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...often "Cooperized"-i.e., "excoriated and publicly humiliated"-for smiling or rustling papers. To defendants, especially juvenile delinquents, the judge was withering. "You are all punks," he told a group of young defendants on one occasion. When a grand jury committee made a recommendation that Cooper did not like, said Juryman Dashiell Madeira, a retired admiral, "he turned his back on us, turned crimson and berated the group...
...draw diagrams of the accident scene. Often he chalks figures to justify the damages he is demanding-so much per hour for pain, so much for medical bills, so much in lost wages, etc., etc.-occasionally makes a deliberate mistake in addition, so as to let an alert juryman or a judge correct his arithmetic...
...harsh light on the dangers inherent in trial by jury. He sat a national audience in the jury box and let them find out for themselves what an abyss of conscience the plank of constitutional law is laid across, and how it feels in the pit of an honest juryman's stomach when he has to walk that plank...
...fine time on Studio One's Twelve Angry Men. The play, by Reginald Rose, started out with an old idea (what happens in a jury room) but turned it into a crisp and exciting melodrama. Franchot Tone got a baleful malevolence into his part as a juryman determined on hanging the defendant, while Robert Cummings was bland and believable as the juror who changes everyone's mind. Among the others, Walter Abel, Edward Arnold, John Beal and Paul Hartman played interesting variations on the theme of guilt or innocence...
Southern Hospitality. In Birmingham, when the judge asked him what the initials stood for, Juryman W.J. Weaver recalled: "My mother and daddy had eleven daughters in a row. They decided to call me Welcome John...