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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consistently struck down unfair statutes and practices. But the court has insisted only that black defendants have a right to a fair chance that blacks be on the jury, and the right is seldom fulfilled in practice: most juries are permitted to remain white. In the 1965 case of Swain v. Alabama, for example, the court upheld the conviction of a black rape suspect, even though peremptory challenges had excluded all blacks from the jury and no black juror had served in the county for 15 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Bias in the Jury Box | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

...marijuana to a user in need, 2) an offer from a seller to help retail pot, and 3) a suggestion from state authorities that she become an undercover informer. Naturally, she declined all three. A picture of Researcher Linda Young in connection with an election story produced a sudden swain, who wrote: "I was madly in love with this girl who looks exactly like you. Anyway, she finally got married last September and I've been lost ever since. I don't know what your martial [sic] state is, but if you can write to me it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jan. 12, 1970 | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

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