Word: juror
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...headline reading MANSON GUILTY, NIXON DECLARES, Judge Charles Older went to great lengths to ensure that the jury, which has been sequestered since the trial began, would not learn of Nixon's remarks. The windows of the jury bus were whited over with Bon Ami so that no juror could glimpse the headline on street newsstands. If the jury discovered Nixon's verdict, the defense might have grounds for a mistrial. His efforts were to no avail. Next day Manson himself displayed a copy of the Times to the jury for some ten seconds before a bailiff grabbed...
...dominated by Manson, precluded an attempt to get a favorable jury; Manson had decided that this was impossible, so less than one-fifth of the defense challenges were used. As a result, the jury includes both a former deputy sheriff and a private security guard, as well as a juror who admits he believes Manson is guilty. But the defense is expected to attack the credibility and competence of Mrs. Kasabian with evidence that-though Bugliosi described her as a relative neophyte in the Manson family-she had taken 300 LSD trips...
...doubts remain. Several grand jurors believed that Kennedy should have been brought before a court to answer for events that they still find inadequately explained. Many were disappointed at their inability to return an indictment against him. "Most of us felt Kennedy was morally responsible for the death of that girl," said one woman juror, ignoring Paquet's warning about sealed lips. Said a male juror: "I don't believe this will ever be resolved as far as some people are concerned...
Racial discrimination in the jury box has grown far more subtle since the 1870s, when many state laws openly barred blacks as jurors. The Supreme Court has consistently struck down unfair statutes and practices. But the court has insisted only that black defendants have a right to a fair chance that blacks be on the jury, and the right is seldom fulfilled in practice: most juries are permitted to remain white. In the 1965 case of Swain v. Alabama, for example, the court upheld the conviction of a black rape suspect, even though peremptory challenges had excluded all blacks from...
...defendants were indicted under was unconstitutional." That is a question for an appeals court, she explained to them, not for the jury. "So we agreed we should not be a hung jury. We decided to compromise, and it was just a question of how to compromise." Said another juror, Mrs. Ruth Petersen, 44, who favored conviction on both counts for all and admitted that there was not one of the defendants she really liked: "Half a chicken is better than none at all. We were all anxious to go home." Jurors are often moved by just such sentiments, but they...