More Intelligent Juries Needed Says American Chief Justice
STUPENDOUS CRIME BILL
By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 9.30 a.m. WASHINGTON, Thursday. PJHIEF JUSTICE W. H. TAFT addressed a conference of the National Crime Commission, urging the selection of more intelligent juries, and reduction of jury exemptions. He declared that the country was aroused to the need for Improved legal machinery in crime cases, and he advocated the effective prosecution and punishment of criminals. The Chief Justice decried “the exclusion of worthy citizens” from the jury-panels, and replacement of them by “jurors of weak intelligence, little experience and subject to emotions easily aroused.” Judge Taft’s address followed a statement by United States Attorney Tuttle, that “the entire crime bill of the United States amounts to £2,000,000,000 a year, which appears on the expense account of every housewife and merchant.”—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 193, 4 November 1927, Page 1
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