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...second murder trial before his death last week, a change of venue seemed almost absurd. Probably only a few deaf, blind, illiterate Alaskan Eskimos had never heard of Ruby's crime, much less seen it on film. Yet his lawyers settled for shifting the trial from Dallas to Wichita Falls, a mere 135 miles away. True, Mars was out, but why Wichita Falls? Simply the luck of the draw. The case came before Judge Louis T. Holland, who was sitting temporarily in Dallas, but whose regular district includes Wichita Falls. Not only would Holland have thus kept the case...
Losing Leverage. Another argument against blanket withdrawal of investments is raised by Wichita Lawyer William Thompson, the new Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church. He contends that by taking funds out of a bank or selling shares in a company whose policies they may not approve, the churches lose their leverage to change the minds of corporation officials...
...struck down in October by the Texas Court of Appeals, lay incurably ill of cancer in Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital, to which he had been transferred from the Dallas County jail. The chances seemed remote that he would ever face his retrial, which is scheduled for February in Wichita Falls, Texas...
...Chautau-qua-circuit singing group that so popularized the Little Brown Church in the Vale that the 102-year-old church, with a congregation of only 150, draws 125,000 tourists a year to Nashua, Iowa, has been the scene of 52,000 weddings; of a heart attack; in Wichita, Kans...
...judges complain that juries, either through dumbness or perversity, ignore instructions and promote government by men rather than laws. For 13 years, Authors Kalven and Zeisel have probed such complaints through the Ford Foundation-financed Universi ty of Chicago Jury Project-even to the extent of once bugging a Wichita jury room and scandalizing Congress in the process. Now, after questioning 550 judges who presided over 3,576 jury trials across the country, the authors conclude that the freedom of a jury to inject its own sense of justice is one of the greatest strengths of the system...