillinger. He was also a prosecutor for the city of Chicago. Early careerPiquett was a former bartender active in Chicago Democratic politics. He studied law in night school.[1] By 1915 he was chief clerk to the city prosecutor of Chicago.[2] In the early 1920s he was appointed city prosecutor by Mayor William Hale Thompson.[1] He was indicted in 1923 on corruption charges, which were subsequently dropped.[3] By the Summer of 1923 Piquett was in private practice in Chicago. In August 1923, for instance, he represented James J. McGrath, who owned films showing a boxing match between Tommy Gibbons and Jack Dempsey. Piquett won a decision from the circuit court which stated that the films were neither immoral nor obscene, and enjoined the police from interfering with their exhibition.[4] In 1931, Piquett defended Leo Vincent Brothers against charges of murdering Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle.[5] Defense of DillingerIn 1934 Piquett defended Dillinger in Crown Point, Indiana. He successfully argued that Dillinger should be allowed to appear in court free of shackles and without armed guards present.[3] After Dillinger's dramatic pre-trial escape, an investigation by the state of Indiana revealed Piquett's complicity.[6] Criminal chargesIn January 1935, Piquett was charged with harboring the fugitive Dillinger and of conspiring with a number of others, including two doctors, to hide Dillinger while he underwent plastic surgery. He was acquitted after less than four hours of deliberation.[7] During this trial he was called "the brains of the Dillinger mob."[8] In May 1935 he was convicted of harboring Dillinger associate Homer Van Meter, fined $10,000,[1] and served time in the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth. Piquett appealed his sentence all the way up to the Supreme Court of the United States, which denied certiorari in 1936.[9] He was pardoned for this crime in 1951 by President Harry Truman.[10] DeathHe died in Chicago in 1951.[10] References1. ^1 2 {{cite news|title=Piquett Gets Two Years for Harboring Killer|page=44|date=June 28, 1935|publisher=New York Times}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Piquett, Louis}}2. ^{{cite book|author=Chicago. Dept. of public welfare|title=Social service directory 1915|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gVsuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA176|accessdate=29 December 2012|year=1915|publisher=H. G. Adair, printing|page=176}} 3. ^1 {{cite book|first=Bryan|last=Burrough|title=Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mHkkSrRvCKoC|accessdate=29 December 2012|date=29 April 2009|publisher=Penguin|isbn=978-0-14-311586-1|page=211ff}} 4. ^{{cite news|title=To Show Fight Films: Pictures of Dempsey-Gibbons Bout Passed by Chicago Judge|page=7|date=September 1, 1923|publisher=New York Times}} 5. ^{{cite news|title=Testimony Closes in Brothers Trial|page=13|date=April 2, 1931|publisher=New York Times}} 6. ^{{cite book|author=Claire Bond Potter|title=War on Crime: Bandits, G-Men, and the Politics of Mass Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cRF1jzIHYBIC&pg=PA145|accessdate=29 December 2012|year=1998|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-2487-0|page=145}} 7. ^{{cite news|title=Dillinger's Lawyer is Acquitted by Jury|page=10|publisher=New York Times|date=January 15, 1935}} 8. ^{{cite book|first=Richard|last=Cahan|title=A Court That Shaped America: Chicago's Federal District Court from Abe Lincoln to Abbie Hoffman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ALsW1pAD4A0C&pg=PT114|accessdate=29 December 2012|date=18 December 2002|publisher=Northwestern University Press|isbn=978-0-8101-1981-9|page=114}} 9. ^{{cite news|title=Cutten Victory is Hinted: Various Other Decisions Handed Down by Supreme Court|page=14|date=April 28, 1936|publisher=New York Times}} 10. ^1 {{cite news|title=Louis Piquett|date=December 13, 1951|publisher=New York Times|page=33}} 7 : Lawyers from Chicago|Criminal defense lawyers|1951 deaths|Crimes in Indiana|Crimes in Chicago|Year of birth uncertain|1880 births |
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