Word: jurors
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...Juror Doug Baggett said both sides made such passionate arguments that he changed his opinion almost daily. "You felt like a ping-pong ball," said the manager for a legal department. In the end, jurors didn't believe the hands-on executives were unaware of any wrongdoing at the company. One juror, Freddy Delgado, an elementary school principal, pointed out that he's responsible for what happens inside classrooms - even when he's in his office or off campus. "I'm still responsible if a child gets lost," he said. Fellow juror and business owner Wendy Vaughn said...
...WILLIAMS V. PRICE (2003) Alito's decision overturned a lower-court ruling that denied a new hearing for Ronald Williams, a defendant convicted of first-degree murder, even after a juror was overheard making a racist remark immediately after the trial. Alito reasoned that the comment, made outside the jury room, had not been justifiably excluded from consideration by the lower court. Alito's opinion granted Williams the right to argue that his imprisonment had been unlawful...
...taken similarly progressive stances. Overturning a district court decision in Saxe v. State College Area School District, Alito boldly defended the students’ first amendment rights in non-school-sponsored speech. In Williams v. Price, he granted a writ of habeas corpus to a black prisoner when a juror made a racist remark after the trial, which emphasized the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury. Alito also authored a unanimous decision in Police v. City of Newark, ruling against a law that require police officers to shave their beards, because such laws violate officers’ civil liberties...
...wrote "don't get too war out on Wilson," when I clearly meant "far out." There were some words in my notes that I could not account for--at one point they read, "...notable..." I didn't know if that was Rove's word or mine, and one grand juror asked if it might mean "not able," as in "Wilson was not an able person." I said that was possible, but I just didn't recall that. The notes, and my subsequent e-mails, go on to indicate that Rove told me material was going to be declassified...
During deliberations in Andrew's sentencing, juror Stephen McCann, 13, wondered aloud why a 17-year-old was still playing with action figures. The jury foreman then questioned whether Andrew should have confessed sooner to his parents. After all the jurors had their say, the group reached a consensus: 30 hours of community service and an apology letter to Wal-Mart. "By now he should be mature enough not to steal toys," McCann said. "I think this will help him resist the temptation...