Word: juror
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...juror told reporters that "we all agreed the abortion was perfectly legal. It was negligence. I don't think he did a thorough job examining the fetus for signs of life once it was removed." What that juror was saying was that Edelin was convicted on the bare possibility that a legal victim of manslaughter--a living human being--existed after what McGuire ruled was a legal abortion. The law requires a reasonable certainty...
...saddest aspects of this case is that the jurors responded in kind. Perhaps perplexed by the weights and cerebral evidence in Edelin's defense, this collection of white, mostly Catholic Bostonians accepted Flanagan's graphic if inaccurate portrait of the "victim," statements from the jurors have indicated. Not even the three days of jury selection that preceded this trial could eliminate anti-abortion sentiment from the panel. Another parochial sensibility was apparently active in their considerations. Even if Edelin is no killer, he is black. One juror quoted another as saying. "That nigger is guilty as sin." Apparently, some...
When question number 16 comes, the attorneys lean forward, the gallery stirs, and the reporters pick up their pens. And then Judge James P. McGuire leans back in his chair, turns toward the prospective juror, and asks, "Do you have an opinion as to whether or not all abortions are wrong...
...rhythmic interjection of such confessed conspirators as John Dean, Jeb Stuart Magruder, Herbert Kalmbach and Fred LaRue giving their versions of cover-up activities, and the playing of tapes that verified their testimony was overwhelmingly effective. The most promising hope for the defense seems to be that one juror might conceivably hold out and produce a hung jury, which could result in a new trial...
...factness toward rape that is most terrifying, and is the same attitude that women who have been raped later encounter in the law process. The offhand comment the rapist makes to one women hitchhiker--"It's all part of the fun of hitchhiking"-- finds its counterpart in the California juror who last week dismissed entirely Inez Garcia's outrage and fear and disgust at her alleged rapist: "He was just trying to show her a good time, that...