Word: jurymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smaldone brothers. Eugene ("Checkers") and Clyde ("Flip Flop"), whose Colorado gambling empire netted them $1,000,000 yearly. Checkers was charged with income-tax evasion, but the first jury could not reach a verdict. While a second jury was being assembled, both brothers were caught trying to bribe prospective jurymen. Federal Judge Willis W. Ritter* sentenced them each to 60 years, then remarked indignantly from the bench, "I don't understand why the U.S. Department of Justice . . . should refuse to assist [in the case] . . . but they did." U.S. Attorney Charles S. Vigil agreed that "they quite obviously were...
...jury's verdict: not guilty. Judge Alexander Holtzoff had no doubt that the jurymen had acted conscientiously and discharged their duty. But, he added: "The court does not approve of your verdict." Commented Weinberg: "I am happy to prove my innocence...
Juvenile Jury (Tues. 8:30 p.m., NBCTV) has a panel of five moppets who solve such special problems as what a little girl should do with a horse she won on a giveaway show (the consensus: sell it). After five years on radio, most of the juvenile jurymen are sufficiently grooved in show business to upstage each other, mug heavily at every wisecrack, and slip effortlessly into a Scotch Tape commercial...
...lies," screamed the red-haired widow of the camp's wartime Nazi commander. She had fits of hysteria, smashed up her cell, had to be carried from the courtroom. Doctors insisted that she was faking to avoid punishment for her crimes. Last week three German judges and six jurymen convicted her of inciting the murder of one prisoner, inciting an attempt to murder another. One of the most revolting accusationsthat she had tattooed prisoners killed so she could have lampshades made of their skinhad been dropped for lack of proof. Ilse, throwing another hysterical...
...Cooke's overall performance is his knack for indicating the worth of each piece of evidence as it came before the jury. Inevitably it becomes clear that the incriminating typewriter and the stolen State Department documents must doom the defendant. In the two trials, 20 of the 24 jurymen believed Chambers. Writes Cooke: "The verdict [in the second trial] galvanized the country into a bitter realization of the native American types who might well be dedicated to betrayal from within...