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...judge?s decision does not, however, appear to have upset the jury. Juror Stephen Colwell said he felt "greatly relieved" when the verdict was reduced to manslaughter ? a choice he and his 11 colleagues were never given. And most Americans, it seems, agree. According to an ABC News survey ? the first post-trial poll ? 56 percent felt manslaughter was the correct verdict, with only 35 percent opposed...
...With the character of Kaczynski's peers so crucial to his case, selection will be contentious. Each side has 20 chances to reject a juror without argument -- choosing 12 and 6 alternates will probably take several weeks. "Anyone who is overly sympathetic, or who refuses to vote the death penalty, will be left off," Jackson says. "This jury will be death-penalty qualified...
...last two months, he's even managed to balance the dual responsibilities of governor and defendent in a federal trial. Now, with the luck of the devil, he will survive in the statehouse for at least a few more days. U.S. District Judge Roger Strand added an alternate juror today, forcing the Republican Governor's trial to start all over again. The new juror replaces Mary Jane Cotey, who told the Arizona Republic that jurors were bargaining over votes. If jurors were vote-trading, which is not allowed, Symington could be the beneficiary of a mistrial. "If he is acquitted...
...YORK: The trial of Ramzi Yousef is off to a slow start. After postponing opening statements until Tuesday after a juror called in sick, U.S. District Judge Kevin Duffy dismissed another juror following a quiz session to determine whether jurors were prejudiced by last week's Brooklyn arrests. Duffy did not give a reason for dropping the juror but said it wasn't related to last week's events. Tensions over the hometown trial increased some more after a bomb scare Monday at the World Trade Center, which forced the evacuation of several hundred people. It turned out that...
...photocopy from the dictionary with the definition of clitoris. Best reported the incident to her boss. The brewery fired Mackenzie for "unacceptable managerial performance." The defendants' lawyers argued that the incident echoed an earlier harassment charge, but they were outlawyered by MacKenzie's ebullient advocate, Gerald Boyle. Juror Clint Baer, 20, says none of the jurors, 10 of whom were women, were offended by the Seinfeld story. They agreed to an award that, as Baer says, "sends the message that sexual harassment has to be more important" than what happened to Best...