Word: veniremen
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...which swiftly reindicted Patterson. However, it was one thing to allow a Negro to participate briefly in such a routine ceremony, and quite another to permit one to serve in the body that actually decided Patterson's fate. Every Negro in Alabama knew this. Therefore, the twelve black veniremen in Decatur last week were thoroughly uncomfortable. Judge Callahan was in no mood to put them at their ease. He had a few chairs placed outside the jury box for the Negroes to sit on. When one stage-struck blackamoor vacantly wandered into the jury box, his honor leaned over...
...veniremen-butchers, bakers, businessmen-from whom twelve jurors and two alternates were to be chosen...
...Federal courts, unlike some state courts, veniremen may be questioned as a group as well as singly, the judge often taking part to hasten matters. Seldom is more than an hour taken in selecting a jury. Not so in this case. Mr. Steuer approaches the jury box and in a suave, confidential manner breathes an inaudible question, stands stiff waiting for an answer, relaxes when it comes, cogitates gently, whispers another query. Says the Judge: "Mr. Steuer, will you speak a little louder?" More whispered queries. The Judge motions the court stenographers to move their table to Mr. Steuer...
...Medalie addresses the veniremen in a body. Have they any connections, social or business, with Mr. Mitchell through his companies, his friends, or his clubs? Do they know any of the servants in Mr. Mitchell's Manhattan, Tuxedo, or Southampton homes? Are they prejudiced against the income...
...Judge commands a recess for three days to allow all to recover their voices. Then once again the court convenes, and 32 veniremen having been dismissed (19 for cause, 13 by peremptory challenges), the jury is complete. The jury consists of a hotel manager, a clerk, a publisher, a traffic manager, a contractor from The Bronx, etc. One of them is an architect hailing from Groton, Yale, and the Beaux-Arts, another a Parkavian civil engineer. The vital first act is over. If Mr. Mitchell is convicted it will not be by the prejudices of a proletarian jury...