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...outside the book; the moral shortcomings of shifting the blame to demonic forces are readily apparent within it. Perhaps attempting to take a jab at President Bush’s policy on homosexuality, Mailer’s narrator reveals that he “took a hand in the jury??s deliberations” at the 1895 trial of Oscar Wilde. But rather than condemning Wilde’s unjust imprisonment, the result of Mailer’s comment is to excuse it—turning an act of persecution and intolerance into an unavoidable supernatural intervention into...
Withholding evidence that showed Colono’s history of violence—including “numerous” instances where he was “unquestionably” the aggressor—hindered the jury??s decision, Pring-Wilson’s defense lawyers told the Associated Press yesterday...
...think this case goes to the heart of a jury??s role in self-defense cases,” Abramson said. “We want the jury to make intelligent decisions in these cases, but we don’t want to prejudice a jury against a victim with a criminal record...
...Defendant himself, who looks like the sleazy, grown-up version of a sullen child. The company plays it straight when the Honorable Judge stumbles onstage with ruffled clothing and a flask hidden beneath his robes.With many ensemble songs for both male and female voices, “Trial by Jury?? gives the women’s chorus its best material of the night as a gaggle of bridesmaids tripping over each other to get to the would-be groom. Yet the members of the all-male jury do a better job of distinguishing themselves from the group when...
...class—at least in some cases. Along with “H.M.S. Pinafore,” HRG&SP will present “Trial by Jury.” Oftentimes recognized as the launch of the duo’s successful partnership, “Trial by Jury?? is the only Gilbert and Sullivan one act and is performed with no spoken dialogue. Last performed by HRG&SP in the fall of 1995, the comic opera parodies the legal system, and, as with “H.M.S. Pinafore” and many of the duo?...