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...Having been inside Sing Sing and other penal institutions (as an inspecting grand juror), I advise deliberation in assessing the Attica riot. Commissioner of Correction Russell Oswald made the only possible rational decision. He was facing primitive hysteria, obviously inflamed by subversives. He gave the same order that any field commander facing a public enemy in battle would have given...
...being held and had given the order to "do away with him." The whole prosecution effort was bent on proving that even if Seale had not actually given the order to have Rackley killed, he, as well as Mrs. Huggins, had at least known about it. It failed. Juror Mary Armstrong afterward described the state's case as "very weak, extremely weak...
...eight blacks and four whites argued so heatedly for four hours that they could often be clearly heard through the jury room's "soundproof" walls. "You weren't born in Mississippi. I was. You don't know what you're talking about," shouted one juror. "I've worked in a factory all my life, and I didn't kill anybody," said another. A third voice: "Did you see that cement room in the plant? Working there would have driven anyone crazy." A fourth: "The man needs help. You know...
...black musician, spent 20 minutes answering the court clerk's 156 queries on each specification of the indictment. Judge Murtagh had dismissed all but twelve of the counts against each defendant when he sent the case to the jury. Still, he left the basic prosecution case intact. Afterward, Juror Stephen Chaberski, a graduate student at Columbia University, explained the vote: "The government just did not prove its case...
After the verdict the defendants, their supporters and some of the men and women who had sat in judgment of them gathered for a victory celebration. At the party, Juror Frederick Hills expressed his dismay at the conspiracy statutes frequently invoked to prosecute dissenters and radicals. Said Hills: "It's disgusting-a large lasso to bring in people for so many things." Five of the defendants remained in jail because other charges were pending against them, but the others-with the exception of eight-months-pregnant Afeni Shakur, who was out on bail-were released. Some had been held...