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Except that Kent State, and reactions to it like those of the state jurymen who exonerated the Guard and indicted the students, suggest that the presumption isn't correct. It suggests that comparatively well-off people, even in the United States, are willing to discard the restraints of law when they think the dissent it makes possible threatens them enough. And that suggests that some radicals' rhetoric was right all along, that you can't divide freedom, that as long as this country's rulers are willing to kill black demonstrators or Cambodian peasants they'll necessarily be willing...
...Portage County, Ohio jury found Jerry Rupe guilty of interfering with firemen but was deadlocked over the felony counts of arson, first-degree riot, and assaulting a fireman. The jurymen were dismissed after eight hours of deliberation on the three felony charges...
...second directly political play is The Jury, by Ivan Klima, another steadfastly liberal author. He puts onstage the deliberations of five jurymen in a criminal case. Slowly it becomes clear that a sixth juror has already been taken away for asking too many questions. Suddenly the remaining five see the accused for the first time. He has already been beheaded. As the jurors continue their deliberations, they come to the conclusion that the defendant was innocent. The play ends with the jurymen before the judge-where one after another they all vote "Guilty...
...share some female errors fall/ Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all." In the same work, he railed against man's injustice in a deceptively quiet couplet: "The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,/And wretches hang that jurymen may dine...
Picking a panel of jurymen has rarely been much of a problem for many federal court clerks. They have simply gone to "key men" in big cities-the head of the Kiwanis, perhaps, or the Chamber of Commerce boss-and asked for suggestions. Not surprisingly, those who have been recommended have usually been white and comparatively affluent. Judges have tended to approve the system because the lists produced educated juries...