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That longstanding practice is being shattered in the St. Paul, Minn., federal courtroom where militant Indian Leaders Russell Means, 34, and Dennis Banks, 41, are facing assault and other charges related to last year's armed occupation of Wounded Knee, S. Dak. A special team, working with the defense lawyers, is applying inventive social science techniques to give prospective jurors an unusually systematic going-over...
...operation is divided into three distinct parts-a sociological "profile" of the community, in-court scrutiny of potential jurors, and field investigation of their backgrounds. Preparation for the Wounded Knee trial began three months ago. Thirty volunteers spent five weeks conducting phone interviews with 576 people chosen at random from voter lists. The questions probed for signs of prejudice by asking about attitudes toward business, public personalities, police and, of course, Indians...
Superstar Bobby Orr of the NHL Bruins suffered an injury in the area of his surgery-scarred left knee yesterday and will miss the National Hockey League's All-Star Game Tuesday night in Chicago...
Means and Banks made statements about Indian solidarity and wondered aloud why the jury panel was all white. Network reporters began to wander out, and local cameramen started shooting footage of onlookers instead of the speakers. Then Kunstler predicted that the government's case would flop in the Wounded Knee trial, just as it has in every other political trial of the last few years...
...though the press-conference trappings were gone. One AIM member eyed a bunch of press releases and fact sheets I had picked up. "What have you got there?" he asked suspiciously. "Let me take a look at that stuff." Several Indians talked among themselves and painted banners: REMEMBER WOUNDED KNEE. HONOR THE 1868 TREATIES. Russell Means walked around the room, glaring at people, asking his wife where they were going to spend the night. Finally, Dennis Banks emerged from a back room and asked me to drive him, his wife and brother to Minneapolis...