Word: jurors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--Lt. Col. Oliver North's jury debated his guilt or innocence in a tightly guarded room yesterday, as an alternate juror who heard all the testimony said she would have voted to convict him on some of the 12 charges...
...holdouts were swayed by the testimony of medical experts who said that Nussbaum, dazed, malnourished and horribly battered at the time of her arrest, was incapable of the ferocious assault. Said juror Helena Barthell: "She could not have picked up a 43-lb. child and propelled her into a wall...
...Harpell had to use ten words or less to convince a jury that a young defendant should be sent to the slammer for breaking into the house of the Three Bears. "Juvenile delinquent caught," she began forcefully. "Rampaged family home," she continued, looking gravely into the eyes of a juror. Then she demanded, "Must pay." The performance was part of an exercise in how to communicate and persuade at a recent workshop run by Applied Theater Techniques, a Los Angeles-based group that teaches acting skills to attorneys...
...reason for the drama boom is that a rising number of cases reaching the courts involve complicated business disputes. The result is juror boredom. "Jurors come into the courtroom expecting Perry Mason," says San Diego- based Actor-Director Ronald Arden, who has been coaching lawyers for a decade. "But most of the time they're getting Mickey Mouse." The emphasis on unemotional analysis inculcated in law school can actually work against the attorney who is trying to convince ordinary human beings. "As a whole, we don't use our bodies or voices well," admits Attorney Jerry Coughlan of the National...
...letter sang the praises of the Republic series on mismanagement in the Bureau of Indian Affairs and a thick stack of documents attested to the story's impact. "Next year I'm automatically going to vote against any entry that weighs more than I do," joked one weary reader. Juror Alan Moyer admits that some cover letters are "obviously trying to influence the jurors." He should know. It was Moyer, as the Republic's managing editor, who oversaw his paper's extravaganza of an entry. (He did not judge the entry, however; jurors and board members must recuse themselves when...