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Herbert L. Maris had an uncanny sense about the honest, innocent persons who had been falsely accused. With his lucrative private practice of corporate law, he also had the time and resources to help these people. He was an attorney who spent his spare time helping defendants unjustly charged by the State. The stories portrayed in this series ...
Aug 27, 2016 · Herbert Maris would enter the grim Eastern State Penitentiary, where a queue of convicts waited to tell variations of the same story: I didn’t do it. Forgotten nowadays, Maris was a pioneer of ...
Aug 29, 2016 · The New York Daily News looks back at the life of Herbert Maris, a Philadelphia corporate attorney who was a pioneer of prisoner innocence advocacy from the 1920s to the 1950s. Maris paid regular ...
Aug 29, 2016 · Before author Erle Stanley Gardner and his Court of Last Resort, before Jim McCloskey and Centurion Ministries, before Barry Scheck and Peter Neufield and their Innocence Project, there was Herbert Maris, a Philadelphia corporate attorney who pioneered prisoner innocence advocacy from the 1920s to the 1950s.
- Martin Yant
Lock Up: With Macdonald Carey, John Doucette, Joan Granville, Olive Carey. Cases taken from the files and case histories of renowned Philadelphia defense attorney Herbert L. Maris.
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- 1959-09-26
- Crime, Drama
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PHILADELPHIA API-Herbert L. Maris, 80, nationally prominent attorney whose escapades in proving convicted criminals innocent and the subject of a television program, died here today. He suffered a heart attack. Maris, primarily a corporation lawyer, was known for his activities on behalf of convicted criminals.
Maris, Herbert L. HERBERT L MARIS, LAWYER, WAS 80; Philadelphian. Noted for His Work in Behalf of Unjustly Convicted Prisoners Dies
