Word: juror
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...weeks ago, Gayle Daniels, the only black juror on the 1984 sentencing panel, swore in an affidavit that she did not vote for execution because she "did not believe ((Hance)) knew what he was doing at the time of his crimes." Daniels recounted how jurors initially favored a life sentence. But mindful of the prosecutor's warning that Hance could be paroled in just a few years, they sent notes to the judge asking what a "life sentence" meant. The judge never responded. After that, several jurors began pushing for death. When Daniels held out, the remaining jurors, impatient...
...account has been corroborated by another juror, Patricia LeMay. In an affidavit, LeMay, who is white, also charged that racism played a large part in the deliberations. According to LeMay, comments by other jurors included "the nigger admitted he did it" and "he should...
...account of the author's experiences in China. Now Salzman brings East and West together in The Soloist (Random House; 184 pages; $19), a novel that counterpoints Occidental self-consciousness against Oriental ego transcendence. The dissonance is played out at a murder trial where Reinhart is a juror. There is no doubt that the young man in the dock has killed his Zen instructor. He says he beat him to death after hearing a parable that equated freedom with the killing of authority figures. The question is whether or not the accused is sane...
...used as a basis for an appeal. "In plain English," says O'Brien, "if your court-appointed lawyer screws up, too bad." Then, in 1992, the court issued a ruling that struck down the "probable innocence" standard and raised one in which lawyers had to prove that "no reasonable juror would have found the ((prisoner)) eligible for the death penalty." Finally, in January 1993, the court ruled that a prisoner may be executed without a hearing unless the new evidence of innocence is virtually airtight. At that time, Justice Rehnquist wrote "of the very disruptive effect that entertaining claims...
...JURORS ARE ONLY HUMAN. This was the question that had Los Angeles in an uproar. In a community exhausted by 2 1/2 years of strife since Rodney King's arrest, jurors reached their conclusions under the influence of a number of forces inside and outside the courtroom. Were they scared? Were they moved by a desire to bring events to a close by meting out a punishment for Denny's attackers comparable to the one for King's? A day after the trial ended, one juror denied that anxiety about the potential aftermath of their decision influenced the verdict...