Word: boyd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letter signed by the following professors "R. Arnheim, J. Beck with, S. Bowles, R.N. Boyd, J.P. Breeden, M. Brenner, J. Cadden, O.Chateaubriand, C.F. Cleland, C. Cohen, I.J. Danziger, S. Davis. B.I. DeVore, J.D. Elder, J. Fjellman, S. Fjellman, and H. Gintis...
...only two jury members who held out for a conviction. Asked if some jurors were influenced by the religious calling of the defendants, he said: "Yes. Some felt they could do no wrong. They were really prejudiced." Juror Vera Thompson, a Carlisle, Pa., stock clerk, allowed that Boyd Douglas, the Government's star witness, was "the reason you had a hung jury." She explained that several jurors simply did not believe Informer Douglas, the ex-convict who shuttled the Berrigan-McAlister letters in and out of prison and later turned copies over...
...cause has been the recent spate of celebrated cases in which police agents played a role-from the trials of the Chicago Seven and the Seattle Eight to virtually all of those involving Black Panthers. Currently, civil libertarians are questioning the propriety of the prosecution's use of Boyd Douglas, the FBI informant central to the just-concluded Harrisburg Seven trial (see THE NATION). Still more questions have been raised by the ongoing trial of 28 people accused of destroying draft files in Camden, N.J. Four weeks ago, Robert Hardy, a paid FBI informer, suddenly announced that Government money...
...Philbrick (/ Led Three Lives). As Philbrick's case suggests, the usually unsavory reputation of informers often vanishes if the cause seems especially just -or at least popular. The FBI'S hired hand who fingered the Ku Klux Klan killers of Viola Liuzzo generated considerably less controversy than Boyd Douglas...
...Richard Boyd, Dept. of Philosophy Harvard University...