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...resented the inconvenience of a bus ride home in the middle of midterms, and was appalled by the 8:30 a.m. check-in time at the district courthouse, I secretly looked forward to fulfilling my civic obligation. My enthusiasm was fueled by a pamphlet, the “Trial Juror??s Handbook,” that explained the importance of jury service. “As a juror, you will have to make difficult judgements [sic] involving all of the human passions—love, hate, greed, anger, etc.,” the Handbook promised, and accordingly...
...those years he became the city’s most notorious media-darling, mainly because federal prosecutors just couldn’t seem to convict him. As he won acquittal after acquittal—either by intimidating key witnesses or, in a 1986-87 case, by paying off a juror??Gotti gained a reputation as the city’s “Teflon Don,” for it was said that no charges would stick to him. He was, as Sante points out, “New York’s bandit king...
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