Word: pools
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...institution of juries, which are, after all, a group of ordinary citizens who sacrifice their time, comfort and sometimes income. It's not the jurors who are the problem, says Adler, but the ordeal they are subjected to. First, the most competent citizens are permitted to escape the jury pool. The pool is whittled down further by peremptory challenges, which allow lawyers to strike a potential juror from the panel without giving reasons. The lawyers have reasons, of course, often based on stereotypes of race, gender, age or income that lead them to believe a particular candidate will disfavor their...
...create a larger pool of qualified jurors, Adler also argues that legislatures should eliminate most automatic exemptions for such professions as doctors and clergy, which allow some of the best educated members of the community to escape service. The disadvantages of a narrow jury pool that has been worked upon by lawyers determined to seat the least qualified members is evident from Adler's account of the trial of Imelda Marcos, the wife of deposed Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos. In 1990 she faced charges in a New York City court of transferring Philippine government money to American banks to finance...
...draws quite a lot of fans and it usually gets very noisy," Head Coach Don Benson said. "They enjoy quite a big home pool advantage...
From the start of the game, it was quite apparent that MIT came to the pool fully equipped to play a competitive game. MIT quickly got off to a 3-0 lead before the feisty Crimson came roaring back...
...whispered, giving herself in rapture to the cold embrace of the grass as she lay folded in her cloak in the hollow by the pool.' Here I will lie," part of the inscription reads...