Word: paschen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thought she could honestly find Speck innocent, she shook her head and replied, "No, it was taking life, after all." She was excused -as 431 other veniremen have been in the four weeks since Speck's case was called in the Peoria courtroom of Illinois Judge Herbert C. Paschen. By last week only eight jurors had been selected in one of the slowest pretrial impaneling procedures in U.S. history...
...Judge Paschen is taking great pains to avoid repetition of the outcome of the 1954 trial of Cleveland's Dr. Sam Sheppard, who was found guilty of killing his wife, only to have the verdict upset by the U.S. Supreme Court because of prejudicial press coverage. Yet it is not the judge, but the defense and prosecuting attorneys who are taking all the time. Each is questioning prospective jurors carefully, and is being cut off by Paschen only if he becomes unusually long-winded...
...want a reversal on this case, as we've had in the recent past, because of anything that's been published that is prejudicial to a fair trial." With these cautionary words to reporters. Illinois Judge Herbert Paschen prepared to preside over the trial of Richard Speck, the 25-year-old ex-seaman who is accused of the savage and systematic murders of eight young student nurses in Chicago last July. To head off what he thought might be sensational press coverage. Judge Paschen set down some unusually specific restrictions on what newsmen could do and print...
...hope at least of a relatively unbiased jury, plus pure practicalities. Peoria County has 91,715 potential jurors; the city has a new $4,500,000 courthouse. And according to Chicago Judge Herbert C. Paschen, who will handle the Peoria trial (though Speck's lawyer is demanding a Peoria judge), the city was chosen over Quincy, Rockford and Rock Island because "Peoria does not receive Chicago television, and it has less Chicago newspaper coverage than the rest." Peoria County (pop. 202,400) has a total Chicago weekend newspaper circulation of only 8,378, compared with the Sunday Peoria Journal...
...concerned," says he, "they can take the trial somewhere else. It will not be complimentary to our public image. We have good press coverage in this community, and we are quite aware of the details of this crime." For his part, though, Judge Paschen is betting that Peorians are slightly less irate than Chicagoans, if only because the killing did not happen in their own town...