Sentences with phrase «by jurors during»

Only 30 of the 508 judges who responded reported instances of detected social media use by jurors during trials or deliberations.

The Michigan Supreme Court has laid the hammer down on gadget - happy jurors in banning all electronic communications by jurors during trial, including tweets on Twitter, text messages and Google searches.

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.

During jury selection, one potential juror told the court that she had donated to a campaign by Liu.

«The American justice system is built on the idea that it is blind to all but the objective facts, as exemplified by the great lengths we go to make sure that jurors enter the courts unbiased and are protected from outside influences during their service.

Earlier on Monday, jurors had told the judge they were deadlocked on all charges except for possession of a firearm during commission of a felony, according to an earlier story by the Daily Report.

On one hand, Andrew Fastow — who served up his wife as a sacrifical lamb for his embezzlement of millions from Enron that triggered one of the largest bankruptcy cases in U.S. history, who used the NatWest Three to hide his embezzlement of millions more and then turned on the U.K. bankers to save his skin, who very well may have forged Richard Causey's initials on the Global Galatic «agreement,» whose bizarre testimony during the Lay - Skilling trial was largely discounted by jurors and who had a large hand in ruining the careers of four innocent Merrill Lynch executives in order to lessen his prison sentence — is sentenced to six years in prison.

WORK: Jury selection assistance was provided by preparing case - specific juror profiles, evaluating jurors» responses during voir dire, making recommendations of jurors to excuse, and conducting post-verdict juror interviews to prepare for re-trial.

Indeed, no one, including the judge, is even supposed to be aware of the views of individual jurors during deliberations, because a jury's independence is best guaranteed by secret deliberations, such that jurors may «return a verdict freely according to their conscience» and their «conduct in the jury room [may be] untrammeled by the fear of embarrassing publicity.»

The 15th page of the 19 - page decision noted that Lewie's attorney, Matthew Hug, argued the trial judge erred by not removing a female juror who had sent an «odd and inappropriate» note during deliberations.

In U.S. v. Lawson, on the other hand, the federal Fourth Circuit addressed at length the reliability concerns presented by reliance on Wikipedia.32 The issue arose when, despite the trial court's explicit instruction not to conduct research on the internet or otherwise, a juror reviewed, during deliberations, a Wikipedia definition of an element of the crime with which the defendant was charged.33 The juror no longer had the original Wikipedia entry but obtained a printout two weeks later in anticipation of his appearance before the court on complaints of juror misconduct.

There have also been concerns about jurors doing online research, «visiting» a crime scene on Google Earth or following Twitter or blog feeds written by reporters or others during a trial.

Jurors frequently like to keep occupied during long labourious cross examinations by opposing counsel, when boredom strikes jurors sometimes prefer to leaf through their hardcopies — a nice way to pass the time!

In addition to providing standard clerical, secretarial and administrative support, I have been highly involved in providing core assistance during court room proceedings by recording minutes, calling witnesses, marking evidence exhibits and swearing in jurors.