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...insisted that he had been in Hoffa's confidence at the time of that trial. Hoffa, he said, had asked him to come to Nashville, told him "there might be some people he wanted me to talk to. He said that they were going to get to one juror and try to get to a few scattered jurors and take their chances." Partin quoted Hoffa as saying "I've got $15,000 or $20,000 to get to the jury." When he decided to leave Nashville temporarily, Partin said, Hoffa "told me when I came back he might...
...Impartial. The assumption that a juror's personal knowledge of the case would ensure justice was questionable from the start, and the notion spread that if a juror had information about the crime, he ought to serve as a witness instead. By the 18th century, the practice of disqualifying such jurors was generally accepted, and in its brand-new Constitution, the fledgling U.S. Republic guaranteed defendants the right to trial by an impartial jury of their peers...
That seemed almost an invitation to Melvin Belli. Said he: "We are going to do everything this side of insulting a prospective juror in order to determine if they do or do not have a conscious or unconscious prejudice...
...absentmindedly as he addressed the jury, but made no reference to it. Finally, he unwrapped the package slowly as the jury watched in horrified fascination. If the artificial leg he revealed was an anticlimax, Belli immediately rebuilt the tension: he dropped the limb into the lap of a shocked juror and proceeded to spell out exactly how it would feel to wear the contraption for a lifetime. The award to his client...
...each person's location precisely on the photo, to prove that the fire siren must have been audible in the cab of the truck. Then he diagramed the positions of other witnesses, who testified to the truck's excessive speed. In the end, only the most unimaginative juror had not relived several times over the traumatic crunch that Belli contended sent his client into a mental institution. The award...