This is the day set aside for
Jury Deliberations so we are given freedom.
Not exact matches
November 24, 2015 After weeks of listening to people talk about Albany politics, jurors may have turned to the dark side and started treating each other not
so nicely — and less than two hours after
jury deliberations for the Silver trial began on Tuesday.
That dysfunction seemed to creep into the
jury room on Tuesday; for a juror to ask to be dismissed from a case
so soon after
deliberations begin is highly unusual.
The timing of the appeals court's decision —
so shortly before
jury deliberations — makes this all the more interesting.
I've been on both sides of short
jury deliberations,
so I know those happen for better or worse.
CCA 1981 forbids attempting to solicit information from jurors about their
deliberations,
so it is not possible to enquire if
juries do actually absorb nothing from the papers they have read.
When that concern emerges, we then speculate as to whether the error is likely to have adversely affected the
deliberations of the
jury and, if
so, we conclude that the entire trial is vitiated and that we must start again.
Today, after three days of
deliberation, a
jury in San Francisco federal court found that Android's usage of 37 Java APIs is protected by fair use,
so there was no need for Google to acquire a license before using the code.
The court officer should inspect court rooms, lobbies, lockups,
jury deliberations, and other equipments
so that all safety and security aspects of the judges and courts are preserved.