Word: jurors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wouldn't you want to be the kind of juror who'd be prepared to weigh all the evidence before making up his mind...
...reporters were forbidden to carry or use any kind of camera, tape recorder or other electronic equipment in the courthouse: to make courtroom sketches of anyone involved in the trial: to leave or enter the courtroom while the trial was in session: or to publish the names of any juror, whether empaneled or excused, until after the verdict. Witnesses, jurors, lawyers and anyone else officially connected with the trial were barred from giving out-of-court statements, and court stenographers were prohibited from making a copy of the record available to anyone but the prosecuting and defense attorneys. Finally, only...
...prospective juror, when asked if he had read or seen anything related to the trial, said, "Well, I've read some articles about the defendant's counsel...
...wouldn't blame the defendant for his counsel?" Moynihan asked the prospective juror, drawing more laughs out of the crowd...
...that, Warren approved the use of informers in two related cases. Hoffa Lawyer Z. T. Osborn Jr. was appealing his own conviction (3½ years) for trying to slip $10,000 to one of Hoffa's Chattanooga jurors. In Osborn's case, the informer was Policeman Robert Vick, who had originally been hired by Osborn to investigate Hoffa's Nashville jurors, and who was later asked by Osborn to help bribe a prospective juror. By then, Vick had switched sides, and with approval of two judges, the feds had armed him with a tape recorder into which...