Word: reiben
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...