Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnamese delegation, Johnson grumbled a bit about the weather being unfit for swimming-though McNamara braved the surf anyway. Instead, the President held a protracted council of war with General Westmoreland, whom he had met only once before and was anxious to size up further. Johnson's approving verdict: "He's got a military mind and a social worker's heart...
After the Coleman verdict, five Lowndes Negroes led by Mrs. Gardenia White filed suit in federal court charging that County Jury Commissioner Bruce Crook, two associates, and Mrs. Kelley Coleman, clerk of the local circuit court (and Tom's cousin by marriage) had violated the 14th Amendment's equal protection and due process clauses. Last week the three-judge court in Montgomery upheld the Negroes' complaint, found Lowndes County guilty of "gross, systematic exclusion of members of the Negro race from jury duty." Though 80.7% of the county's 15,417 population is Negro, the court...
...machine of election fraud, Wirges was threatened, beaten up and shot at. Harassed by every possible legal weapon his enemies could dream up, Wirges lost two libel suits for a total of $275,000. A $75,000 judgment was later overturned by the Arkansas Supreme Court; the $200,000 verdict has been set aside, and the case will be retried...
...libel trials, and Wirges had little doubt that he would be convicted. The members of the jury, which included an illiterate and a man whose son is soon to stand trial for murder in the same court, were all well-known to the sheriff. Even before the verdict, Wirges' friends, including the defeated Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Winthrop Rockefeller, were busily getting ready to finance an appeal...
...lets Guy Prime, Rex Geer and Angelica do it, in each of the book's three parts. Their testimony conflicts so widely, just as testimony does in courts, that the reader may end up wishing that the author had donned magistrate's robes and handed down a verdict...