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...guess this has been a bad year for justice, a bad year," said U.S. District Judge Fred Nichol, 62. At the very least, it had been a bad eight months as Nichol presided in his St. Paul, Minn., courtroom over the trial of Indian Leaders Dennis Banks, 42, and Russell Means, 34, on charges stemming from last year's 71-day armed occupation of Wounded Knee, S. Dak. After Means called a witness a "liar," Nichol cited him for contempt; later he threw Defense Lawyers Mark Lane and William Kunstler in jail overnight for arguing with him. The prosecution...
...Mike Nichol's The Graduate, with Dustin Hoffman, Saturday and Sunday...
...minded answers in court that contradicted computer predictions. A tip revealed that far from being the regular Methodist churchgoer she claimed to be, she had actually quit her church after an unsuccessful fight to oust a minister she considered too liberal. She was dismissed for cause by Judge Fred Nichol because of her lack of candor...
...Nichol, who is doing all the juror questioning himself, is frankly impressed with the team's techniques and is using some questions it suggests. Soon the panel will be whittled down to 38 possible jurors who have not been disqualified for cause; the prosecution will then have six peremptory challenges, the defense 20. Means and Banks will exercise the final say as to how the defense uses its challenges...
Though many lawyers are interested in the Schulman technique, there is also some skepticism. Ramsey Clark, one of the defense attorneys at Harrisburg, observes, "Generalizations developed through sociological data can be very misleading. They can be used to reinforce prejudice as well as eliminate it." Judge Nichol is far more enthusiastic: "I can see the Government adopting this system some...