Word: juror
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World War II or any of its horrors. Declared one woman: "I've heard of Nazis, but I don't listen to the news that much." Another said that she knew Nazism "was a dictatorship," but she "really couldn't say more about it." Still another juror figured that "Nazi means Communist...
...jurors, by their own accounts, tried hard to understand but kept colliding with Patty's own words and actions. Her performance on the stand affected them most. "I really believed her, even when she took the Fifth Amendment," said one juror. But the evidence patiently brought out by Prosecutor James L. Browning Jr. led them to believe that Patty was lying, despite the efforts of Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey and his staff. There was the photograph of Patty on the day of her arrest, defiantly flashing the clenched fist signal of the revolutionary. There was the testimony...
Finally, there was the Olmec monkey trinket that the prosecution said had been given to her by S.L.A. Member Willie Wolfe. It was found in her purse when she was arrested-a fact that led jurors to wonder about her claim that Wolfe had raped her and that she could not stand him. "I believe she really did love Willie Wolfe," said a woman juror...
...jury followed that exchange intently. Not only were there seven women in the box, but the number of children per juror averaged 3.5-a fact that had pleased Bailey. He assumed that such a jury would be sympathetic to the plight of a girl who was 19 when she was seized...
...Revolt Against Rape" [Oct. 13] was an interesting article; but, as a male-chauvinistic-pig district attorney, I have found that men are far more sympathetic than women to the victims in rape prosecutions. The woman juror thinks "I wouldn't do that," and the man juror thinks the same thing...