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Three woman jurors (including one alternate) recalled having heard some allegedly prejudicial remarks made by the court bailiff who had shepherded the jury during their 26-hour deliberation. For one thing, they claimed to have heard him say: "Oh, that wicked fellow, he is guilty." For another, the bailiff apparently had assured them that if convicting Parker turned out to be a mistake, "the Supreme Court will correct...
...court did indeed issue a correction. Last week out went Parker's conviction on the ground that he had been denied his Sixth Amendment right to cross-examine his accusers, meaning the bailiff. There was, held eight Justices, a "probability" that the jury was improperly swayed by "outside influence...
...finger ends." More hideous still was the burning of Perrotine Massey who, "being great with child, did fall on her side in the fire, where as the belly of the woman brast asunder, the infant fell into the fire, and being taken out was had to the bailiff, who gave censure that it should be carried back again...
...that she had been the wife rather than the paramour of a Nevada millionaire. In 1888, after Terry himself married Sarah, the case came before Supreme Court Justice Field, who was also serving as California's U.S. circuit judge. When Field ruled against Sarah, Terry floored a courtroom bailiff, served six months for contempt. After his release, he attacked Field on a California train and was about to draw his bowie knife when Field's bodyguard shot and killed him. Field went on to serve the longest term in Supreme Court history (34 years, nine months). Sarah spent...
...beneficiary can insure another person's life only if he holds an "insurable interest" or a substantial financial stake in that person's survival. A creditor can thus insure a debtor, an employer a key employee. So why not insure the litigant's "amen" when the bailiff cries, "God save this honorable court...