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...Midnight Raymond Chandler-appear in our current issue's "Spring Cleaning" feature. In recent weeks she has also reviewed The Friends of Eddie Coyle, by George V. Higgins, and All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers, by Larry McMurtry. For her work as a book-award juror, Duffy read nearly 50 novels during the past six months. For her job as a reviewer, she usually skims dozens of volumes each week before she, Editor Timothy Foote and Reviewer R.Z. Sheppard pick which books will be reviewed. Then comes the close, serious reading necessary for writing perceptive and usually...
Afterward, Juror Lawrence Evans, a supermarket owner, claimed that he was one of only two jury members who held out for a conviction. Asked if some jurors were influenced by the religious calling of the defendants, he said: "Yes. Some felt they could do no wrong. They were really prejudiced." Juror Vera Thompson, a Carlisle, Pa., stock clerk, allowed that Boyd Douglas, the Government's star witness, was "the reason you had a hung jury." She explained that several jurors simply did not believe Informer Douglas, the ex-convict who shuttled the Berrigan-McAlister letters...
Gerald Hawes, an HEW employee who was serving as a grand juror in California's Marin County, recently resigned in disgust at such jury docility. Hawes was on the panel investigating George Jackson's killing in San Quentin, and for background he had read the transcript of the Angela Davis grand jury hearing. Not a single question was asked by a juror in that case, Hawes reports, and in the Jackson case, he says, the prosecutor specifically urged the jurors to ask no questions. Several grand jurors in the Ted Kennedy Chappaquiddick case also reported feeling frustrated; they...
...judicial conference two weeks ago were favorably impressed, though they doubted that the technique could soon be extended to criminal cases. One reason: a defendant's right to confront his accusers. There were a few minor problems for civil cases too. Conditioned to breaks and commercials, the jurors found the nonstop viewing taxing; next time, said Judge McCrystal, he would order a five-minute recess every half-hour. McCrystal also suggested that to reduce monotony, witnesses should be taped "on location," in their offices, at the accident site, in the hospital. All in all, though, said one juror...
...order, Edwin W. Jones, Common Pleas Court Judge, declared that picketing, parading, leafletting, demonstrating, passing our handbills, use of a sound truck or bullhorn...with the intent of interesting with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness or court officer, is hereby prohibited...