Word: juror
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Washington Correspondent Evan Thomas found that his own background in law was a definite asset when interviewing lawyers and jurors in the capital. Thomas, who got his law degree from the University of Virginia and wrote TIME's Law section from 1978 to 1979, was struck as he observed a local murder trial by "how emotionally racking jury duty can be for those who serve. One woman juror on the case burst into tears when it was all over." Correspondent Jay Branegan, who logged four years as a court reporter in Illinois before joining TIME in June, visited those...
...judge, waiting for the lawyers, waiting to be called. It's not amusing or fun; it's just a duty," says Gwen Pritchard, a Washington lobbyist, standing in the hallway of the District of Columbia courthouse. "It's 300 people doing nothing," says another would-be juror, Libby Gallagher, as she watches her neighbors playing cards, knitting, staring into space...
...nurse after a Boston party last year. The sentences sparked controversy, the doctors contending in a tearful courtroom scene that their lives had already been destroyed, and many critics protesting that the terms were too light. The doctors--no longer employed by the University--are appealing, and one juror held a bizarre news conference a few weeks after the verdict to recant her vote. One of the doctors, Hussain, has since pled innocent to two additional counts of rape...
Lawyers for the defendants in the case, however, said yesterday that the juror's statement will probably have little effect either on overturning the verdict on appeal or reopening the case, but may serve to bolster the public image of the doctors...
...handful of newspapers that besiege the Pulitzer committee with many entries. Mindful of the promotional prestige of the prizes, some papers make such elaborately bound presentations that Richard T. Baker, secretary of the Pulitzer board, once hired football players to lift the entries from one juror to another. Cooke's story was entered for local news reporting. In the features category, the Post recommended four others, including one by Sally Quinn (Mrs. Ben Bradlee), who only a little more than a year ago wrote a story so full of inaccurate sexual innuendoes about National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski that...