Word: juror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Four years later, when Clarence Darrow was accused of bribing a juror, it was Rogers he asked to defend him. Even Rogers' enemies conceded that his defense was brilliant. Adela pictures Darrow sitting morosely in court, Rogers doing his best to pep him up. Long before the trial was over, writes Adela, Darrow was assured of acquittal; but he almost convicted himself by making a two-day speech to the jury. Darrow wept so much that his sleeves looked as if they had been "plunged into a rain barrel." Obviously piqued that Darrow's reputation outshines daddy...
...first day of the trial, a juror admitted to the judge that the mere mention of blood made him ill. Since the case before the court involved a brutal gunshot murder, he was hastily excused. After 21 trial days and 70 witnesses later, the remaining eleven jurors brought in their verdict, ending the longest-and one of the most spectacular-murder trials in British legal history. Found guilty and sentenced to hang next week for the murder of Michael Gregsten last summer was James Hanratty, 25, a petty criminal and mental defective...
...Judge Joseph A. Sarafite. After filing into the jury room, they split wide open. Without once mentioning Jack's race (a sort of racism in reverse peculiar to hypersensitive Manhattan), they wrangled bitterly for almost 19 hours, finally deadlocked on all charges. "It was chaos," said one weary juror. "All we heard were pleas of sympathy for Jack." One of four pro-Jack jurors assured Jack's wife: "I fought like a tiger for him." Said the foreman and only Negro: "I feel that a hung jury is a vindication for Jack...
Reaching a Verdict. In Winston-Salem, N.C., a woman juror stalked out of the jury room, snatched her scarf and handbag, told Judge Robert Gambrill: "There was so much talking, fussing and carrying on that I've had all I want of it." Scratching the Surface. In Minneapolis, Municipal Judge Tom Bergin and Patrolman Robert Lyons collided in their cars on their way to a police school on traffic safety...