Sentences with phrase «ask potential jurors»

Circuit Court Judge Richard Sankovitz had decided at the outset to ask all potential jurors, «Do you blog?»

These two recent examples of blogging jurors demonstrate that there is no longer any question of the need for lawyers to ask potential jurors if they are writing online, says another jury consultant, Anne Reed, writing at her blog Deliberations.

Each side gets the opportunity to ask potential jurors questions in an attempt to determine whether that juror has any biases or problems being fare to their client.

The questionnaire also asks potential jurors if they have any connections to business developments such as the Central New York Film Hub, the Aloft hotel, or to state agencies such as ESD or the Dormitory Authority.

The protest came up repeatedly in court Monday, as the judge asked each potential juror whether they had seen the commotion and whether it could affect their judgment.

During jury selection, Judge Vincent Briccetti asked potential jurors whether they heard of any other state political corruption cases.

Wood, who expects the trial to last three to five weeks, had asked potential jurors if they had a family member or close friend with a developmental disability, a hint at a potential defense strategy painting Adam Skelos in a more sympathetic light.

In Nassau County for many years Grand Juries were convened by asking potential jurors to volunteer for Grand Jury duty.

During voir dire for a DUI case, Seidler asked potential jurors questions such as whether they liked animals, whether they could «envision the coffee table in front of them» or describe a house that they might see if, hypothetically, they were in a forest and came to a clearing.

Not exact matches

During the voir dire process the potential jurors come in and they're asked a series of questions by the parties and by the judge to determine whether each potential juror can be completely unbiased and impartial and objective, to make sure they're not biased towards one party or the other.

Prospective jurors in the upcoming federal criminal trial of Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to Cuomo, are being asked to note any potential conflicts with dozens of individuals whose names or testimony may be part of corruption case.

Potential jurors in the federal bribery trial of Queens state Sen. Malcolm Smith were asked Monday if they recognized any names on a list of possible witnesses or people who would be mentioned during the trial — and nearly all of the 48 in the White Plains court said they knew only of Bloomberg.

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.

This is the process of picking a jury by asking questions of potential jurors.

- Lawyers ask open - ended questions to encourage potential jurors to volunteer more information than necessary.

Therefore, it may become more common for a judge to ask the deputy to find potential jurors.»

In Virginia, the opposing lawyers are permitted to ask direct questions to potential jurors before exercising their handful or two of peremptory jury strikes.

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.

Several months ago, Weinstein had asked the court to pay for a jury consultant to help in phrasing questions for potential jurors.

She adds that Canada, unlike the United States, does not ask extensive and intrusive questions of its potential jurors.

She believes that the best way to learn if a potential juror might be biased is to ask her, «Will you be biased?»

The process begins by the judge asking certain basic questions to make sure that all of the potential jurors meet the minimum qualifications to be a juror.

A spokeswoman for the prosecution service confirmed yesterday that it is asking its 20 Crown offices whether confidential databases were used to probe potential jurors and if the data was disclosed to the defence.

peremptory challenge: When a side in a case asks the court to get rid of a potential juror.

HELD Mr Justice Nelson ruled (at paras 35 and 36) that the police officer juror should have been asked to stand down at the outset, as should normally occur where any potential juror knows witnesses who are to be called to give oral evidence, unless it can be said with certainty that the evidence of the witnesses who are known will play no contested part in the determination of the matter.

During juror selection (voir dire) a potential jurors can be asked questions to determine their suitability to serve on the jury.