Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skinnier wood-back models. Rivulet-shaped panels are tacked on side walls to reflect flow of sound from stage. Hall looks like it was just given permanent wave. Total cost: $470,000. Acoustically, critics happier. Musicians too. Sound is livelier. Bass and high strengthened, echoes reduced. But visually, verdict is negative. Hall looks completely different. Blue walls now recreation-room russet. Curling wall panels clash with hexagonal clouds. New seats resemble those in cheap movie houses. But Philharmonic Hall at last has sound it can live with...
...point, a juror gave the accused a broad wink. It was a good tipoff. After 1 hr. 29 min. of deliberation, the jury reached its verdict: "Not guilty." Not that anyone had expected differently in "bloody Lowndes," as Negroes call the county. Nonetheless, Attorney General Flowers, a courageous, outspoken antisegregationist whose own life was threatened during the trial, denounced the verdict as an outrage. Said he: "Now those who feel they have a license to kill, maim and destroy have been issued that license...
...filing "astronomical" claims, says the institute, the artful advocate earns pretrial newspaper publicity that gets prospective jurors psychologically prepared for huge verdicts. During the trial, the lawyer keeps repeating the "price," sometimes leaves it on a blackboard as a means of subliminal advertising. To woo jurors, the lawyer may suddenly decrease the price to show "fairness." In an equally dramatic maneuver, he may increase it to suggest that the plaintiff underestimated. Then, as Cleveland's Jury Verdict Research Inc. puts it: "The higher the amount of suit, the higher the point at which the jury begins its deliberations...
...sharp rebuttal for plaintiffs, President Joseph Kelner of the American Trial Lawyers Association last week attacked the defense monograph as a "radical abandonment" of "dignified and customary" methods of legal reform. According to Kelner, only 2% of all claims ever go to verdict, defendants win more than 50% of the verdicts, and judges are well-equipped to set aside excessive awards...
...trial verdict brought outcries of protest all over the nation. The American Civil Liberties Union last night asked Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black to conduct an investigation and to halt future trials in Lowndes County. Flowers, who called the trial a "mockery of law and order," said prejudice in Hayneville would make it impossible to ever get a fair hearing...