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Hanley and his trial partner, Chester Kamin, attached such importance to the kind of juror they would get that they hired a political polling firm to survey the attitudes of potential jurors toward each side's arguments. This technique, like those pioneered by liberal lawyers during the political trials of the 1970s, provided a demographic profile of the kind of jurors MCI should seek: self-made and competitive people, intelligent, first-and second-generation Americans, susceptible to arguments that mighty AT&T had been unfair...
Hanley and Kamin even recruited some of the people surveyed to form three different mock juries for them to experiment on. On three successive nights, Hanley and Kamin presented the heart of their case to one of the juries, then used a see-through mirror to observe the discussion as the jurors "deliberated." The following day they analyzed the jurors' reactions and then revised their presentation for the next mock jury...
...Soldiers of the Law" [July 20] you stated no woman has ever been elected president of a state bar. On June 20, 1981, the Rhode Island State Bar Association named Beverly Glenn Long as president. She is the fourth woman to hold such a position. In 1977-78, Carole Kamin Bellows was president of the Illinois State Bar. Alaska has had Donna Willard, while Karen L. Hunt is currently occupying the office...
...Leon J. Kamin '48, a former-instructor in Social Relations, was aquitted by Federal District Judge Bailey Aldrich '28 after a ten day trial. Aldrich's decision, which held an entire McCarthy investigation illegal, forced the Justice Department to drop a similar case against Wendall H. Furry, associate professor of Physics. McCarthy, calling for Aldrich's impeachment, said the ruling was "ridiculous to the point of being ludicrous...
...close 260-250 final, Ari M. Lieman '82, Steve A. Wolfe '82, Michael F. Day '83 and Steven Rapkin '83 defeated last year's Harvard champions, Paul S. Bernstein '81, Mark A. Zupan '81, Steven S. Kamin '84 and Steven N. Kaplan...