Sentences with phrase «allow potential jurors»

Many jury summonses allow potential jurors to exclude themselves if they have transportation challenges, or if they would suffer a financial hardship if required to serve (few employers in lower - income communities will pay an employee who doesn't show up for work due to jury duty), or if they are physically disabled.

Communicating in the social media context includes sending a friend request or otherwise allowing the potential juror to know that the attorney is viewing the juror's posts.

Not exact matches

CNN: Priest's guilty plea throws wrinkle into Philadelphia sexual abuse trial Attorneys in the child sexual abuse and conspiracy trial of two Philadelphia priests debated Monday over which potential witnesses jurors would be allowed to hear regarding a third defendant who pleaded guilty to molesting boys just days before opening remarks.

Maryland caselaw allows the trial judge to run that entire jury questioning show, except that Maryland judges often will permit the parties to ask some follow - up questions to individual potential jurors.

A peremptory challenge allows the Crown or defence counsel to eliminate a potential juror from serving on the jury.

Social media now allows us to find out what people are thinking; in the US they can do research on the potential jurors before the trial.

The app allows you to create profiles for each of the potential jurors in voir dire and keep detailed notes for each juror in an easy to use interface.

A judge in Montgomery County, Maryland, denied a request to allow research of potential jurors because it could have a chilling effect on jury service if they knew they were going to be Googled as soon as they walked into the courthouse.

That's right, just like in real life, you're not allowed to cyberstalk potential jurors by proxy.

Still, the trial court abused discretion by allowing it because its probative value was substantially outweighed by its potential to confuse jurors and result in unfair prejudice.

Voir dire in those states allows the attorneys on both sides to ensure that jurors with potential bias are not seated in the case.

Some in the legal community are of the view that peremptory challenges, which allow the prosecution and the defence to reject potential jurors without a reason, should be abolished.