Word: juror
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week had been devoted to picking a jury, a process laboriously protracted by the twelve defense attorneys. This battery, which included such well-known Labor lawyers as John F. Finerty of Washington and New York's onetime (1932) Socialist candidate for Governor, Louis Waldman, exhaustively questioned every prospective juror about his Labor views, peremptorily challenged everyone who confessed to the slightest prejudice against unions or their activities. Time & again Prosecutor Dewey leaped up to protest that no union was on trial. At week's end 500 A. F. of L. unionists rallied to a meeting of the city...
...verdict was "guilty." There were 62 specific charges against each of the nine defendants. Defense lawyers demanded that each juror be polled. It took three-quarters of an hour. Each juror declared each defendant guilty of every charge against him. Said Judge to Jurors: "I congratulate you on the service you have rendered the people and the righteousness of your verdict." He smiled in the Sabbath dawn. "And now run along...
...theory projected in most of the eight books, five plays and 80 articles that have been written on the subject since Dickens died in 1870. That verdict was handed down in 1914 after a literary mock trial at which Gilbert Keith Chesterton was judge, George Bernard Shaw a juror. A notable dissident, however, is Stephen Leacock. This humorist and McGill University economist believes that for Drood to be murdered is too obviously unmysterious. According to Dickensian Leacock, Drood managed to escape a murderous assault by Jasper, but the choirmaster, in an opium dream, fancied he was accomplishing the murder nonetheless...
...stand Arthur Koehler, head of the Federal Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, was delivering a three-hour illustrated lecture on wood. Carpenter Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the German stowaway accused of kidnapping and killing Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., paid close attention because his life was at stake. Carpenter Liscom Case, Juror No.11, listened and looked carefully because he knew that the other jurors would respect his judgment on a vital aspect of the case when the time came to weigh Hauptmann's fate...
State Opens. All twelve jurors had sworn that they had formed no prejudgment on the 20th Century's most fantastic murder case. One amazing prospective juror was found who confessed that he had never heard of the Hauptmann-Lindbergh affair, indeed did not even know for what case he had been called. He was challenged by the defense for "terrible lack of intelligence," excused...