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...also noted a "calmness and ease" during trials because "everybody could see and hear without strain." He liked especially his more direct view of the witness stand ("I can practically take a head-on look") and his eyeline relation to the jury ("The judge can look from one juror to another, and each juror understands that he is being spoken to individually"). So many of Judge Boldt's colleagues are enthusiastic about his new courtroom that the Gen eral Services Administration, which bosses the construction of new Govern ment buildings, is considering adopting the design for future federal district...
...federal trial of Lawyer Roy M. Cohn, charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. Once confident of a hung jury, Cohn paced nervously outside Manhattan's Foley Square Federal Court, fretting that "all bets are off." Then, in a stunning and unpredictable turn of the wheel, one juror's father suddenly died. After excusing her, Judge Archie O. Dawson declared a mistrial. Cohn, for the time being at least, was home free...
...convicting Cohn on at least one count of perjury. "This is a very big disappointment," said the foreman later. "It's like being left at the altar." The anticlimax left ordinary citizens equally disappointed and understandably puzzled. Why did Judge Dawson excuse Mrs. Aribelle Mabrey, the bereaved juror whose father had died? Why not ask to have the funeral delayed a few hours? Conversely, could the trial have continued with eleven jurors? If not, why was there no alternate juror to take Mrs. Mabrey's place? The federal jury system leaves the use of alternate jurors...
...restriction stems from the constitution: a criminal defendant in a federal trial is entitled to twelve jurors-no more, no less. As in the Cohn case, alternates are dismissed when the testimony ends. Says Rule 24-C of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure: "An alternate juror who does not replace a regular juror shall be discharged after the jury retires to consider its verdict." Judge Dawson had every right to excuse Mrs. Mabrey, although, under the circumstances, other judges might have considered a death in the family an insufficient excuse. Mrs. Mabrey had every right to leave, although other...
...agree on a verdict. After that, Justice Department investigators found evidence that Hoffa and a few colleagues had tried corruptly to influence two members of the hung jury. In the case decided last week, Hoffa and a co-defendant were convicted of trying to win over a woman juror by promising to get a promotion for her husband, a member of the Tennessee Highway Patrol. In the second instance, Hoffa and two other co-defendants were found guilty of trying to bribe a man whose father was on the jury...