Sentences with phrase «about potential jurors»

A web page is worth a thousand words, especially if you're looking for information about potential jurors who will decide the fate of your case.

As lawyers and jury consultants seek to learn about potential jurors, social media postings provide great fodder for ferreting out a juror's beliefs and personal preferences.

No less that Edward Greenspan has commented on the use of social media by lawyers and in particular how social networking websites can be mined for information about potential jurors.

While having the most accurate information about potential jurors is important, this plan has two serious pitfalls.

He hopes that having more information about potential jurors will lead to selecting a jury that is fair.

Still, Mr. Brafman added, «in today's climate, defendants facing political corruption charges must be concerned about potential juror bias that may be based more on perception than fact.»

Not exact matches

The racially diverse jury of five men and seven women were chosen from a pool of thirty potential jurors, some of whom expressed strong feelings about corruption and big money in politics, and even about hydro fracking.

The racially diverse jury of five men and seven women were chosen from a pool of thirty potential jurors, some of whom expressed strong feelings about corruption and big money in politics, and even about hydro - fracking.

The racially diverse jury of five men and seven women were chosen from a pool of thirty potential jurors, some of whom expressed strong feelings about corruption and big money in politics, and even about hydrofracking.

Potential jurors will be asked to answer 33 questions before getting picked or tossed — including their attitudes about Albany politicians and Silver specifically.

Inside the courthouse, U.S. District Judge Joan M. Azrack asked 51 potential jurors — one by one — about their jobs, what they do in their spare time, their favorite television shows and which public figures they admire.

About 110 potential jurors have gone through the initial screening process.

Nearly as many potential jurors complained about corruption or money in politics.

If someone complained about the judge's conduct to a judicial ethics body in Texas, the judge would very likely receive a private reprimand or maybe if the ethics panel was particularly incensed, a public reprimand, but only because he lost his cool on the bench, not because he required the potential juror to stick around until another suitable case could be found.

Also, the judge is within his rights to punish the potential juror if he determines that the potential juror is actually lying about his ability to be impartial in an effort to evade jury service rather than because he sincerely believes that he can't be fair, and judges have wide authority to determine the credibility and truthfulness of statements made to him in open court (i.e. if the trial judge finds that you are lying, this determination will almost always be honored by an appellate court considering the judge's actions).

- Lawyers are taught to encourage potential jurors to grandstand about their beliefs so they can figure out who are «bad apples» that they will deselect from the jury.

Prosecutors at that trial had complained to the judge about the FIJA pamphlets and wanted any potential juror who had received one to be removed from the selection process.

His goal was to inform potential jurors about a vital, centuries - old function of juries.

Skip encourages you to take an hour a month, an hour a week, or whatever you can to educate potential jurors about their right to vote Not Guilty if the defendant is prosecuted under a bad law.

During questioning about juror exposure to the literature, only one potential juror said that he was approached but that he declined to accept the information.

Too many newspaper editors have fallen prey to the propaganda campaigns of insurance companies who try to poison the perception of the public — and potential jurors in our community — about the impact of litigation on our society.

Evan Brown's Internet Cases blog flagged an interesting case over the weekend coming out of Morris County, N.J. Brown writes that the courthouse in that county provides wireless internet access, and during jury selection, plaintiffs counsel in a medical malpractice case began using his laptop to «Google» potential jurors to gain additional information about them.

Earlier this month in San Francisco, the Superior Court issued a proposed rule that would require potential jurors be given a reminder not to blog, tweet or conduct Internet research about cases.

We'll have a lot more videos to feature on our blog Freedom Fridays and elsewhere on our website to educate potential jurors about how they can use the opportunity of jury service to protect all of our rights from abuse at the hands of government.

We have recently posted Jury Rights Day graphics you can download and use to link back to FIJA's website to help educate potential jurors about their rights and responsibilities in the jury box.

Depending on the court, they usually bring in about 50 potential jurors.

Thus, the plaintiff's lawyer will question the potential jurors on their feelings about lawsuits and people who sue.

He will also try to determine the potential jurors» life experiences through careful questioning, which will give him a better idea about that person's ability to fairly decide the case.

Either way, it probably won't create reasonable doubt in the juror's mind about the specific charge they're weighing and it has the potential to open a can of worms that would be unfavorable to the defendant.

Some jurors find it odd, even insulting, that before the trial begins, attorneys from both sides will question potential jurors about a wide range of topics to find jurors who likely will be impartial.

The government's avowed determination to eradicate myths about supposedly true victim behaviour, in spite of there being no UK research evidence of a negative impact by such myths on the conviction rate, makes a stark contrast with their apparent insouciance about the potentially negative impact on the conviction rate as a cumulative result of potential jurors reading lurid media accounts of the exposure of false rape claims.

From Pachacutec (Huffington Post), blogging last month about the examination of potential jurors in the Libby trial, and quoting «one of the day's last potential jurors -LSB-,] a young defense attorney from one of the law firms in town»:

Leading British barrister Helena Kennedy Q.C. regards cameras in court as a threat to justice, evolving out of base commercial imperatives that are not concerned about justice or the potential impact on witnesses, jurors and even lawyers and judges.