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Reasonable Doubt. Rejection is only part of the process. Lawyers exploit voir dire as their only chance to make friends with individual jurors. They joke, flatter, hatch homilies and seek what Manhattan's Stanley Reiben calls "transference of identity." All the while, the defense attorney struggles to get across the law's presumption that a man is innocent until he is proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. As Houston's Walter F. Walsh points out: "Many jurors will not and cannot, within the confines of conscience, find a defendant not guilty just because there...
After Whitmore was convicted on the rape charge last November, his mother fired his court-appointed lawyer; two other lawyers took the case for no fee. In turn, they persuaded veteran Criminal Lawyer Stanley Reiben to join them. Reiben and enterprising newsmen soon began poking hole after hole in the prosecution case. N.A.A.C.P. lawyers also joined Reiben in charging that the jurors in the first trial were influenced by Whitmore's race and the Wylie-Hoffert charges...
...Sons, led by six naked men and a naked woman, crowded into the home of John Lebidoff, an orthodox Doukhobor, and set it afire. Sorrowfully, he submitted, because, like all Doukhobors, he has forsworn violence even in defense of his rights. At Nelson, another orthodox Dcukhobor, Peter Reiben. was warned that his house was to be burned. While he sat up at night to guard it, his haystacks and barns were set ablaze. An orthodox Doukhobor community house at Shoreacres was fired at midday by nearly 100 fanatics, who stripped and paraded...
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