Word: juror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...federal trial of Lawyer Roy M. Cohn, charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. Once confident of a hung jury, Cohn paced nervously outside Manhattan's Foley Square Federal Court, fretting that "all bets are off." Then, in a stunning and unpredictable turn of the wheel, one juror's father suddenly died. After excusing her, Judge Archie O. Dawson declared a mistrial. Cohn, for the time being at least, was home free...
...convicting Cohn on at least one count of perjury. "This is a very big disappointment," said the foreman later. "It's like being left at the altar." The anticlimax left ordinary citizens equally disappointed and understandably puzzled. Why did Judge Dawson excuse Mrs. Aribelle Mabrey, the bereaved juror whose father had died? Why not ask to have the funeral delayed a few hours? Conversely, could the trial have continued with eleven jurors? If not, why was there no alternate juror to take Mrs. Mabrey's place? The federal jury system leaves the use of alternate jurors...
...Causey, 35, a former Air Force pilot who holds a master's degree in education and now works as an electronics analyst for defense contractor Ling-Temco-Vought, Inc. An enthusiastic hunter and fisherman, red-haired Causey was the first juror accepted by both sides, presently seems to be the jury's leader...
James E. Cunningham, 34, a Cleveland-born electronics engineer for Texas Instruments, Inc., who attracts attention as an especially conscientious juror by the way he sits bolt upright in the jury...
...agree on a verdict. After that, Justice Department investigators found evidence that Hoffa and a few colleagues had tried corruptly to influence two members of the hung jury. In the case decided last week, Hoffa and a co-defendant were convicted of trying to win over a woman juror by promising to get a promotion for her husband, a member of the Tennessee Highway Patrol. In the second instance, Hoffa and two other co-defendants were found guilty of trying to bribe a man whose father was on the jury...