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...During a medical-malpractice suit in a Kentucky federal district court last year, Judge Henry Brooks refused to seat any women on the jury. His motive was pure chivalry. The plaintiff, a state convict named Ernest Abbott, was suing two prison doctors for failing to detect a cancer in its early stages. At the time, he suffered from advanced cancer of the penis and groin, and Judge Brooks wanted to spare women the details of medical testimony that might be "distasteful." Abbott lost his suit, and later died. Now the U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati has ruled that...
Moral Sense. As a Negro convict in Mississippi, Arthur could look forward to little more than sympathy, and not much of that. But the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, composed mostly of young attorneys from the North, brought a damage suit in the U.S. District Court in Greenwood. They did not bother to serve a summons on Williams, who by then was out of prison and living in Chicago. Instead, they served ten white officials, including Leflore County Sheriff John Arterbury, superintendent of the prison farm at the time of the shooting...
...thing straight, baby," said the convict angrily. "I've heard a lot of talk about 'rehabilitation' from you people here, but I've never seen any in jail. I was a laborer when I came in and the only thing I've learned is how to make license plate tags. I'll go out for six months, but I'll come back, baby...
...presumption of innocence, in criminal cases, Burger suggested, may be inconsistent with American civil procedure: "Certainly you have heard-and judges have said-that one should not convict a man out of his own mouth, The fact is that we establish responsibility and liability and we convict in all the areas of civil litigation out of the mouth of the defendant...
...unusual about Mattie is that he has a check in his pocket for $25,452.32-the accumulation with interest of his 47 years of prison wages. A large sum in a Depression year, and the good citizens of Glory aren't about to let a freshly pardoned convict walk off with it. "When I hit town at sunup I heared it," says a taleteller. "Talk. Everywheres. A muttering meanness. In the Krogers and the A.&P. and up at Pickett's Store and at the farmers' market out First Street by the glass works. Mean whispering, stranger...