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Judge Walter J. Skinner finished charging the eight-man, four-woman jury at 3:02 p.m. yesterday, and the jury will continue deliberating today...
After the trial, Howe's attorney explained that in Utah a defendant is entitled to an automatic appeal to District Court and a trial with an eight-man jury. The attorney said Howe could not have received a fair trial in City Court and hence decided to wait until District Court to present his case...
...eight-man Marine trial board did not need very long to reach a verdict. After deliberating less than four hours-including a break for dinner -the board last week acquitted Staff Sergeant Harold Bronson of involuntary manslaughter, maltreatment and assault. Bronson, a drill instructor (D.I.), was tried for the death last March of Private Lynn E. ("Bubba") McClure. During a mock bayonet drill supervised by Bronson, other recruits beat McClure, 20, a mental retardate, into a vegetable...
...notorious acts would go unpunished." Besides, he added, the members of the Calley court-martial panel were scrupulously examined for their ability to be fair and open-minded. Five appeals judges believed Calley was unconstitutionally denied access to the findings of a congressional My Lai investigation, but an eight-man majority felt that his defense was not really hurt and reinstated his conviction. The case, with its important publicity v. fair-trial question, will now be appealed to the Supreme Court, but for Calley himself, working as a construction worker in Columbus, Ga., the outcome will have no practical significance...
Harvard's Dick Cashin, Al Shealy and Dave Weinberg rowed on the men's national team boat in the major event of the day, the men's senior eights. The eight-man boat, which won at the world championships in 1974, narrowly beat the Ridley Boat Club of Canada, finishing the 2000 meter course in 5 minutes 38.7 seconds...