Word: jurymen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Madison, Wis., slightly less than four months ago, a jury, mostly made up of farmers, began to listen to complicated legal arguments, conducted furiously by a total of 66 attorneys. In succeeding weeks, marching in twos and vigilantly guarded, the twelve jurymen and two alternates were occasionally taken out to exercise on the shores of Lake Mendota. For Christmas they had a tree in the juryroom and as a special favor they were allowed to speak to their families. Their mail was carefully censored. They were not allowed to see The Life of Emile Zola because of the courtroom scenes...
...indictments-pass-ing the note, possessing it, and conspiring to pass it-the Justice charged them to consider the first point alone. Neither Attorney Leibowitz nor Assistant U. S. Attorney John J. Dowling had ever heard of such a procedure, but they made no objection. When the jurymen returned from this simplified task in the record time of an hour and a half, announcing that they had found Palmer guilty and Morosi innocent of passing the note, Justice Van Devanter proceeded to a further time-saving innovation...
...indictment." As for possession he suggested that they find Palmer guilty. Said he: "I am not instructing you to do so, but he couldn't have passed the bill without having possessed it." Then Justice Van Devanter gave the jury five minutes to return the indicated verdicts. The jurymen returned with them...
...long last "Parker v. Tribune" went to the jurymen after Mr. Parker had addressed them for the greater part of a day. Cried Promoter Parker: "The leopard never changes his spots! Once an honest man, always an honest man!" He called the jury's attention to his spotless record on the Tribune. Mr. Parker regards the present-day Tribune as Chicago's greatest liability, once assured a crowd at a stump speech for Presidential Candidate William Lemke that Col. McCormick was both Chicago's "Dictator" and its "Public Enemy No. 1." Col. McCormick had a doughty champion...
...military escort which behaved as though guarding his life rather than attempting to prevent his escape, and in the screwiest trial yet staged outside Soviet Russia he loudly took entire blame for everything and asked heaviest punishment. These court proceedings took about 90 minutes, but the judges and jurymen deliberated for several hours, sending out word to friends from time to time that ten years was going to be the verdict. They then sentenced the Young Marshal to ten years in jail plus loss of civil rights for five years -and he drove with his clattering escort to the handsome...