Word: panels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were all given numbers that separated us into panels. When a jury was needed for a trial, they called one or more of the panels to go up to a courtroom. There would then be a selection process with questions designed to separate people who might not be able to serve on the jury of a trial and hear the evidence with an unbiased ear. I sat and read the newspaper for a long time before my panel was called, and my excitement began to build...
...bothered throughout, especially since the two Blacks on the panel were excused because they had been robbed before. I did not feel that it was fair for a Black man to be answerable to 12 white jurors and a white judge. How could the result be much different from the way things worked in the South, where for a long time. Blacks were purposely excluded from juries...
...three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals continued this trend by deciding unanimously last Tuesday to throw out a suit brought by Democratic congressmen that charged President Reagan with violating the resolution. The court claimed that the ceasefire in the Iran-Iraq War had rendered moot the legislators' case that Reagan had acted illegally by introducing troops into a hostile setting in the Persian Gulf without notifying Congress...
College is the last time students will have to examine ethical issues independently, said Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor of Linguistics Noam Chomsky at an MIT panel yesterday...
After several legal challenges, the four-year-old board compelled five patrolmen to testify about their conduct for the first time on Thursday night. Superior Court Judge Joseph Mitchell confirmed the panel's right to subpoena in August...