Word: juror
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last April a Negro juror in circuit court told the judge something new about Osborne's way with juries. She had been approached by the courthouse janitor, a Negro named Matt Jones, who asked her to cast her ballot for Al Osborne's client in a damage suit. Fixer Jones, a thin, melancholy man with the air of a church deacon, was hauled into court for contempt, acknowledged that Osborne had asked him to see if he could get any Negroes on the jury to "help out"on the case...
Party Line. In Jersey City, a prospective juror answered the question, "Is there any reason, physical or otherwise, why you should not serve as a juror?" with the reply: "Yes, I belong to the Republican Club...
...Criminal. But the jurors (seven of whom were women) listened to the arguments on both sides almost as if they were all beside the point. After only two hours and 21 minutes in deliberation last week, the jurors found Gehr not guilty. The real criminal: New York's divorce laws. Said one indignant juror: "Mrs. Andrea Gehr was a martyr to this antiquated law which places evidence-gathering in the hands of professional snoopers, and in this case led to a dreadful tragedy...
...Court has ruled against the contention of the Communist Eugene Dennis that the jury which convicted him of contempt of Congress could not be impartial because it included Government employees. Yet not long before it had found that a Government worker is not an impartial juror in a case involving the dope trade! It's unfair to the Court majority to assume it is ignorant of the terror of the left which is instilled in Government workers by the continuing "loyalty" purges. The only interpretation that can be put on the decision in the Dennis case is that the Justices...
...Mercy killing is an act similar to ..." murder," argued County Solicitor William H. Craig. "In other words," his colleague, State's Attorney General William L. Phinney, added, "simply because the adjective 'mercy' is inserted before 'killing' does not alter the situation. If a prospective juror took the witness stand and said, 'I have a prejudice and opinion against killing,' certainly that is not in and of itself a basis for disqualification." Judge and lawyers questioned Mrs. English further. "You say you do have some prejudice in your mind against the defendant...