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...district attorney, R. K. Hanger, announced that Dr. Norris, like any other Texas indictee; will receive acquittal, a minimum of two years for manslaughter, or the maximum of death in the electric chair, depending on how the twelve good Texas jurymen decide...
...born into this world with a brain of putty, with no knowledge of color, no antipathies against black men, but as soon as we are born, people around us begin planting prejudices in our minds. . . . I haven't any doubt but that everyone of you jurymen is prejudiced. We are all prejudiced...
...kept at work here for six weeks on this case. Think of the expense to each of the jurymen. We get $3 a day. Usually our carfares are not paid, that is, they are paid only once a week. My expenses for attending this trial have been higher than $6 a day. I don't care about that. But what I object to, and think I have a right to object to, is to have to sit in a courtroom day after day having my time taken up by idiotic objections from a lot of attorneys on points that...
...were examined?farmers, mechanics, laborers, business men; out of this number 12 could not be found who did not state in definite terms that they were incontrovertibly prejudiced in favor of the defendant. Yet the case against Blazer was clear. The question raised by the disqualified jurymen involved an exceedingly subtle definition of law, an exceedingly complicated issue of ethics. "To commit murder you have to kill a human being, haven't you?" they asked...
...trial for some weeks in the Federal District Court in Chicago, with one John W. Thompson, St. Louis contractor. They were accused of conspiracy to defraud the Government in the letting of contracts for hospitals. Last week the case was given into the hands of the jury. The jurymen were immured for almost five hours. During that time, the defendants sat smiling and chatting with friends and their attorneys ? Elwood Godman for Mr. Forbes, ex-U.S. Senator James Hamilton Lewis for Mr. Thompson. Senator "J. Ham," as he used to be known when he was "the best dressed...