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Martha Stewart's recipe for acquittal begins with selecting the most sympathetic jury. In preparation for a Jan. 20 showdown with federal prosecutors in New York City, her legal team spent last week sifting through hundreds of 35-page juror questionnaires that probed such matters as whether people had ever purchased a Martha Stewart product or heard of the biotech firm ImClone. The fate of the domestic diva, who faces charges stemming from her sale of 3,928 ImClone shares shortly before the stock price plummeted in 2001, hinges on whether the jury sees her as a cover-up artist...
Experts say jury selection in this case will depend less on gender, income or homemaking prowess than on the strictness of each juror's moral outlook. "The prosecution is looking for people who see the world in black and white," says jury consultant Donald Vinson. "Martha's lawyers are looking for people who, before blindly obeying a rule, ask how important it is." To help find the latter, Stewart has hired jury psychologist Julie Blackman, whose recent high-profile client Frank Quattrone, the banker charged with obstruction of justice, wound up with a hung jury...
Also in late July of this year, Byrne’s attorney filed a failed motion to allow an extended questionnaire to be filled out by potential jurors—covering issues such as police brutality—in addition to the standard juror-selection queries. Stearns simultaneously denied a defense motion to give jurors a guided in-person tour of the Brighton, Mass. district station house in which Trombly was allegedly beaten...
...listed Perry, was paid to pen a catalog essay on him for an exhibition of Perry's work in Amsterdam this year. Tate, the Tate Modern's magazine, which promotes the museum's activities - including the Turner Prize - reports that in 12 of the last 20 years, Turner Prize jurors came from galleries that had hosted exhibitions for nominated artists. Three 1989 nominees had exhibited in Bristol's Arnolfini Gallery - whose director, Barry Barker, was on the Turner jury. In 1996, juror James Lingwood disclosed that his wife was an agent of one of the nominated artists. A spokesman...
...treat the news as theater. Remember the stir over the hairdos of prosecutor Marcia Clark in the O.J. Simpson trial? Style and entertainment value can too readily top substance in some news coverage, particularly on television, and public understanding suffers as a result. If the camera caught a juror in a slumping posture, would there then be media "analysis" on clearheadedness? If cameras routinely appeared in the jury room, would sober, sensitive and sensible individuals come to regard jury duty as taking part in a show of cheapened justice? LARRY MORRISON Sturbridge, Mass...