Word: dellis
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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Brainwiping. In 1957 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled by a vote of 5 to 4 that federal juries could be trusted to follow judges' instructions and compartmentalize the evidence against codefendants, because otherwise "the jury system does not make sense." But in that decision (Delli Paoli v. U.S.), the four dissenters argued, in the words of Justice Felix Frankfurter, that whatever is said in joint trials "cannot be wiped from the brains of the jurors." And this year the court seemed to lean toward the Frankfurter attitude as it struck down a similar kind of mental gymnastics...