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Focuses on the law suit involving Murder Inc., a group of professional killers who worked solely for the National Crime Syndicate. Details of the public loading business in New York; Statement by Albert Tannenbaum, part of Murder Inc., to Edward A. Heffernan, Assistant District Attorney (DA) to then DA William O'Dwyer on the criminal case involving Albert Anastasia; Investigation of O'Dwyer's term as district attorney by a special jury headed by Charles Beldock; Sanction of funds to the State Crime Commission for the 1953 municipal election in New York City, New York State.

The article offers information on a court case in New York involving Black Panther Party that was charged with conspiring to bomb police stations, department stores and railroad tracks, and to assassinate policemen. The trial lasted eight months and cost an estimated 2,000,000 dollars. Presiding judge John Murtagh had dismissed all but twelve of the counts against each defendant when he sent the case to the jury. The jury has acquitted the defendants of every charge.

The article focuses on attorney Charles Garry and discusses controversies related to him. It states that Garry is the defense lawyer in the murder trial against Huey Newton, a member of Black Panther Party. It reports that in his defense argument for Newton, Garry praised as a selfless leader of people. It further mentions that Garry was absent during the court proceedings of conspiracy trial in Chicago Eight case in 1969. It further discusses the role of Garry as trial attorney for the Black Panthers Party and his views on communism.

The article reports that Court of General Sessions Judge Francis L. Valente has banned the press from attending the prostitution trial of socialite Minot Jelke III in Manhattan, New York City. The reasons why Valente decided to prohibit press attendance to the trial are described, noting that it was initially suggested by the attorney of prosecution's key witness Pat Ward. The reactions of the defense and local magazine editors to the said ban are also discussed.

The article reports on the seclusion of U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell and his wife Martha Mitchell in their apartment at Fifth Avenue in New York City due to their involvement in the Watergate scandal. The lives of the couple have changed after political organizer Jeb Stuart Magruder offered his testimony over the Watergate scandal. The couple avoided the public due to the fear of being accosted by reporters. Mitchell's lawyer has advised him not to release any public statement concerning testimonies against him due to the fear of prejudicing the case.

The article reports on the arrest of a United Nations' (UN) Russian employee named Igor Melekh in New York. It states that Melekh was charged with conspiracy because he transmitted the information to Soviet Union about the U.S. military installations in Chicago. It also notes that Edward Bennett Williams, the U.S. most famous criminal lawyer and Melekh's counsel, had several conferences with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy about Melekh's case.

This article presents a hypothetical case situation and asks readers to give their judgment. Out-of-town businessmen who rented cars from the local rental service frequently parked overtime and ignored the parking tickets. New York City one day demanded that the rental service pay all the parking fines plus additional fines for ignoring traffic summonses. The city attorney argued that the city ordinance makes it illegal for the registered owner of an automobile to "cause, allow, permit or suffer" it to be parked overtime. Therefore the rental service, as the registered owner of these vehicles, should pay regardless of who was driving them.