Word: panels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the school board took under consideration a proposal to bring in a panel of outside educators to draw up a plan for eliminating segregation in the city's schools. Willis has already begun to yield...
When New York City newspapers learned about the arrangements for Martinis' trial, they emitted growls of protest: he was to be tried before a three-judge panel in the New York City Criminal Court, where his father, Acting Supreme Court Judge Joseph Martinis, had sat as a judge since 1950, gaining a reputation for delivering strong reprimands to careless drivers. District Attorney Isidore Dollinger insisted that young Martinis would get no special favors because of his father's position. "It doesn't matter if he is the son of a judge, a President or a Governor," said...
Speeding Car. The verdict brought on a hurricane of indignation in New York City. Judge Ambrose J. Haddock, a member of the panel that found Martinis innocent, said that the case was "the most notorious I have ever tried in terms of public reaction to the decision." Buffeted by the howling winds, District Attorney Dollinger began proceedings to obtain a grand jury indictment of Martinis on a charge of vehicular homicide...
While the grand jury was considering the case, the state's Department of Motor Vehicles held a hearing of its own. Along with the testimony that the three judges had heard, a departmental panel considered some facts about Martinis' driving record. He was arrested for speeding three times in 16 days in 1959, lost his driver's license, got it back two months later by lying about past convictions. After the parkway smashup, police found ten unanswered traffic tickets in the glove compartment of his car (five for driving with a defective muffler, five for parking violations...
...jury panel was called, and twenty two men stood up and filtered to the front of the room, some in overalls, most in ill-fitting dungarees or khaki pants. The last two men called were Negroes, and as their steps could be heard clambering down from the buzzards' roost, the people in the audience turned to one another with smiles. The strategy was clever; they intended to call one Negro for each twelve whites so as to vitiate the constitutional objection to the selection of jurors. There was no chance to test the tactic, because the defense had used...