Sentences with phrase «half of all potential jurors»

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.

Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg reprised his role as a public servant today, joining a pool of dozens of potential jurors in an assault and coercion case in Manhattan.

Read the full SFL post and check out the great photos of your potential jurors standing in line at Walmart here.

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

During the jury selection process, the judge and attorneys will question the pool of potential jurors regarding pertinent matters of the case.

With Voltaire, I can develop rich social - psychological profiles of potential jurors, in a matter of hours.

If the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case influences the dominant narrative that pops into our minds when we address the kinds of questions Prof. Thompson poses, then it may pervert our perspective as a society of potential jurors.

But there are serious flaws in how the courts gather data to create lists of potential jurors, and serious flaws in the way those potential jurors are contacted.

All of those methods of compiling lists of potential jurors lead to sending far too many jury summonses to white, prosperous suburbanites.

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

Voir dire examination serves to protect that right by exposing possible biases, both known and unknown, on the part of potential jurors.

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.

He will also want to know if any of the potential jurors have ever been sued or sued anyone previously.

On the day of a trial the court brings in a large number of potential jurors who have been selected from the voting rolls or driver's license information or some other similar government list.

The suggestion is to take away advocates» ability to exercise «peremptory strikes» (i.e., the ability to reject a fixed number of potential jurors without stating any reason).

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.

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.

TORONTO — Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, today ordered Crown attorneys to cease collecting any personal information of potential jurors, beyond that which is necessary under the Juries Act and Criminal Code.

The vast majority of states outside of the commonwealth permit a process whereby the judge and the attorneys inquire of potential jurors regarding their attitudes and beliefs on issues involved in the case.

Based on the findings of the investigation, the Commissioner is ordering Crown attorneys to cease collecting any personal information of potential jurors beyond that which is permitted under the Juries Act and the Criminal Code, relevant to criminal conviction eligibility.

The government's avowed determination to eradicate myths about supposedly true victim behaviour, in spite of there being no UK research evidence of a negative impact by such myths on the conviction rate, makes a stark contrast with their apparent insouciance about the potentially negative impact on the conviction rate as a cumulative result of potential jurors reading lurid media accounts of the exposure of false rape claims.

Sheila Bristo, acting director of the corporate planning branch at the Ministry of the Attorney General, had managers at each Superior Court location contact local band chiefs in order to get an updated list of potential jurors.

From Pachacutec (Huffington Post), blogging last month about the examination of potential jurors in the Libby trial, and quoting «one of the day's last potential jurors -LSB-,] a young defense attorney from one of the law firms in town»:

Thaler v. Haynes involves a defense objection under Batson v. Kentucky (pdf)(1986) to the prosecution's peremptory strike of a potential juror; Batson forbids striking potential jurors from a panel solely based on race.

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

On Feb. 22, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision regarding the «demeanor - based» rejection of a potential juror in a death penalty case.

The Appeal Court ordered a retrial but the Supreme Court ruled the province had done an adequate job of trying to get Indigenous people on the list of potential jurors.

The name and address of the potential juror is the only information provided to the Sheriff.

In every jury trial, both the Crown prosecutor and the defence can automatically reject a set number of potential jurors through what are known as peremptory challenges.

With CaseXplorer, you can build detailed online surveys and poll a large, diverse pool of potential jurors.

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.

The Post's Spencer Hsu: «The federal judge overseeing the criminal trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and business partner Rick Gates imposed a gag order in the case Wednesday, ordering all parties, including potential witnesses, not to make statements that might prejudice jurors.

The federal judge overseeing the criminal trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and business partner Rick Gates imposed a gag order in the case Wednesday, ordering all parties, including potential witnesses, not to make statements that might prejudice jurors.

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.

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.

The racially diverse jury of five men and seven women were chosen from a pool of thirty potential jurors, some of whom expressed strong feelings about corruption and big money in politics, and even about hydro fracking.

The racially diverse jury of five men and seven women were chosen from a pool of thirty potential jurors, some of whom expressed strong feelings about corruption and big money in politics, and even about hydro - fracking.

«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.

The racially diverse jury of five men and seven women were chosen from a pool of thirty potential jurors, some of whom expressed strong feelings about corruption and big money in politics, and even about hydrofracking.

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.

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

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.

More than 100 prospective jurors filled out questionnaires yesterday, as prosecutors and defense lawyers sought to identify potential bias or conflicts that might disqualify people from serving next week in the corruption trial of ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

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.

«There are incidents due to people's hardships when we are willing to give leeway,» said Amer, who cited one case where a potential juror said he was in jeopardy of losing his job if he had to take time off work to serve.

A questionnaire distributed recently to potential jurors contains a long list of current and former members of state government, Cuomo's administration, state higher education institutions, and also people connected to development and business firms across the state.

To prevent disparities in jury rulings, more attention needs to be placed on the pre-trial aspects of the jury selection process, such as minority underrepresentation and measuring bias in potential jurors.

The selected artist is considered by the jurors to have the potential to make a lasting impact on the history of American art, based on the excellence of past work as well as present work in the Biennial.