Word: jurors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...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...
...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...