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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...
...Hotel. At first, not all members were quite prepared for change. The 275-member house of delegates very nearly denounced a key provision of the Johnson Administration's pending civil rights bill, which would desegregate Southern federal juries by ending the "key man" system of prominent citizens recommending veniremen. Instead, all U.S. federal jurors would be selected at random from voter-registration lists. In a dramatic appearance, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach delivered an impassioned defense of the bill and cried: "I can't live with the present system!" Impressed, the house of delegates decided to go along...
...weeks before the November election, at which time the chief prosecutor was a candidate for municipal judge and the presiding judge [the late Edward Blythin] was a candidate to succeed himself." Judge Blythin, who won in a landslide, was undisturbed when Cleveland papers published the addresses of all 75 veniremen, who were thus deluged with letters and phone calls. Eleven jurors had read about the case before being selected; seven continued to receive Cleveland papers. All twelve were pictured more than 40 times in those papers, which they were free to read throughout the nine-week trial because they were...
...whether he thought the white race superior to the Negro, whether he felt that any person like Mrs. Liuzzo who associated with Negroes thereby made herself inferior to other whites. Over vehement defense objections, Judge Thagard let Flowers get his answers. In short order, Flowers established that of 30 veniremen available for the jury, eleven felt that white civil rights workers were indeed inferior...
Next day, when the 60 veniremen-all white-were asked whether they had any fixed opinion on the case, one blurted: "I have. Not guilty." Amid snickers from white spectators, the state objected that such a remark in open court prejudiced a fair trial; but again a continuance was denied. The state then asked permission to withdraw the case until it was prepared to prosecute...