Word: juror
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would further encourage persons engaged in criminal activity to set aside a nest egg for the rainy day they are caught and brought to justice." In a Boston Globe you-play-the-judge poll, readers voted more than 3 to 1 to send Krutschewski to jail. But a juror who convicted him, Rachel Holmes, was sympathetic: "It would be wonderful if he could serve the community...
When a fire caused $185,000 damage to Sternlofs Timberridge Institute in 1979, Patton asked a grand jury to investigate. A juror told TIME: "They said Barkouras was the Jim Jones of the Oklahoma City jet set. I never really knew what they were trying to get him on. Our grand jury was on a kind of witch hunt...
Robert Williams, another juror, said the jury did not believe any group had the right "to thrust its political beliefs on the citizens of the United States...
...jurors were unmoved by Jenrette's testimony that he had been unfairly trapped. Said Juror Yvonne Bothnel: "We just did not see any place where he got his arm twisted." Nor were they swayed by the claim of the defendant that he is an alcoholic and had been too drunk when meeting with the undercover agents to know what he was doing. When sentenced, Jenrette could receive as much as 35 years in prison...
...wanted to cast a judge, you would never cast him." But you might very well cast Balsam, who will portray the Watergate justice in a TV-movie based on John Sirica's 1979 memoir To Set the Record Straight. After judiciously reviewing Balsam's credentials-as a juror in 12 Angry Men (1957) and a Washington Post editor in All the President's Men (1976)-and meeting in his chambers with the actor, Maximum John, 76, ruled him "a very good selection, in my opinion." The film, says Sirica, will reveal "why I made the decisions...