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...former juror McDowell says that the jury was careful to avoid biases based on educational or socioeconomic background...
...period when many newspapers feel that their readers don't love them, the increase in libel suits and costly verdicts may seem further evidence of reader (and juror) dissatisfaction. But the situation may not be all that...
Some recent large libel awards against newspapers do not reflect an increased animus toward the press, in the opinion of Robert Sack, a libel attorney who represents the Wall Street Journal. He thinks that jurors get used to reading about large awards in injury or malpractice cases. Libel suits rarely show out-of-pocket losses, but "when the question turns on how much a man's reputation is worth," Sack believes, "round numbers will come to the juror's mind." What made a $50 million libel suit against the Boston Globe remarkable last week was a verdict that found five...
Although he had admitted passing a classified FBI manual to his blond KGB lover Svetlana Ogorodnikova in exchange for promises of $65,000 and a $675 trench coat, the defense insisted that Miller was trying to infiltrate a Soviet spy ring. One of the two jurors who voted against the conviction on three major counts of espionage later told the Los Angeles Herald Examiner that he felt the confession had been coerced. "He was browbeaten and swayed by the [FBI] interrogation," said the dissenting juror. "He would have signed anything put in front of him." Undeterred, prosecuting U.S. Attorney Robert...
Karen Stein, Pritzker Juror and Editorial Director of the Phaidon Press, a publisher of books on the visual arts, describes Mayne as “the biggest risk-taker in architecture...