Word: jurymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Remember Judas. Murphy clearly was saving himself for his summation-and it was a remarkable exhibition. For more than an hour, he ranted and raved. His statements at times sounded so utterly divorced from reality that some of the jurymen cast their eyes down and studied their hands. Judge Thagard slumped deeper and deeper into his brown leather chair as if by doing so he might disappear altogether...
...Jurymen and spectators in a darkened Belgian courtroom last week gasped with shock as a professor of clinical medicine showed lantern slides of babies who had been born without arms or legs, or with other crippling deformities because their mothers had taken thalidomide early in pregnancy. The young mother in the prisoner's box covered her eyes. She had seen such a baby last May. It was her own, and she had killed it. Now she was on trial for her life. Being tried with her for conspiracy were her husband, mother, sister, and their family doctor, Jacques Casters...
Down with Fraud. Last week, as a federal grand jury convened in Nashville, Publisher Amon Carter Evans could take the special pride of a son who has succeeded in filling his father's shoes. The jurymen will hear testimony on an election fraud-uncovered by the fighting Nashville Tennessean after the Democratic primary last month. In the city's seamy second ward, a political fief controlled by City Councilman Gene ("Little Evil") Jacobs, Tennessean newsmen turned up documented evidence that dozens of the ward's absentee ballots, which decided the outcome, had been turned over...
...late Senator Joseph McCarthy, Nizer also favors waving a manila envelope full of "documents" to discomfort witnesses during crossexamination; the envelope is often empty. During direct examination of his client, he says, a good lawyer will stand at the far end of the jury box so that the jurymen can focus their attention on the witness without having their attention distracted or their view obstructed by counsel. But in cross-examination of a hostile witness, the lawyer will move close to the witness stand so the jury can closely watch every reaction in the duel between two adversaries. During crossexamination...