ABSTRACT
By Friday, the third day of the inquest, the jury’s bias against the police was clear and apparent. The coroner, who had hitherto made little attempt to control the proceedings, now began to exert a semblance of discipline. Unfortunately he was by no means the first, nor the last person in authority to mistake testy unreasonableness for firmness. Instead of pulling together to ascertain the true circumstances of Culley’s death coroner and jury became increasingly at cross-purposes.
