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...pivotal effort in any civil suit is to enlist the sympathy of jurors, to make them want to help. One prospective juror was excused last week when she said, in response to questioning, that she would have trouble being objective because "the sin of hypocrisy is worse than adultery." By that standard, both sides in this trial might be in trouble...
...subtle and damaging effect on the trial itself. Witnesses may be more reluctant to testify, for example, if they know they will be seen on the nightly news by their neighbors. Seth Waxman, a Washington attorney who represented a white- collar defendant in one televised trial, says that jurors afterward made it clear that TV had had an impact; one juror said a witness seemed less credible because she kept nervously glancing at the camera. Argues Waxman: "Any extraneous factor that complicates the fact-finding process ought not to be allowed...
...Peter Matthiessen claimed that their panel did not want the full award to go to Ishmael -- described as "a series of philosophical conversations between a man and a great ape" -- and charged the Turner organization with misrepresenting their position in its publicity releases. Not so, said Ray Bradbury, another juror, who defended Ishmael and ragged his colleagues: "I think Styron and Matthiessen are literary snobs...
...Justice on cases involving criminal procedure. Speaking for himself and Justices Harry Blackmun, Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens, White took the unusual step of reading aloud his own strongly worded opinion from the bench. Confessions are different from other kinds of evidence, White reasoned. Their impact upon a juror's thinking is too powerful...
During 15 days of deliberation, the jury had leaned toward acquittal on seven of the eight counts against Buckey. It was split evenly on the last one. "We got more hung ((rather)) than less hung," said jury foreman Richard Dunham. Most of the jurors said they believed some of the children had been molested, but from the evidence presented they could not tell who had done it. "There were too many gaping holes, and too much time had passed," said juror Michael Carapella. Jurors also expressed doubts about videotaped interviews used as evidence in which therapists and social workers encouraged...