Joe Nocera
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We had a lawyer on our show who said he became a lawyer because when he read about the Lindbergh trial and he was like 14 years old, he said, you know, I could have done better than this.
But having said that, it wasn't just the defense.
The handwriting analysis is just one example.
I understand there was something critically important about the ladder itself.
Well, that is in dispute to this day.
Well, the prosecution said, as definitive proof that Hauptmann did it, that a piece of wood from his attic had been cut out
It was not a ladder you go into Home Depot and buy.
It's at the New Jersey State Police Museum.