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...Causey, 35, a former Air Force pilot who holds a master's degree in education and now works as an electronics analyst for defense contractor Ling-Temco-Vought, Inc. An enthusiastic hunter and fisherman, red-haired Causey was the first juror accepted by both sides, presently seems to be the jury's leader...
James E. Cunningham, 34, a Cleveland-born electronics engineer for Texas Instruments, Inc., who attracts attention as an especially conscientious juror by the way he sits bolt upright in the jury...
State criminal codes and common law spell out a variety of reasons for which a prospective juror may be disqualified by the judge for prejudicial cause-actually witnessing the crime, opposing the death sentence in a capital case, or simply admitting bias against either side...
Along with this basic safeguard, the law has been steadily liberalized to grant both defense and prosecution the right to eliminate a juror if they merely suspect, but cannot prove, he harbors a prejudice. Such peremptory challenges are strictly limited, and their number varies from state to state. In federal courts they range from three for each side in civil cases to 20 in a capital case. Conscientious lawyers exercise their right to disqualify a juror with the precision of a surgeon, the intuition of an actor, the guesswork of a tea-leaf reader. Professor Harry Kalven Jr., director...
Inevitable Liars. Experienced lawyers have arcane theories about choosing and challenging a juror. Clarence Darrow believed that Negroes, Jews, Irish and Mediterranean peoples make sympathetic jurors for the defense.* He warned against choosing Prohibitionists, Northern Europeans, Presbyterians and Baptists, but suggested dropping all guidelines in the case of the man who laughs. "A juror who laughs hates to find anyone guilty," he said. Pierre Howard, an Atlanta defense attorney, has kept a card file on jurors for 29 years. Butchers and barbers, he says, make bloodthirsty jurors. In a robbery case, he would challenge a filling-station attendant...