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...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...
...many of the potential jurors are nervous about the prospect of becoming involved in a notorious trial, Mulvey reassures them that "I'll be right there sitting beside you just in case anyone gets out of line." Nevertheless, on occasion, women jurors have burst into floods of tears at the first glance from Charles Garry, Seale's lawyer...
...selection. Opinions of police and black people in general as well as acquaintance with parties involved in the case are also issues. Once the defense lawyers or the prosecution has ascertained that the juror is prejudiced, they either use one of their peremptory challenges, or convince Judge Mulvey that he should be excused...
...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...