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...trial opened last Friday and will continue through the week of May 1-8, when every juror will be asked to submit an opinion via an on-line "jury room," according to an introductory message posted at the "Jury Trial in Cyberspace" home-page...
...ever said that the original Whitewater mess was boring? Forget the excitement of the Monica Lewinsky scandal -- Susan McDougal's Whitewater contempt trial went on a wild roller coaster ride on Friday when, of all things, a juror brought an Arkansas criminal law book into the room where the jury was deliberating McDougal's fate. A court clerk snatched it before the jury could consult the book. The judge abruptly halted the proceedings to investigate the possibility of jury tampering, but deciding that no harm had been done he later ordered the deliberations to resume on Monday. "The strange incident...
...this time the white person lost badly. The jury took only 2 1/2 hours to return the toughest verdict possible, capital murder. Jurors then listened to two days of penalty-phase testimony, which included a tearful plea for mercy from Ronald King. He arrived in court in a wheelchair, with an oxygen tube, needed because of his emphysema. Although some in the courtroom were visibly moved by this frail father's appeal, the jury unanimously voted for the death penalty. A critical factor, a juror said later, was that jail officials had recently found an 8-in. homemade knife...
...white man King for murdering the black man Byrd. (To have done so, in fact, would have violated the white community's contract with itself.) Whatever misgivings arise from the fact of execution itself, the jury's decision declared a happy change in the social organism. One white juror made the argument that King required the death sentence because the community had to show that the murder was "something we cannot accept." If there was encouragement to be taken from Jasper, it lay in her use of the word...
Other participants included Michael B. Keating and William J. Cheeseman '65, attorneys for W.R. Grace; Jerome P. Facher, attorney for Beatrice Foods; Anne Anderson and Donna Robbins, plaintiffs; Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson '60, another attorney for the plaintiffs; Harriett Clarke, juror; and Dan Kennedy, a writer for the Boston Phoenix who covered the case...