Word: panels
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...belief of most prosecutors and defense attorneys that persons on the lower rungs of the economic and social ladder tend to be more sympathetic to the accused. The well-to-do, on the other hand, are likely to have greater respect for authority and the law. The most elite panel, New York State's "blue-ribbon" jury, is used almost exclusively to hear complex civil and criminal cases. It is composed of persons with high intellectual and technical qualifications. When one New York blue-ribbon jury convicted two criminal defendants, their lawyers appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. They...
After speaking at Quincy, Wilkins will appear in a public panel discussion sponsored by the Young Democratic Club of Harvard-Radcliffe at 8:30 in the Rindge Tech auditorium...
...panel discussion of "The Negro in Higher Education," Roy Hatt, Assistant Director of Admissions at Northeastern University, Dean Monro, and James Nabrit, President of Howard University, supported Howard's statement...
...Insult. At last, Judge Brown handed down a decision that was at best indecisive. He ordered attorneys to begin this week to select a jury. The questioning of prospective jurors, said Brown, "is the true test of whether this trial should be changed to another city." If an impartial panel cannot be selected, he might then order a change of venue...
During his years on the bench, Johnson has handed down numerous civil rights rulings that angered, or at least annoyed, many white Alabamians. In 1956, as a member of a three-judge panel, he held that segregation on Montgomery buses was unconstitutional-a decision that meant victory for the historic bus boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr. In 1959, Johnson ruled that segregation in public parks in Montgomery violated the Constitution. In 1961, he ordered Macon County voter-registration authorities to permit Negroes to register under precisely the same standards that the county applied to whites...