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Leading the team are Sociologist Jay Schulman and his principal aide, Psychologist Richard Christie, who have run up a short but impressive trial record. Consultants in three previous trials of radical defendants (the Harrisburg Seven, the Camden 28, the Gainesville Eight), the jury-selection specialists have helped pick 34 jurors who voted for acquittal. Their two misses were the jurors who held out for conviction and forced a hung jury in Harrisburg...
Broken down into categories, the results fill 1,000 pages of computer printouts which are designed to help predict how types of people from the particular community might be expected to react as jurors. There are, says Schulman, significant regional differences. In Harrisburg, polling indicated that women would be more friendly to the defense than men. They promised to be harsher in Gainesville, and the same as men in St. Paul. Following their predictive profiles, the defense looked in Harrisburg for working-class Lutherans, Roman Catholics and Brethren, a pacifist sect in the area. In Gainesville, defense lawyers tried...
...courtroom scrutiny is no less thorough than the computer study. For the current case, ten observers, including an Indian psychologist and a body-language specialist, are scattered around the courtroom jotting notes for later discussions on what the candidates revealed about themselves during questioning. Schulman's own comments tend to gauge emotional styles ("obdurate," "feels warm," "holding back"); Christie records types ("earth mother," "fraudulently mod," "Viking quarterback...
...Hire. Schulman, 46, comes to his avocation from a radical background. He calls himself a "broken-down academic," having lost posts at Cornell and City College of New York because of his activism. He got into the Harrisburg case partly because of his friendship with Daniel Berrigan. Christie, 55, a Columbia professor of social psychology, became involved through his friendship with Schulman...
...bearded, bear like team leader insists that he is merely "doing what lawyers do-only more systematically." Whatever the merits of his approach, it is likely to be too expensive for most trials; the profile poll alone would normally cost some $20,000. Schulman and all members of his teams have always donated their time. Recently he was asked to work for a white-collar criminal defendant, but he declined the chance to hire...