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Roger Keith Coleman's case is filled with the kinds of errors that make federal review so vital. There is an allegation that Coleman's trial may have been tainted by a biased juror; that his lawyers made some major blunders; that another man may have committed the crime. But tidy procedural obstacles have blocked Coleman's attempts to obtain a federal evidentiary hearing. With the clock ticking toward his execution, it is reasonable to ask: Just what does it take to get a reconsideration of a conviction that brings a sentence of death...
...Another juror said she had her doubts about the officers' innocence but was stymied by the precise terms of the instructions to the jury. "I believe there was excessive use of force, but under the law as it was explained to us we had to identify specific 'hits' that would show specific use of force. It had to be beyond a reasonable doubt, and I just couldn't do that...
...Gotti's success with juries in the past, Gravano suggested that there may have been more to it than luck. The Bull claims to have personally handled a $60,000 bribe for one of the jurors who acquitted Gotti in 1987. The juror was charged last month with obstruction of justice in the alleged bribe-taking incident. At the present trial, jurors are identified only by number and are sequestered in an undisclosed location guarded by federal marshals. Even so, Judge I. Leo Glasser replaced two of them last week with alternates after they asked to be excused...
Strossen stressed the ACLU's traditional defense of freedom of speech and referred to a remark of one juror in the widely-publicized Florida trial of the rap group 2 Live Crew. "Take away one freedom, and soon they are all gone," she quoted...
...Tyson's bodyguard -- to Fuller's loud, agitated summation. "They should not have let Tyson testify at the grand jury," Simels argues. "Then they compounded it by allowing Mike to come up with a different story during the trial." Tyson appeared to be lying, and lying stupidly, fulfilling any juror's suspicions about the boxer's brutality. Notes Garrison: "You couldn't look at this delicate little thing and imagine her having Mike Tyson say, 'Hey, I want to f--- you,' and her saying, 'Sure, call me.' You just said, 'Aw, come...