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- <text id=93TT2506>
- <title>
- Feb. 15, 1993: Judicial Inquisition
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 15, 1993 The Chemistry of Love
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 19
- SOCIETY
- Judicial Inquisition
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Prospective jurors in the Rodney King trial get the third degree
- </p>
- <p> For most Americans, jury duty falls somewhere between civic
- responsibility and a pain in the neck. For the 12 people who
- hear the federal trial of four Los Angeles police officers in
- the case of black motorist Rodney King, it's likely to be a
- life-altering ordeal. In a Los Angeles federal court, 333
- prospective panelists spent their first day filling out a
- 53-page document asking 148 separate questions. It seeks, along
- with much other information, their reactions to last year's
- riots and their feelings about police and race relations. The
- Justice Department assured confidentiality, but one juror
- demanded that presiding U.S. District Judge John Davies swear
- that the questionnaires will remain private forever. Davies
- refused, but told the pool of nervous jurors that the chosen 12
- will have "an extraordinarily interesting experience" that they
- will look back on as "a true highlight" in their lives.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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