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...point, a juror gave the accused a broad wink. It was a good tipoff. After 1 hr. 29 min. of deliberation, the jury reached its verdict: "Not guilty." Not that anyone had expected differently in "bloody Lowndes," as Negroes call the county. Nonetheless, Attorney General Flowers, a courageous, outspoken antisegregationist whose own life was threatened during the trial, denounced the verdict as an outrage. Said he: "Now those who feel they have a license to kill, maim and destroy have been issued that license...
Italy calls jurors "people's judges," theoretically gives them equal status in criminal trials with the two judges. Requirements include "good moral standing," a secondary school education and ages between 30 and 65. Eligible citizens are listed (32,000 in Rome), screened by mayors, magistrates and judges, finally picked by lot. Unfortunately, the screening fails to match the requirements. As the Bebawi trial neared its end, one woman juror turned out to be over 65, another had less than secondary schooling, and a third (a highly educated countess) had gone to a private school not recognized by the state...
...committee found a bone in its throat. "1964 was not a vintage year for broadcasting," blurted Peabody Juror Paul Porter, onetime Federal Communications Commission chairman. It was, he continued, "a year when the intelligent adult television audience has been consistently shortchanged by networks wooing teen-agers." In sum, a year of so much "dreary sameness and steady conformity" that "some of the Peabody judges were tempted to take a sabbatical and not make any awards...
...criminal trials a year in Bexar County (San Antonio), only half a dozen attract enough spectators to make judges even aware of their presence. Another 15 or so attract from two to eight people. As Judge Brown sees it, empty courtrooms adversely affect jurors. Concluding that no one cares, "a juror may be tempted to lay on a heavy sentence." Conversely, "he may decide that no one thinks the crime is serious and then assess a light sentence." Judge Brown is troubled: "When a man's liberty or life is at stake in my court, I like to think...
Cohn's acquittal may be cited by some lawyers to show why prosecutors mortally fear mistrials. After the first courtroom conflict last April, the jury was on the verge of convicting Cohn when the father of one of the jurors suddenly died. The judge excused the juror; as a result, the trial turned into a mistrial (TIME...