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...desegregation of schools and other public facilities without waiting, as he must now, to receive a formal complaint. The measure would also institute procedures for eliminating racial discrimination in federal juries, and would empower federal and state courts to halt trials in state courts where there is evidence of juror discrimination...
...that Edward Partin, a longtime crony of Hoffa who acted as a part-time guard at his hotel during the Nashville trial, had been released from jail in Louisiana to spy on Hoffa for the Government. Partin's courtroom testimony that Hoffa had bragged about bribing a Nashville juror, the Teamster boss claimed, was based in effect on "unreasonable search and seizure" and violated the privacy of his deliberations with his lawyer...
...caught everything: Perry Smith's sudden confession in a police car bearing him from capture in Nevada to trial in Kansas; the look of a wintry prairie sky; the chilling, offhand comments of the prisoners-"It's easy to kill," muses Smith -the juror surprised by spring fever into a yawn so cavernous that "bees could have buzzed...
...Coleman trial, Alabama's Attorney General Richmond Flowers exercised his right to supersede the county prosecutor. As far as he was concerned, his state's jury selection system was as much on trial as was the defendant. Relentlessly, Flowers and an assistant questioned each prospective juror, asking him whether he thought the white race superior to the Negro, whether he felt that any person like Mrs. Liuzzo who associated with Negroes thereby made herself inferior to other whites. Over vehement defense objections, Judge Thagard let Flowers get his answers. In short order, Flowers established that of 30 veniremen...
...decision is not retroactive, in Baltimore alone the wheels of justice were braked for at least 1,476 defendants. Every grand jury in the state faced dismissal; out went every indictment less than 30 days old (including the famous Baltimore assault charge against Atheist Madalyn Murray). Every trial juror now serving may go home, every defendant may get a new trial with new jurors, and every jury conviction open to appeal may be voided...