Word: harrision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then the jurors retired to a deliberation room dominated by wooden tables, where they joined in macabre re-enactments of the crime. "We used two tables to simulate the bed," recalls Marian West, an administrative assistant for a community service program. Von Glahn, donning the bloodstained pajama top, played the...
For eight days the discussions and re-enactments continued, never acrimonious but always intense. The jurors applied no pressure on each other. On the ground floor, a hundred or so journalists and half as many dedicated trial followers waited. The celebrity of the victim and the social standing of the...
Then came the final scene: Jean Harris, primly clad in a suede jacket and brown skirt, her hair held back by a tortoise shell band, was led in, staring straight ahead. Each day of the ordeal seemed to have shriveled her a bit more. The jurors, stone faced and grim...
Two of the defense lawyers started to cry. Aurnou, who has announced plans to appeal but has not yet said on what grounds, explained later that he did not present any psychological testimony, which some jurors said would have been useful to the defense, because he did not believe Harris...
A sheriffs deputy moved behind Harris as the judge remanded her into custody. To her attorney she whispered: "Joel, I can't sit in jail." With the verdict, gone was the $220,000 Tarnower had left her in his will; under state law convicted murderers forfeit any bequests from...