Word: swains
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Federal legal precedent, based on the United States Supreme Court ruling in Swain vs. Alabama (1965), still allows lawyers to consider race in jury selection in federal courts...
Massachusetts now joins California as the only states to prohibit peremptory challenges solely on the basis of race. The United States Supreme Court in the 1965 case of Swain v. Alabama, upheld lawyers' consideration of race in their use of peremptory challenges...
Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, said yesterday, "It's tragic that the alleged killers of an outstanding young man could be vehicles for striking down a bad rule, but Swain is one of the worst abominations of American constitutional justice...
...brother Bernard, the corrupt bailiff of the town, were sentenced to prison, there to die soon after. One Cathar-a not-so-perfect parfait given to shady business dealings and fornication-was burned at the stake. Beatrice de Planissoles, the chatelaine, was released along with her latest swain, another priest-but Beatrice was sentenced to wear the yellow cross of repentant heretics. As for the zealous bishop, he went on to become the zealous Pope Benedict XII. Harsh and unbending still, he at last corrected some of the ecclesiastical abuses that had first disturbed the flock long...
Room for improvement in relations among students of different religions still exists at the Div School, however, according to Swain. "There are not many courses in which people are encouraged to talk about what it's like to grow up Catholic or Protestant," Swain says. He adds, "You don't talk about your religious experiences. In class, you deal with issues on broad, general terms. There's been an improvement but there's still a lot of ignorance... It's not complete progress; it's a step. But it's way ahead of what's happened in most parishes...