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...reasonable doubt. Even if they still show prejudice, the attorney may accept them: some people yearn to prove themselves unprejudiced. Moreover, lawyers commonly ask jurors in advance to guarantee disregard for this or that messy fact ("Will you disregard the defendant's adultery?"). Not for nothing does Percy Foreman devote as much as ten days to voir dire. "Once we chose the jury in the Candy Mossier case (see following story)," he says, "I knew we were in. They had promised to consider only murder as the crime on trial...
...only question was, how much were Candy and Melvin out? Last week they sued Foreman, demanding the return of assorted jewels and property that he took over as security for his $200,000 fee. Said Foreman: "I've known Mrs. Mossler for 16 years, and nothing she does would ever surprise...
...FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:56 p.m.). The dramatic changes in human personality brought about by the stress of war are vividly portrayed in Carl Foreman's 1963 epic, The Victors. The cast: Vincent Edwards, Albert Finney, Melina Mercouri, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton, Eli Wallach, George Peppard, Elke Sommer, Peter Fonda, James Mitchum and Senta Berger...
Morrison does. Things begin badly when he insults his assistant, a black Guianan named Philips, by mistaking him for a porter. Next, he is worried by the discovery that after a hard day, his Hindu foreman relaxes with hashish...
Most editors are convinced that jurors rarely recall pretrial publicity, since trials usually occur long after arrest. As for the trial itself, Houston's canny Criminal Lawyer Percy Foreman is all for complete trial (though not pretrial) publicity on the ground that news slanted against his client is sure to rouse jury sympathy. Foreman even favors televised trials: "The accused has a constitutional right to have the breaks on public opinion," he says. Atlanta Criminal Lawyer Pierre Howard argues that trial judges are already fully empowered to safeguard trials, for example, by granting changes of venue. "If a judge...