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Harlan also noted that the Constitution does not spell out the rule that juries must be unanimous in order to convict. As a result, he suggested, that rule, too, may be called into question by White's refusal to preserve common-law tradition. Said Harlan: "The uncertainty that will henceforth plague the meaning of trial by jury is itself a sufficient reason for not hoisting the anchor to history...
...damning indictment of what Kunstler and Froines called the "system" that, on its own terms, it was able to compile a minimum of evidence against the Chicago defendants and convict them without seriously violating any of its own principles. The defendants had not seriously intended to absolve themselves on any legalistic basis; in fact, with the passage of the "inciting to riot" law, they could not possibly have done so. It is conceivable that the "inciting" law will be overturned by a higher court; it is unlikely that a federal judge's power to convict and sentence for contempt will...
...find a glimmer of hope in the jury's refusal to convict the Seven of conspiring to plot the police riot during the Democratie National Convention; the government away to jail for Thoughtcrime. Nevertheless, everyone who has protested, at Chicago, or Washington, or Boston, against this nation's terrible insanity, should recognize the trial in Chicago as the most obvious attempt yet at political repression. When the courts resort to locking up lawyers we must realize how absurd quiet faith in the judicial process really is. One defendant thanked Hoffman for finally and totally exposing the American system...
Resplendent in a magenta shirt and fringed-leather jacket, Dr. Timothy Leary, 49, the guru of psychedelia, heard a Laredo, Texas, jury convict him for the second time of smuggling marijuana from Mexico in his daughter's underwear. "Stay loving and keep cool," advised the smiling impenitent, whose first conviction for the 1965 border incident was thrown out by the Supreme Court. "I am sorry the Government learned nothing in five years...
...choice. The three students on the Committee now represent what can only be considered the ultimate in indirect non-election. Unfortunately, it would make little difference if the students were elected by a direct election next week, for a majority, three administrators and two Faculty members, is enough to convict and sentence on the Committee...