Word: mulvey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Calmly trying to deflate that notion, Superior Court Judge Harold Mulvey allowed great latitude to defense attorneys to probe for latent prejudices in prospective jurors. If a white man innocently remarked that he had nothing against "them," the defense swarmed all over him. A factory foreman who said that "my lead man is a colored boy" was later dismissed. Seale's own prejudices, in fact, affected the proceedings. When Garry questioned a white employee of the Schick Safety Razor Co., for example, Seale scribbled on paper: "His eyes don't blink. MECHANICAL CHAUVINIST." Garry used...
...politics are obvious in the way Seale and Huggins have been treated in jail, in the way that even Mulvey seems powerless to order any real change in their enforced life-style...
...they would need to hear some evidence to prove that Huggins and Seale were not involved in the Rackley slaying. It is clear as these people leave the courtroom that they have no conception of why they were excused, that they see no contradiction between their statements and Judge Mulvey's careful admonition about the presumption of innocence...
However, for anyone who bothers to make that trip to New Haven during the calm before the storm, the heavily charged political atmosphere is obvious, despite the courtroom decorum, mostly enforced by Seale and Huggins, partly out of pragmatism and partly out of a grudging respect for Judge Mulvey, who seems to try very hard to maintain his high standards of criminal justice and yet to make them fit this unusual case...
Perhaps the story is true; perhaps Garry is right; perhaps no matter how hard the good liberals like Judge Mulvey try, a square peg won't fit into a round hole, a political trial won't try like an ordinary criminal one. But will the liberals, who would care if they could be convinced, and the conservatives, who wouldn't, be convinced by marching in the streets when the jury comes back? Will Seale and Huggins go free...