Word: juror
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sixth day of deliberations, a Saturday, the members of the jury began getting irritable. The air conditioning was broken in the stifling jury room, and the only smoker in the group started chainsmoking. "We thought about banning him," said Juror Marty Garisek, 33, a bakery deliveryman. That evening, Judge James Turner permitted them their one recreational outing from the Santa Ana Holiday Inn, where they were sequestered under close watch: they went to see the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind...
...intimidation continues. Two weeks ago, another Turin police anti-terrorist specialist, Rosario Berardi, 52, was killed, shot seven times while waiting for a streetcar. A phone call from the Red Brigades promised that a woman juror would be next. Four defense lawyers abruptly resigned, and the trial was postponed again. Would it resume? Yes, declared Turin's mayor, Diego Novelli. "This is the only real answer that democracy can give...
...suit points out that in some ads, the insurers claimed 1 million product liability suits are being brought each year; the Interagency Task Force put the figure at no more than 70,000. At least one jury verdict, in a Milwaukee suit, was thrown out because a juror brought an insurance ad into the jury room. Still, says Douglas Alspaugh, Aetna Life & Casualty advertising director, "when you try to affect people's thinking, you can't help whether they take their awareness into a jury room or a cocktail party...
Mandel received approximately $350,000 in favors from his race-track cronies-including jewelry, clothing, plane tickets and shares in business ventures. During six grueling days of testimony, he insisted that these were merely innocent gifts, but the jurors were not convinced. After their verdict was announced-following an unusually lengthy deliberation of 13 days-jurors said that the vote was initially 9 to 3 against Mandel, became 11 to 1 and stayed there for six days. The lone holdout told newsmen afterward that he believed the parties were innocent as a matter of conscience, if not as a matter...
...juror on the Hustler trial [Feb. 21]. I feel it is important to point out that the rights of a community to decide what is obscene is the law laid down by the Supreme Court. This law applies not only to conservative Cincinnati but also to every community in our nation. No one in Cincinnati has forbidden Larry Flynt to publish Hustler or burned any of his magazines. But while Flynt has a right to publish Hustler magazine, every community also has the right to declare it obscene. This may seem like a paradox, but obscenity, if left unrestricted, will...