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Welcome back to Case Closed 60 Minutes of-time radio crime with a new episode every Wednesday.

We're going to begin this week with the Secrets of Scotland Yard and the case of Robert Wood.

That's followed up by the lineup in the Holstetter case.

That story aired December 21st, 1950.

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This is Tybrook.

I suppose you've often wondered if innocent men ever had,

and if guilty men are ever set free.

But have you considered how delicate are the scales of justice,

upon how little the balance sometimes depends, those cases

in which up to the last moment the verdict of the jury is in doubt, and yet the difference

between guilty and not guilty means life or death to the man who stands in the dock.

On what does that difference depend?

Apart from the obvious factors, of course.

Does it depend upon the degree of counsel's conviction of his client's innocence,

the ability of the prosecution of the defense,

the attraction or aversion of the jury to the man in the dock,

or perhaps the judge's breakfast on the day of the trial?

Let us consider the case of Robert Wood,

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