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...result, the court took an easy out and invoked a two-year-old precedent. Finding that Maxwell's jurors had apparently been screened in a way that barred veniremen even vaguely opposed to the death penalty, the Justices reversed his conviction and remanded his case to the lower federal court...
...most recent decision on jury selection two months ago, the Supreme Court upheld a Georgia statute that empowers jury commissioners to choose veniremen from "intelligent and upright citizens of the county." The phrase can be variously interpreted. Of 2,152 names on the voting list in Taliaferro County, 178 were excluded on this basis-171 of them blacks. The county is 60% black; the grand jury was 25% black. Yet the court found the statute's standards acceptable, demanding only that they be applied objectively and without discrimination...
Some of the deficiencies in the federal system have been corrected by the Federal Jury Selection Act of 1968, which reaffirms a national policy entitling defendants to juries that reflect the full range of community opinion. The law requires veniremen to be chosen primarily from voter registration lists-which seems reasonable enough, but tends to exclude many blacks, especially in the South. Nor does the federal act touch state laws...
...civilian rules do not always work within the autocratic framework of the military. Under the U.C.M.J., the C.O. not only convened a general court-martial but appointed the prosecutor, law officer (judge) and veniremen for the court-martial board (jury); he even selected the defense counsel, though the accused could ask for another one. Thus the code did not eliminate the phenomenon known as "command control." Looking back on his experience as a Marine legal officer during the Korean War, Boston Trial Lawyer Joseph Oteri describes the C.O.'s influence on military courts this way: "The word always filtered...
Under the old key-man approach, the courts kept calling on the same people over and over again. Now, voting lists will furnish a far greater supply of veniremen, and repeated calls on individual citizens will become rare...