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...number of New York State legal experts said Merola and his assistant Bookin simply failed to substantiate their charges. Says Columbia University Law Professor Gerard Lynch: "The general feeling is that this is one of the dullest, longest and least persuasive presentations ever made." Joy Fennel, a juror who says she once leaned toward conviction, agrees: "I was frustrated the D.A. didn't do a better job." Several jurors also indicated sympathy with a defense contention that Merola, a Democrat, brought the charges just before the 1984 election in a politically motivated attempt to embarrass the Reagan Administration. Countered Merola...
...zealously defend their clients, forbids degrading courtroom accusations only if they are also irrelevant. Formal discipline by the bar for violations is apparently rare. In essence, the dividing line between zealousness and callousness is left to a lawyer's discretion -- and his sense that such tactics might backfire, creating juror hostility toward his client...
...Central America. To bolster the cause, Defense Attorney Leonard Weinglass, one of Hoffman's lawyers in the 1969 Chicago Seven trial, got testimony from former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and onetime Contra Leader Edgar Chamorro. "These young people are doing perhaps what most of us should be doing," Juror Anne Gaffney, 64, said afterward...
...jurors range in age from mid-20s to early 70s. Old friends by now, they celebrate each anniversary of the Kemner trial with a birthday cake. Two years ago, on Judge Goldenhersh's 40th birthday, they presented him with a silver plaque inscribed with their names and juror numbers...
...Monsanto is hardly responsible for all trial delays. A month-long recess was forced in 1985, when one juror underwent an appendectomy and hysterectomy. For his part, the judge has officiated at the marriage of a juror's child and twice juggled the trial vacation to accommodate juror honeymoons. "This court cannot stand in the way of love," he states. Or of birth, for that matter. He declared a day off when one juror's mare dropped a foal...