Miller's Court - The Informer

DateDecember 2 1982

Can DescriptionsMaster Miller's Court X2252 The Informer Rec. 12/2/82

AbstractMiller's Court: The Informer; A senator is charged with taking money for his campaign but an informant is testifying against the senator; the questions in this episode are how far government should be allowed to go in encouraging state witnesses, and how reliable those witnesses appear; lawyers Richard Blumenthal and Gregory Craig for each side of the questions argue before a jury; the lawyers discuss their strategies in pressing the jury and the informant, as well as the party charged with the crime in the case; the jury pool is questioned on their reaction to the lawyers' tactics; 10 jurors found the senator not guilty of the charge because they did not believe the informant, or at least did not believe the preponderance of evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, and 2 jurors found the senator guilty;

OtherIn the studio Arthur Miller, Julie Sattler Rosene; William Lowell, Sandy Devincentis, Diane Sherlock, Emmons S. Levine, Paul Taylor, Bruce Goldman, Joe Jacob, Frank Gallozzi, Michael Grana, Jerry Milot, Rich O'Neill, Bill Frewald, Mike Foti, Rob Roy, Karl Lorencic, Geoff Sullivan, Edward Paolino, Peter Walent, Jim Watson, Sumner Shain, Ted Talanian, Doug Devitt, George Ellard, Linda Adler, Michael Nurse, Alan Ritsko, Ed Andre, Jim Gilbert, Robert King, Scott Philbrick, Howard Rouse, Tracy Medeiros, Sylvia Soares, Ed Hall, David Kennett, Pine Manor College, Claude Pelanne, William C. Brennan, J. Clifford Curley;