Word: j
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henry F. Owens III, Allen's lawyer, called Judge Paul J. Lincos's 41-page majority opinion "a landmark decision, the first time in the history of the Commonwealth that our supreme judicial court has said that a peremptory challenge to exclude blacks systematically violates the constitution...
...Court granted the new trial because district attorney Thomas J. Mundy, prosecutor for the case, used peremptory challenges to eliminate black jurors. The three defendants--all of them black--were convicted of murdering Puopolo...
...corporations which use federal land for grazing, timbering or running ski resorts. An analogy is made to the right to drill for oil off-shore: "What's good for America's oil companies is good for America's commercial broadcasting," says commission chairman and Columbia University president William J. McGill. Like its predecessor--which advocated an excise tax on all television sets--Carnegie II makes its proposals in a political vacuum. In arguing that spectrum fees will provide a "safe" flow of funds, the commission overlooks glaring precedent: At one time, revenues from gasoline taxes were to be dedicated exclusively...
Justice Paul J. Liacos, who wrote the majority opinion for the seven-man court, stated that the prosecutor's misuse of peremptory challenges to eliminate jurors on the basis of race violated the Commonwealth constitution...
...trial of the three black defendants, assistant district attorney Thomas J. Mundy Jr. used peremptory challenges to reject 12 of the 13 black jurors whom the trial judge found fit to serve...