Word: juror
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...held no such sway over the jury. The seven men and five women deliberated for more than 37 hours but needed only one vote to reach a verdict. Said Juror Constance F. Jenrette, a laid-off factory worker: "Everything just fit together all of a sudden." They apparently were persuaded by the prosecution argument that Von Bülow wanted to kill Sunny so he could marry another woman, New York Socialite Alexandra Isles, 36, without losing his share of his wife's $75 million fortune. In 1979 and again in 1980, Sunny lapsed into comas, the second irreversible...
...Fusco as an all ECAC defenseman, but yesterday the redheaded sophomore earned a more important distinction. After hours of deliberation, Fusco was named as a defenseman on our all-Irish squad. The deliberation was to decide whether he belonged on the Irish or the Italian team, and frankly, this juror was swayed by the testimony of Mrs. Fusco, the former Joanne Mahoney, Congratulation, Mark...
...weeks later, a second juror released a statement saying that the jurors did not understand the legal definition of rape and based their decision on the belief that the doctors had not actually committed rape but had done something wrong for which they should be punished...
...Roberts (on stage 1948-51, on screen 1955) he could still show surprise that the men of the U.S.S. Reluctant would confer so much moral authority on him. But from then on the Fonda character was at ease with his place in American history, whether as a lone righteous juror in 12 Angry Men, or as any number of military men, government officials?and desperadoes...
...potential juror should accept his call for service only on a voluntary basis. Telling someone he has to serve under threat of penalty, and with disregard for hardship or loss of income, is not the best way to pick fair-minded jurors...