Word: juror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Largely as a result of what Partin reported that Hoffa had said about his juror-buying efforts back in 1962, the Chattanooga jury convicted Hoffa and three aides. Thus the Supreme Court faced a key question: Did the Government so violate Hoffa's constitutional rights by planting a spy in his "quarters and councils" that Partin's evidence should have been suppressed...
...rigged a small film projector and mirror arrangement to the right of the cab, which beamed the movie onto the truck's frosted windshield. Watching it, one housewife confided: "That's the way my husband drives." Chuckled a young executive: "I go through that every night." Juror Martin Friedman, director of Minneapolis' Walker Art Center, put it another way: "I found it very moving. Actually," he said, "by treating the man almost as a ghost, as a calcified figure, Segal presents you with reality, then questions the existence of reality." The driver? A neighboring chicken farmer, Leon...
...cases tried before them, the 550 judges involved in the study very often believed they were able to spot what moved the jury, without necessarily yielding to it themselves. In a case where an obviously guilty defendant, tried without counsel, was acquitted, the judge reported that a juror told him: "Until the state provides a public defender, I will let everyone go free." Statistically, the judges thought that only 2% of the cases tried were "very difficult" for juries to handle; only 9% of the verdicts seemed to them "without merit." The most lenient juries for serious crimes are found...
...desegregation of schools and other public facilities without waiting, as he must now, to receive a formal complaint. The measure would also institute procedures for eliminating racial discrimination in federal juries, and would empower federal and state courts to halt trials in state courts where there is evidence of juror discrimination...
...that Edward Partin, a longtime crony of Hoffa who acted as a part-time guard at his hotel during the Nashville trial, had been released from jail in Louisiana to spy on Hoffa for the Government. Partin's courtroom testimony that Hoffa had bragged about bribing a Nashville juror, the Teamster boss claimed, was based in effect on "unreasonable search and seizure" and violated the privacy of his deliberations with his lawyer...