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1 Y yN XJustice and the Angela Davis Verdict But the fact that the San Jose jury voted to ac. The post mortems on the Angela Davis trial are quit does no more to vindicate the criminal justice bound to be as fascinating as they are conflicting. system than the judgment of.the Berrigan jury in. There are some who will take the jury's fairly quick Harrisburg, or the Seale jury in New Haven or the. unantmous yote to acquit on charges of murder, thers. Those casen prove only that jurors in cases ninal justice, After all, they American system of.cr would argue, she black, I radical and a Com take their responaiblities seriously and to leave the Whites and one Mexican American. That should at. to the jury room to consider the eviden ast allay Kingman Brawster's fear that a black adcal can't get air trial in America This is all to the good. But it sil lave the system of justice son rewhat less than perfect when politics, her halr style and her rhetoric, who prob It is confronted with less highly charged cases and. less celebrated defendants., Day in and day out, the think that anyone who looks like that and talks like system still stands Indicted by its failure and in- $ Davis' mother, believe that sands of poor, unlettered and,unknown people who the only fair trial would have been no trial at all.. None of these reactions sounds entitely right ike.the.ca grand jury chelle MageeMlss Day rmer co-defendant;w e transferof$10 She.ha ninterested, distracted,. rald with.guns whic among the more normal fates that efall those eavajlable to cipating in a trial in the anAngela ny places in this coun nes where olltica ct is largely coincldentalwos While this situation prevall ency in the great that she kne rarged cases where people rtDoste at thepros ya bit, is in how owledge andappro rich, the powerful and the fam Washington Post Jupe 6,1972 ENCLOSURE 1 R