TRIAL OF U.S. COMMUNISTS
DELAY IN SELECTING JURY
JUDGE’S COMMENT ON DEFENCE TACTICS
(Rec. 8 pirn.) NEW YORK, Jan. 20. No jury has yet been empanelled in the trial of 12 leading United States Communists on charges of conspiring to advocate the forcible overthrow of the Government. Defence counsel have spent the first four days of the trial trying to delay the actual, hearing of the charges. Their main contention has been that the jury selection system in the southern district of New York is biased to exclude the poor, negroes, and Jews. Counsel announced to-day that they might call the presiding judge, Mr Justice Medina, other Federal judges in the district, and even potential jurors, as witnesses’ in the argument on jury selection. Mr Justjce Medina commented: "Calling the judge may be a very ready and available manoeuvre to procure delay. It seems a curious thing to me that such a thing could be. but I don’t pretend to know all the law.”
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25709, 22 January 1949, Page 7
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