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- Title: Leopold v. Levin
- Author : Supreme Court of Illinois
- Release Date : January 27, 1970
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
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Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., the plaintiff, brought an action in the circuit court of Cook County, which was in the nature of a
suit alleging a violation of the right of privacy. The defendants included: the author, publishers and several local distributors
of a novel and a play, entitled "Compulsion," and the producer, distributor and Chicago area exhibitors of a related motion
picture of the same name. The trial court granted the plaintiff's motion for a summary judgment on the question of liability
and reserved the issue as to the amount of damages. The defendants appealed to this court but on the plaintiff's motion the
appeal was dismissed on the ground that the judgment was interlocutory and, hence, unappealable. When remanded, the case was
assigned to a different judge of the circuit court for pre-trial consideration on the question of damages. The defendants
at that point contested the judgment which had been entered by the predecessor judge. After extended proceedings the succeeding
judge vacated the summary judgment in favor of the plaintiff and granted the motions of the defendants for summary judgment
and judgment on the pleadings. A direct appeal has been taken by the plaintiff to this court, as a constitutional question
is involved. In 1924, Richard Loeb, who is deceased, and Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., the plaintiff, pleaded guilty to the murder and kidnapping
for ransom of a 14-year-old boy, Bobby Franks. Following a presentence proceeding, each was given consecutive prison sentences
of life and 99 years. The luridness of the crime, the background of the defendants, their representation by the most prominent
criminal advocate of the day, the "trial," and its denouement attracted international notoriety. Public interest in the crime
and its principals did not wane with the passage of time and the case became an historical cause celebre.
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