Word: juror
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dividend. In Indianapolis, Criminal Court Judge Saul I. Rabb rejected a request that the jury members in a robbery case be examined by a psychiatrist, commented: "There's no statutory requirement that a juror be sane...
...professed love for his wife-despite her frigidity and his infidelity-and for their son "Chip," 7. "I didn't do it," he insisted. "I couldn't do it to any animal or any human. I couldn't have possibly done such a thing." The jurors took up their task in a locked room, crowded with a table, twelve wooden chairs and 214 court exhibits, some ugly with blood. For five days the seven men and five women-all had been married and one was a college graduate-debated the evidence. They dismissed the legal oratory...
...Stranger. In Xew Haven, Conn.. Judge James C. Shannon ordered an immediate mistrial when Juror Timothy Lyons fainted, was revived by Dr. Carl Y. Pantaleo. the defendant...
...Reginald Rose, started out with an old idea (what happens in a jury room) but turned it into a crisp and exciting melodrama. Franchot Tone got a baleful malevolence into his part as a juryman determined on hanging the defendant, while Robert Cummings was bland and believable as the juror who changes everyone's mind. Among the others, Walter Abel, Edward Arnold, John Beal and Paul Hartman played interesting variations on the theme of guilt or innocence...
Objection Sustained. In Gastonia, N.C., Judge George Patton declared a mistrial when a front-row juror broke into Defense Attorney P. C. Froneberger's loud-voiced arguments to complain: "I don't want you hollering in my face...