Sentences with phrase «about the juror who»

Often we hear in the FIJA office from or about jurors who initially voted Not Guilty, but changed their vote to Guilty because they couldn't convince the other jurors.

Not exact matches

«It's OK to exclude people who can't follow the law and their oaths as jurors, but you can't say that anyone with qualms about capital punishment is ineligible,» Richard Re, an assistant law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, told Business Insider in an email.

«And you have to think about whether you really want jurors who don't have knowledge or opinions.

The jurors listened as lawyers argued that the trial was about the rights of midwives and parents to choose home birth, and they were aware of the daily presence of midwife advocates who filled the courtroom in support of Cryns.

Within a minute of Lacewell taking the stand, prosecutors, seeking to put a face on who they were about to talk about with Lacewell, showed jurors a large image of Cuomo on a screen in the courtroom.

Prospective jurors will be asked on a soon - to - be-finalized questionnaire if they «have any strong feelings about people who contribute to political candidates that might make it difficult» for them to be fair and impartial.

She is particularly knowledgeable about access issues in the courts and sensitive to reasonable accommodation of PWDs who would appear before her as attorneys, witnesses and jurors.

He said he was satisfied that none had read about the case and that the only juror who looked at the paper just read about the New York Rangers» Stanley Cup bid.

The goal of the government and the defense is to identify jurors who might have made up their minds about the guilt or innocence of Mr. Silver, who was forced to step down as speaker of the New York Assembly after his arrest in January.

Other witnesses on Monday included former Assistant Attorney General Richard Rodgers, who told jurors about reforms instituted in 2007 by then - Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, now, of course, the governor.

For example, jurors tend to give more weight to the testimony of eyewitnesses who report that they are very sure about their identifications even though most studies indicate that highly confident eyewitnesses are generally only slightly more accurate — and sometimes no more so — than those who are less confident.

«Rememory» star and Sundance juror Peter Dinklage, «Underground» stars Jurnee Smollett - Bell and Aldis Hodge, «Bitch» director Marianna Palka, «XX» director Roxanne Benjamin and the «Lethal Ladies» of the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, who star in the buzzed about Sundance documentary «Step,» also joined the march.

The jurors — filmmaker Emily Yoshida, film critic Justin Chang, and IMDb founder Col Needham — also singled out director Carly Stone's comedy «The New Romantic,» about a college girl who starts dating older men, and presented a special jury prize for writing to Nijla Mu» min's «Jinn,» about a 17 - year - old girl whose mother suddenly converts to Islam.

For two hundred pages, Sanders has been surreptitiously empaneling readers as jurors for the coming trial, who by then, can't beg to be excused from bearing witness to the final act in the courtroom: «In a building filled with horrors enacted by one human upon another, this courtroom was about to go well beyond the norm, beyond what most people are brave enough to imagine, let alone recount.»

Arbitration puts the final decision in the hands of one person, who likely is more experienced and sophisticated about the law than six jurors in a courtroom.

When I listen to Edwards all I hear is a talented lawyer who grew wealthy preaching to jurors about pain, suffering and privation.

Juror Dennis DeMartin, who wrote in a book about how he drank three vodkas one night during the trial to help him determine whether the defendant was unfit to drive when he crashed his car and killed someone.

- 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.

Shut up about jury nullification during voir dire and deliberations or you could be excluded or removed from the jury, leaving the defendant with no fully informed juror who will acquit.

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.

The team tracks down jury members to learn that one juror who blogged about the trial while on the jury, also «friended» the judge, who accepted the request, during the trial, a no - no to be sure:

Via Al Nye the Lawyer Guy, I was pointed to an Associated Press article about a Connecticut court offering counseling to jurors who had served in a particularly horrifying home invasion trial.

Finding prospective jurors who can keep an open mind both about issues at the innocence / guilty phase and at the sentence phases, jurors who can stand up against community prejudice.

What of restrictions on lawyers who want to get out - of - court information about jurors, ideally in time to challenge them at the time of their selection, but also to tailor arguments and maybe even appeal results?

Yes, Josh Hallett, you may blog about jury duty as long as you don't blog during trial, say blogging attorneys who responded to my post «May jurors blog jury duty?»

Among judges who do not permit attorneys to use social media during the jury selection process, the most common reasons were concerns about logistics and the privacy of jurors.

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

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.

Given the possibility of jurors who might ignore the law as written, it's not surprising when picking jurors for a trial, lawyers — whose existence is dependent on an orderly society — will ask about nullification, usually in the slightly roundabout way:

We recently brought you news that candidate for Sheriff of Greene County, Illinois, Luke Lamb, has been charged with unlawful communication with a juror for sharing a link to the FIJA website and making comments about jury nullification on Facebook to someone who apparently requested the information.

But mock trials also show sympathetic defendants get more non-guilty verdicts and unsympathetic defendants get more guilty verdicts in front of jurors who were explicitly told about nullification compared to those who weren't.

First, it is critical to understand this one fact about jurors: while they do not particularly like or trust expert witnesses, they do like people who can help them understand the material in a case.

They will distribute free FIJA materials as well as answer questions for those who stop by the table to learn about jurors» rights and responsibilities.

Two months of ongoing criticism of the guilty verdict that sent Dennis Oland to prison — and of the character and motives of jury members who delivered it — is raising questions about rules in Canada that gag jurors after a trial, says Toronto lawyer Allan Rouben.

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.

«Jury nullification» is normally practiced by individual jurors, who know about it.

Richard George Kopf, who blogs about life as a federal trial judge over at Hercules and the Umpire, did an interesting thought experiment in relation to this case where he wondered if it was appropriate to use a peremptory strike of a juror if that juror is ugly and your client doesn't want ugly people on the jury or the case is somehow related to physical beauty.

Most judges find out about juror misuse of Net media from tattling by other jurors or lawyers (perhaps lawyers who feel they are losing the case?).