Word: juror
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McGonigle escaped four more serious counts of extortion, however, when one juror held out against further conviction...
...that from a man who supports the institution of juries, which are, after all, a group of ordinary citizens who sacrifice their time, comfort and sometimes income. It's not the jurors who are the problem, says Adler, but the ordeal they are subjected to. First, the most competent citizens are permitted to escape the jury pool. The pool is whittled down further by peremptory challenges, which allow lawyers to strike a potential juror from the panel without giving reasons. The lawyers have reasons, of course, often based on stereotypes of race, gender, age or income that lead them...
...create a larger pool of qualified jurors, Adler also argues that legislatures should eliminate most automatic exemptions for such professions as doctors and clergy, which allow some of the best educated members of the community to escape service. The disadvantages of a narrow jury pool that has been worked upon by lawyers determined to seat the least qualified members is evident from Adler's account of the trial of Imelda Marcos, the wife of deposed Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos. In 1990 she faced charges in a New York City court of transferring Philippine government money to American banks to finance...
...penalty decision in the Simpson case but asserting that the decision had been made "independent of this concern." Yet that bland avowal, combined with a stated intention to comment no further until after the trial, invited immediate speculation that public concern -- or, more specifically, the concern of one potential juror who might create a hung jury -- was indeed Garcetti's paramount consideration. "I'm not suprised," says Wendy Alderson, a prominent Palm Springs jury consultant. "I don't think they would have found 12 people to put Simpson to death." Adds Laurie Levenson, professor of law at Loyola Marymount University...
...district attorney's office as a defense coup. "Johnnie Cochran is a better trial lawyer than the entire defense team put together," asserts one prosecution source. "Now add the race card. With Cochran in, you're going to have a hell of a time trying to find a black juror who will convict. All you need is a holdout...