Biography
John was a Trenton Six defendant. Acquitted on retrial 1951.
The April 1951 report identifies Ralph J. Smalley as presiding judge and Mario H. Volpe as prosecutor during the Trenton Six retrial.
The April 1951 retrial court excluded John MacKenzie’s typed statement from evidence.
William A. Reuben’s April 4, 1951 National Guardian retrial report attributes an individual arrest chronology to the police witnesses: MacKenzie was arrested the Wednesday following English’s Friday, February 6 arrest; the report separately dates his disputed signed statement February 12. The relative weekday is retained without assigning an exact arrest day. This chronology differs from the previously recorded common February 10 date; the conflicting reports are preserved here without changing the case date or calculating a new custody total. The account reports disputed police testimony about the statements, not an independent finding that the confessions were voluntary or true. Contemporary retrial report, printed page 8.
