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December 25, 2015 By Dramatic Listening Leave a Comment

DL057: Intimidated Jury–Somebody’s Stooge

Mr. District Attorney and the Intimidated Jury, (Scene 6): Just the stooge: The District Attorney and his secretary are talking about the case and they are quite satisfied that they have enough evidence to convict Mr. Taylor of jury tampering. It looks like Mrs. Clark was right. The jurors had been manipulated into voting ‘not […]

December 18, 2015 By Dramatic Listening Leave a Comment

DL056: Intimidated Jury–A Jostled Kingpin

Mr. District Attorney and the Intimidated Jury, (Scene 5): Everything to lose: The District Attorney has just informed Mr Taylor that a member of the jury, Mrs Clark, had charged him with swaying the jury into voting “not guilty”. He’s been warned. He could end up on trial. He could end up doing time in prison. By ‘doing time’, […]

December 11, 2015 By Dramatic Listening 2 Comments

DL055: Intimidated Jury — Taking Offense

Mr. District Attorney and the Intimidated Jury, (Scene 4) Taking offense: Harrington has rounded up the accused jury foreman, Mr Taylor, and brought him back to the DA’s office. When Taylor hears the charge against him, he takes offense. “Ridiculous! That’s libelous!” he cries, but it is all a pretense. Deep down inside, he knows he […]

December 4, 2015 By Dramatic Listening Leave a Comment

DL054: Intimidated Jury — Gangster Etiquette

Mr. District Attorney and the Intimidated Jury, (Scene 3) [Photo © VadimGuzhva/Bigstock.com]STANLEY: I wanna thank you, Mr. Butler.BUTLER: For what?STANLEY: For the fix.BUTLER: You mean the verdict? Gangster Etiquette In this episode, we see into the gangsters’ world. Now, when you’re being tried for murder, being faced with the electric chair, and someone gets you […]

November 27, 2015 By Dramatic Listening Leave a Comment

DL053: Intimidated Jury 2-The Informant

Mr. District Attorney: Intimidated Jury, (Scene 2) It’s not your fault: Harrington saw that the morning paper had an article about the Stanley trial. The paper supports the D.A. The article criticized the jury for reaching such a ridiculous verdict. Well, it’s good to know you have the public’s support, but it doesn’t change the situation. The Informant: […]