Sentences with phrase «for potential jurors»

This film has some great lessons for potential jurors, including the intensity of the psychology and interpersonal dynamics during deliberations, the need to be skeptical of the prosecution's case, the gravity of what is at stake for the defendant as compared to the minor inconveniences for jurors, and so on.

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

The names are included on a questionnaire for potential jurors, to help prosecutors and defense lawyers assess whether jurors have any relationships with the people named that could prevent the jurors from being impartial.

I just want the record to reflect, I guess, to be blunt, [the juror], for whatever reason, had some very bad, I guess to be blunt again, body odor, which was extremely strong, and I was able to detect in my lobby, as was the clerk, which is a personal matter for that potential juror, but for the fact that her personal problem was [of] such a magnitude that other jurors who had already been picked... either by act or words had indicated discomfort with that problem.

If a challenge is passed it is lost, unless it is used for a potential juror called after the initial twenty - one.

A document called a «summons» is prepared for each potential juror.

The use of group affiliations, such as age, race, or occupation, as a «proxy» for potential juror partiality, based on the assumption or belief that members of one group are more likely to favor defendants who belong to the same group, has long been accepted as a legitimate basis for the State's exercise of peremptory challenges.

Not exact matches

The burden of proving guilt «beyond a reasonable doubt» is far from absolute as a protection against the accidents of incriminating circumstance, the political ambitions of some prosecutors, the potential for framed evidence, the passions of communities, and the prejudices and limitations of jurors, judges and prosecutors alike.

Hundreds of potential jurors came to the courthouse Wednesday to fill out questionnaires, the first step toward selection of a jury for a trial set to start March 12.

«The exhibit as a whole may be interpreted by potential jurors as the Court's celebration of criminal convictions in significant cases, and particularly cases involving allegations of public corruption,» said the letter filed by Daniel Gitner, a lawyer for former energy company executive Peter Kelly, a co-defendant.

Several potential jurors at the federal securities fraud trial of Martin «Pharma Bro» Shkreli were excused after telling the judge they couldn't be impartial toward the flamboyant former pharmaceutical CEO because of his notoriety for raising the cost of a life - saving drug 5,000 percent.

Potential jurors so far range from a retired building maintenance worker to a former producer for Court TV to a hospital worker who on her questionnaire wrote «all politicians are crooks in some way.»

You are instructed to appear in court to be on a panel of 60 potential jurors in a health care fraud case but, I mean, damn — you don't have time for that nonsense!

A California judge declared a mistrial in a medical malpractice case last week after the doctor defendant — and former drummer for The Offsrping — performed CPR on a potential juror.

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

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.

One of my fellow potential jurors has arrived for jury selection today wearing hair curlers and mismatched reindeer socks.

Done correctly, you will get many potential jurors stricken for cause.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Voltaire is the go - to service of choice for legal professionals everywhere, who need to instantly search for information on potential jurors and other individuals related to their cases.

Moreover, the attorney may not engage in any deception, including pretending to be someone else, for the purpose of gaining access to the potential juror's posts.

The need for the expert assistance to clarify technical matters for triers of fact should, he reasoned, be «assessed in light of its potential to distort the fact - finding process» — for example, by wasting time or confusing jurors.

Most recently, prosecutors in the now famous Casey Anthony litigation offered a potential juror's Facebook post as grounds for a preemptory challenge.

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.

In Formal Opinion 2012 - 2, it said that an attorney may view publicly available social media postings for the purpose of evaluating a potential juror, but the attorney may not «communicate» with the potential juror any more than he could have before the advent of social media.

After that, the jurors for your case will be called to your court room and the lawyers will have an opportunity to question potential jurors to seat a jury of either 6 or 12 fair and impartial jurors.

Upon contact, officers explained the reason for the contact, including that the police had been informed of the defendant handing out information to potential jurors.

Once an entire jury is seated and no party has tried to strike any of the potential jurors for cause or by using a peremptory strike, the jury is generally sworn in and the trial moves on to the next step, often preliminary instructions or opening statements.

Quite a lot of information that may be useful, say, if you were to be on my list of potential jurors for a major case.

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.

to exclude potential jurors who drive and pay for automobile insurance premiums (or have automobile insurance premiums paid on their behalf);

Lawyers for the plaintiff and Merck will begin picking 12 jurors and three alternates tomorrow out of a group of 73 potential jurors.

I prepared for some skepticism among potential jurors.

jury commissioner: The local official responsible for giving the court lists of qualified 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.