Word: juror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...caught everything: Perry Smith's sudden confession in a police car bearing him from capture in Nevada to trial in Kansas; the look of a wintry prairie sky; the chilling, offhand comments of the prisoners-"It's easy to kill," muses Smith -the juror surprised by spring fever into a yawn so cavernous that "bees could have buzzed...
...Coleman trial, Alabama's Attorney General Richmond Flowers exercised his right to supersede the county prosecutor. As far as he was concerned, his state's jury selection system was as much on trial as was the defendant. Relentlessly, Flowers and an assistant questioned each prospective juror, asking him whether he thought the white race superior to the Negro, whether he felt that any person like Mrs. Liuzzo who associated with Negroes thereby made herself inferior to other whites. Over vehement defense objections, Judge Thagard let Flowers get his answers. In short order, Flowers established that of 30 veniremen...
...decision is not retroactive, in Baltimore alone the wheels of justice were braked for at least 1,476 defendants. Every grand jury in the state faced dismissal; out went every indictment less than 30 days old (including the famous Baltimore assault charge against Atheist Madalyn Murray). Every trial juror now serving may go home, every defendant may get a new trial with new jurors, and every jury conviction open to appeal may be voided...
...point, a juror gave the accused a broad wink. It was a good tipoff. After 1 hr. 29 min. of deliberation, the jury reached its verdict: "Not guilty." Not that anyone had expected differently in "bloody Lowndes," as Negroes call the county. Nonetheless, Attorney General Flowers, a courageous, outspoken antisegregationist whose own life was threatened during the trial, denounced the verdict as an outrage. Said he: "Now those who feel they have a license to kill, maim and destroy have been issued that license...
Italy calls jurors "people's judges," theoretically gives them equal status in criminal trials with the two judges. Requirements include "good moral standing," a secondary school education and ages between 30 and 65. Eligible citizens are listed (32,000 in Rome), screened by mayors, magistrates and judges, finally picked by lot. Unfortunately, the screening fails to match the requirements. As the Bebawi trial neared its end, one woman juror turned out to be over 65, another had less than secondary schooling, and a third (a highly educated countess) had gone to a private school not recognized by the state...