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...jury, interviewed after the trial, was white, middle class and often confused. The judge, Zita Weinshienk, a bright but engagingly modest lady of 36, was seen in her chambers researching puzzling points in Black's Law Dictionary. The prosecutor was a stodgy, humorless sort who spoke in impenetrable legal jargon and once, while examining his witness on the term "pig," inquired: "Officer, were there any animals of the porcine specie there?" The defense attorney was a dynamic 28-year-old who may have seemed too cocky and slick to the Colorado jurors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Courtroom Drama | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

...women (besides Arizona's Lorna Lockwood) now sitting on state Supreme Courts-North Carolina's Justice Susie Sharp and Hawaii's Justice Rhoda V. Lewis. Indeed, the opportunity for choice enlarges each year. Denver, for example, recently acquired its first woman judge of any kind-Zita Weinshienk, 31, a lawyer's bright young wife who got her own law degree at Harvard in 1958. Already a municipal judge, seasoned in traffic cases, she was upped to county judge last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judges: Her Honor Takes the Bench | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

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