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Word: reheard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certain to desegregate the jury-picking system all over Georgia, as the state's courts hastened to obey an old mandate freshly spelled out. "It would be prohibitive from a financial standpoint not to," says Judge Nichols. "Their decisions would be reversed, and have to be reheard, every time." That was just what happened in Sumter County, where Civil Rights Worker Ralph Allen will almost certainly be tried again-this time by a legally correct jury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appeals: Desegregating the Jury Box | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

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