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Not long after Joan Barry filed the first paternity suit against Chaplin, federal prosecutors brought Mann Act charges against Charlie Chaplin in relation to Barry; he was acquitted.Photograph caption dated April 3, 1944 reads, "Defense attorney Jerry Giesler is shown today at the 'white slave' trial of comedian Charlie Chaplin, where he delivered the closing argument for his client, left, who sits alone at the counsel table."
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California Digital LibraryKeywords
- Barry, Joan
- California
- Cases
- Chaplin, Charlie
- Comedians
- Courtrooms
- Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Giesler, Jerry
- Herald Examiner Collection Photographs
- Lawyers
- Los Angeles
- Los Angeles Evening Herald And Express Photographs
- Mann Act Of 1910
- Motion Picture Actors And Actresses
- Trials
- Trials, Litigation, Etc
- United States
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