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- DIED. Harold Medina, 102, prominent lawyer, legal scholar
- and federal judge; in Westwood, N.J. Medina left a lucrative
- law practice in 1947 to sit on the U.S. District Court for the
- Southern District of New York. Two years later, he presided
- over the trial of eleven Communist Party leaders accused of
- conspiracy to teach and advocate the overthrow of the Federal
- Government by force and violence. The eleven were convicted
- after a nine-month trial marked by rowdiness and personal abuse
- heaped on Medina by defense lawyers. In 1951 Medina succeeded
- Judge Learned Hand on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second
- Circuit, handing down opinions on a variety of arcane issues.
- He retired in 1980 after 33 years on the bench.
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