Word: jurymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Foreman thundered that a "cabal" was out to get the defendants, strongly implied that the police were shielding Weissel. The all-male jury put in 16½ hours before it could agree. And much of the time was spent in theorizing about the possible guilt of Weissel, although the jurymen had heard little evidence connecting him with Mossler-a tribute to the mesmeric skill of Lawyer Foreman. As for Widow Mossler, she and her nephew are now free to enjoy a duly inherited $28 million of her husband's money...
Last week, despite the mountains of evidence amassed by the prosecution, the jury decided every last one of those issues in the defendants' favor and acquitted them on all counts. It was clearly the question of Krebiozen's medicinal value that had been on the jurymen's minds. Explained Foreman Adolph J. Beranek: "There had been no fair test of Krebiozen. We were convinced that it had some merit, and we were not in a position to kill it without a fair trial...