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Many veniremen are obviously eager to be among the twelve jurors who will sit in judgment on Richard Speck, 25, the adrift seaman who is accused of murdering eight student nurses in Chicago last July. A middle-aged pastry cook from Peoria, 111., assured a quizzical prosecutor, "I've not discussed the case nor heard anything about it on the radio. I'd be fair, all right." Yet when Speck's court-appointed attorney, Gerald Getty, asked her if she thought she could honestly find Speck innocent, she shook her head and replied, "No, it was taking...
...want a reversal on this case, as we've had in the recent past, because of anything that's been published that is prejudicial to a fair trial." With these cautionary words to reporters. Illinois Judge Herbert Paschen prepared to preside over the trial of Richard Speck, the 25-year-old ex-seaman who is accused of the savage and systematic murders of eight young student nurses in Chicago last July. To head off what he thought might be sensational press coverage. Judge Paschen set down some unusually specific restrictions on what newsmen could do and print...
Relatively Unbiased. Similar arguments-and doubts-arise in the equally notorious case of Richard Speck, the accused killer of eight Chicago student nurses, whose Feb. 6 trial has been shifted 160 miles southwest to Peoria. To be sure, that city was once called "Nowheresville, U.S.A." But it now boasts the U.S.'s biggest exporter of machinery (Caterpillar Tractor Co.), and welcomes more foreign visitors than almost any U.S. town of its size (pop. 133,000). What makes Peoria a better place to try Speck than Chicago...
...hope at least of a relatively unbiased jury, plus pure practicalities. Peoria County has 91,715 potential jurors; the city has a new $4,500,000 courthouse. And according to Chicago Judge Herbert C. Paschen, who will handle the Peoria trial (though Speck's lawyer is demanding a Peoria judge), the city was chosen over Quincy, Rockford and Rock Island because "Peoria does not receive Chicago television, and it has less Chicago newspaper coverage than the rest." Peoria County (pop. 202,400) has a total Chicago weekend newspaper circulation of only 8,378, compared with the Sunday Peoria Journal...
...reporting Speck's arrest, though, the Journal-Star used the same source as many other newspapers: the Associated Press. And while Peoria vows to try Speck fairly, Mayor Robert Lehnhausen has a distaste for the job. "As far as I am concerned," says he, "they can take the trial somewhere else. It will not be complimentary to our public image. We have good press coverage in this community, and we are quite aware of the details of this crime." For his part, though, Judge Paschen is betting that Peorians are slightly less irate than Chicagoans, if only because...