Word: juror
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This brush with the law was mighty close. The jury (seven men, five women) voted 11 to 1 for conviction. Juror Earle T. MacHardy, a suburban sugar buyer who had said on selection that his firm's dealings with the Teamsters Union would not affect the impartiality of his verdict, held out adamantly for acquittal. His reason: the U.S. Government had failed to make its circumstantial evidence stick. Though Jimmy was free to go (on $2,500 bond), he was by no means out of the courtroom woods. Ahead lie: 1) outcome of a suit by 13 rank...
Court Appeal. In Sydney. Australia, District Judge Eric Clegg ordered a new trial after a juror winked at a woman witness, despite the juror's explanation: "I caught the lady's eye, and my mother taught me it was polite to acknowledge a greeting...
...trends they felt most evident in the heavily abstract field: i) a move toward more recognizable subject matter, and 2) a surprising strength in oldtime geometric abstractions. Loren Maclver's softly luminous The Street (see next spread), which carried off first honors, was called by one juror "very, very sensitive and charming, with more feeling than almost any other picture there." Fritz Glarner's Relational Painting Number 79, second-prize choice, demonstrated that a Mondrian disciple can stress the master's geometry out of plumb and still retain its purity. An even more austere geometric form, Josef...
...legal barrier against news photographers in the courtroom. After two weeks of hearings and demonstrations of new photographic equipment (TIME, Feb. 13), the state Supreme Court unanimously gave Colorado judges discretion to permit coverage not only by photographers but also by radio and TV. Special condition: no witness or juror "shall be photographed or have his testimony broadcast over his expressed objection...
This is no justification for barring the wire recorder entirely, however, but only for surrounding its use with safeguards. There should be complete anonymity, and the cases used in the study should be allotted among as many different courts throughout the country as possible, so that no particular juror, even assuming that he knows such a study is going on, will feel his chances of being "tapped" are anything but miniscule. And, of course, the final reports of the study should avoid anything that might give away what cases were used...