Sentences with phrase «into jury deliberations»
Concerned by the spread of the Web into jury deliberations, trial lawyers are urging judges to pull the plug on plugged - in jurors.
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U.S. District Court Judge Kiyo Matsumoto called the woman into the courtroom and questioned her about the supposed account of the jury's secret deliberations.
During two weeks of jury selection, Judge Samuel Feng repeatedly told prospective jurors that immigration, sanctuary cities, gun control and their political views should not enter into their deliberations.
A juror in the Joe Percoco corruption case was called for service on a second jury as deliberations stretch into the seventh week of trial.
That dysfunction seemed to creep into the jury room on Tuesday; for a juror to ask to be dismissed from a case so soon after deliberations begin is highly unusual.
In a highly unusual move, a juror in the corruption trial of Sheldon Silver sent a note to the judge just hours into deliberations, pleading to be excused from the jury:
The jury then went into deliberation.
Unfortunately for Sylvester, the first juror polled said she did not agree with the verdict, which required the jury to go back into deliberations.
I always try to give a written copy of my jury charge to the jury to take with them into the deliberation room.
Federal Rule of Evidence 606 (b) provides that «[d] uring an inquiry into the validity of a verdict,» evidence «about any statement made or incident that occurred during the jury's deliberations» is inadmissible.
No politician, Judge, journalist, nor any other person, is entitled to enquire subsequently into why the jury reached the decision it did; nor is a member of the jury permitted to make public statements, or give press interviews, about those deliberations.
The most common strategy is incorporating social media use into jury instructions -LRB-...) Also common are the practice of reminding jurors on a regular basis not to use social media to communicate during trial or deliberations, explaining the reasons behind the ban on social media, and confiscating electronic devices in the courtroom.