Leibowitz, Samuel S., 1893-1978

LC control no.	n 81066775
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Personal name heading	Leibowitz, Samuel S., 1893-1978 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Leibowitz, Samuel Simon, 1893-1978 Lebeau, Samuel S., 1893-1978 Leibovici, Simon, 1893-1978
Birth date	18930814
Death date	19780111
Place of birth	Iași (Romania)
Affiliation	New York (State). Criminal Court (Kings County, N.Y.) New York (State). Supreme Court
Profession or occupation	Lawyers Judges
Found in	Pasley, F.D. Not guilty!: the story of Samuel S. Leibowitz, 1933 Courtroom: the story of Samuel S. Leibowitz, 1951 The defender: the life and career of Samuel S. Leibowitz, 1893-1933, 1981 Jewish Virtual Library, via WWW, September 25, 2013 (Leibowitz, Samuel Simon (Samuel S. Lebeau, 1893-1978); U.S. lawyer and jurist; Leibowitz was taken from Jassy, Romania, to New York at the age of four; in 1917 he began a brilliant career as a criminal lawyer; of the 140 capital cases that Leibowitz defended, he saved the lives of all but one client, and attained national renown in his 1933-1935 defense without fee of nine black youths charged with the rape of a white woman in Scottsboro, Alabama; although the nine "Scottsboro Boys" were originally convicted and sentenced to death, Leibowitz secured acquittals for four of them at a retrial in 1937; a flamboyant attorney who defended the gangster Al Capone four times, Leibowitz became an impassioned jurist who imposed extraordinarily severe sentences on criminals, and extirpated corrupt officials; Leibowitz served on the King's County Court of Brooklyn from 1949 to 1961, when he was appointed to the New York State Supreme Court; Leibowitz was president of the United Organization for Israel Pioneers and a member of the New York Federation of Jewish Philanthropies) Guide to Samuel Simon Leibowitz Papers, 1939-1976, Collection Number: 3923, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, via WWW, Sepermber 26, 2013: (Samuel Simon Leibowitz earned his B.A. and his LL.B. from Cornell University; as a lawyer, he defended, and ultimately exonerated, the Scottsboro Boys; he later became a judge on the New York Supreme Court, where he remained until mandatory retirement at age 76) Wikipedia, September 25, 2013 (Samuel Leibowitz; Samuel Simon Leibowitz (August 14, 1893-January 11, 1978) was a Romanian-born American criminal defense attorney, famously noted for winning the vast majority of his cases, who later became a judge in New York City; born in Iași, Kingdom of Romania, in 1893 and arrived in New York City on March 14, 1900; he and his family traveled to New York on a ship called the Kensington, and he is listed on the ship's manifest as "Simon Leibovici" along with his parents, listed as Avram and Bina Leibovici, Jewish immigrants from Romania; a biography of Judge Leibowitz by Quentin Reynolds published in 1950 and a biography by Fred Pasley published in 1933 erroneously list the arrival date as March 17, 1897 and list the Judge's original last name as "Lebeau," but these are both incorrect)
Associated language	eng