Sentences with phrase «juror in a criminal trial»
The sagacity of juries is perhaps best captured by a bit of advice from a juror in a criminal trial whose comment is relevant to every litigator: «Make your point and move on — we are reasonably intelligent people and have been paying attention to the testimony.»
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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 problem: The display, right outside the ceremonial courtroom where the Percoco trial is likely to occur and where jurors may congregate during jury selection, highlights about 30 criminal cases — from Abscam to Bernie Madoff — but not a single one that ended in an acquittal at trial.
The outcome of the Liang case is imperiled by an unusual and unexpected question: Did one of the jurors, a retired carpenter, hide his father's criminal past in order to be a panelist at the trial?
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.
When jurors are asked to weigh evidence in criminal trials, methods based on Bayesian statistics could assist in avoiding logical fallacies that often undermine legal arguments.
In most criminal trials, the jury is not sequestered until after jurors have been chosen, often not until the jury begins to deliberate.
While leaving detailed practical guidance for employees to the actual prosecuting agencies, the court expressed the expectation that future difficulties should be avoided by early disclosure from jurors of their relevant professional involvement with the criminal justice system, and careful enquiry by the trial judge as to the significance of this in each case.
We disrupt jurors» lives — sometimes significantly — we pay them badly or not at all (Saskatchewan is amongst the more generous at $ 80 / day for a criminal trial), and we ask them to occupy a central position in a criminal trial and subject them to public scrutiny, while denying them the ability to explain themselves.
I served as a juror in a short criminal trial years before my initial engagement as a complainant / petitioner / plaintiff in a series of civil matters.
1) Question: I'm a defendant in a serious criminal trial, and I'm pretty sure one of the jurors deciding my fate has a crush on the prosecutor!
The American criminal justice system is far from being sufficiently enlightened, starting by too many presumed - innocent people caged without bond pending sentencing, moving to Virginia's crabbed criminal discovery system, continuing to Virginia's system that allows prosecutors to scare defendants to plead guilty by their refusal to waive a jury that in many instances and locations can mean more racist jurors than judges on top of the jurors often being more wild cards than judges for sentencing, continuing to the many judges who choose judicial efficiency over a fair trial, continuing to the brutal capital punishment system, cntinuing to excessive mandatory minimum and guideline sentencing, and continuing to the slew of innocent convicted people (many of whom plead gulilty rather than risking a worse fate), and continuing to frequently excessive sentences and excessive probation violation sentences.
1 For attempts to measure the effect of advocacy quality through other means, see, e.g., Banks Miller et al., Leveling the Odds: The Effect of Quality Legal Representation in Cases of Asymmetrical Capability, 49 Law & Soc» y Rev. 209 (2015)(finding that high quality representation evened the odds for asylum applicants and that asylum seekers fared better when unrepresented than when represented by a poor lawyer); Mitchell J. Frank & Dr. Osvaldo F. Morera, Professionalism and Advocacy at Trial — Real Jurors Speak in Detail About the Performance of Their Advocates, 64 Baylor L. Rev. 1, 38 (2012)(finding statistically significant correlations in criminal cases between jurors» perceptions of closing argument persuasiveness and jury verdict, and finding statistically significant correlations in civil cases between perceptions of defense counsel's closing argument persuasiveness and defense verdict); James M. Anderson & Paul Heaton, How Much Difference Does the Lawyer Make?
Voir dire is the process during which lawyers question potential jurors in order to determine their ability to be objective members of a jury during a criminal or civil trial.
One of the challenges facing trial lawyers and criminal lawyers in Massachusetts is to train themselves in the best methods for interacting with prospective jurors in a respectful manner which most effectively elicits truthful responses.
Criminal Law: I.D; Photographs; Confessions R. v. Araya, 2015 SCC 11 (35669) Trial judge's instructions here were «adequate», and though not perfectly phrased, the totality of the instructions, viewed in the context of the case as a whole, adequately guarded against the possibility of jurors using the photographs for «impermissible reasoning».
During the criminal trial in a Kentucky state court of petitioner, a black man, the judge conducted voir dire examination of the jury venire and excused certain jurors for cause.
In a criminal trial, 12 jurors hear the evidence and decide if the accused person is guilty or not guilty.