Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Federal legal precedent, based on the United States Supreme Court ruling in Swain vs. Alabama (1965), still allows lawyers to consider race in jury selection in federal courts...
HCHP is not tax-exempt until the court rules, Moreau said. In the meantime the board of assessors has the responsibility to determine outstanding taxes and submit a list to the tax collector," he added...
...court's decision establishes an important precedent in state law formerly, there were no restrictions on attorneys' right to reject potential jurors because of their race...
...three men convicted of murdering Andrew P. Puopolo '77 in 1976 will receive new trials after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided Thursday the prosecutor violated the Commonwealth constitution in the 1977 trial...
...seven-man court decided unanimously Thursday that Leon Easterling, Richard Soares and Richard S. Allen, who are all serving mandatory life sentences, did not receive fair trials because the assistant district attorney, Thomas L. Mundy Jr., misused peremptory challenges...