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...Foreman James I. Fox, a black musician, spent 20 minutes answering the court clerk's 156 queries on each specification of the indictment. Judge Murtagh had dismissed all but twelve of the counts against each defendant when he sent the case to the jury. Still, he left the basic prosecution case intact. Afterward, Juror Stephen Chaberski, a graduate student at Columbia University, explained the vote: "The government just did not prove its case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUSTICE: Panthers Acquitted | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

...think his last year or so pointed him in the direction of less reliance upon the aid and assistance of the Federal government, but more on his own charisma. The Poor People's March of course is a primary example, and he had been, as James Foreman said it, in the armpit of the Federal government. Jim had been trying to get him out from under that so he could do his own thing without being monitored and advised. I think he, King, was getting into that. Unfortunately, he was monitored in other ways. And King was not the only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Interview with John A. Williams | 5/19/1971 | See Source »

...defendants, most of whom had spent more than two years in jail since their arrests in April 1969, listened intently as the jury foreman re-sponded "not guilty" to the 156 separate counts, which also included charges of conspiracy to bomb police buildings and unlawful possession of weapons and explosives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grand Jury Acquits 13 Black Panthers | 5/14/1971 | See Source »

Rubber Chicken. A social clique formed around the jury's foreman, Herman Tubick, 58, an undertaker. Dubbed "Herman's kids," the group included Jean Roseland; Larry Sheely, 25, a telephone repairman; Anlee Sisto, 48, a school-district electronics technician; Bob Douglass, 35, an alternate juror; and Mrs. Hines, nicknamed "Giggle-bottom" because of her enthusiastic response to gags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Life Among the Manson Jurors | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

Calmly trying to deflate that notion, Superior Court Judge Harold Mulvey allowed great latitude to defense attorneys to probe for latent prejudices in prospective jurors. If a white man innocently remarked that he had nothing against "them," the defense swarmed all over him. A factory foreman who said that "my lead man is a colored boy" was later dismissed. Seale's own prejudices, in fact, affected the proceedings. When Garry questioned a white employee of the Schick Safety Razor Co., for example, Seale scribbled on paper: "His eyes don't blink. MECHANICAL CHAUVINIST." Garry used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Finally, a Jury | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

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