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...Jefferson Davis Parish. On appeal, Collins' lawyer attacked the manner in which the parish impaneled the grand jury that indicted Collins. The parish is roughly one-third Negro, and, to make the grand jury "reasonably representative," the jury commission carefully placed six Negroes on a list of 20 veniremen. From those were drawn twelve grand jurors, including five Negroes. Despite this seeming fairness, argued his lawyer, the impaneling process denied Collins' right to equal protection of the laws under the 14th Amendment...
...plain as day in the U.S. Code, Title 18, Section 3432, which reads: "A person charged with treason or other capital offense shall at least three entire days before commencement of trial be furnished with a copy of the indictment and a list of the veniremen, and of the witnesses to be produced on the trial for proving the indictment, stating the place of abode of each venireman and witness...
Phinney tried to make it clear to "those jurors of the Catholic faith" that there is no inconsistency between church law and New Hampshire law on the matter of killing. Altogether, 70 veniremen were examined; Justice Harold E. Wescott excused 34 for cause; the defense used 17 peremptory challenges, the prosecution seven. From heavily Roman Catholic (60%) Manchester, justice finally settled on a jury which included nine Catholics...
...seen Fiorenza in Tombs Prison. His only three visitors, his lawyers and his mother, swore they had told the Mirror nothing. The prison psychiatrist was quoted as saying that Fiorenza told him: "I never gave an interview to anybody from a paper." Thundered the Post: "How many prospective veniremen for the Fiorenza trial have absorbed the Mirror's vile insinuations that Mrs. Titterton led Fiorenza on; that she encouraged him to spend time with her while she probed for literary material; that she permitted him to visit her several times; that she forgave him for an attempted attack, told...
...went to court to fight for his life last week. So rare was a citizen of Santa Clara County who had not made up his mind about Lamson's guilt or innocence that it took 13 days to select twelve good men & true from a panel of 520 veniremen. But there was to be nothing new at the latest trial except the jury. While the selection of jurors was going on, the familiar chief exhibit, a model of the Lamson bathroom, was kept shrouded from view. As it has done twice before, the prosecution was ready to show that...