Sentences with phrase «jurors in»

Short of sequestering staffers, as if they were jurors in a high profile trial, there is no way of preventing word from spreading to friends and associates.

The Broward County State Attorney's Office typically presents evidence to grand jurors in all first - degree murder cases and all police shootings.

The kleroterion (pictured) is a stone randomization device used by Athenian citizens who would place their personal pinakion — a small, bronze identification plaque — into the kleroterion to be randomly selected to become jurors in public legal disputes.

It's not surprising this ended up in the appellate court, with the parties being ordered to brief the issue of what level of scrutiny is appropriate for gay jurors in light of the recent Supreme Court DOMA case.

That price covers paid participants that are a representative sample of possible jurors in your venue, two hours of mock jury time, and four hours with one of Decision Quest's jury consultants.

One of the jurors in the Avery case was found guilty of misconduct after talking publicly about the case at a supper club.

The jury gets a chance to deliberate after the case has been presented, and it's very easy for other jurors in the deliberation room to point out they're ignoring that piece of information and not let it influence the final decision.

Are there any circumstances where jurors in the US are placed under similar restrictions to those in the UK, or is their freedom to speak a general principle?

And because the case - specific use of peremptory challenges by the State does not deny blacks the right to serve as jurors in cases involving nonblack defendants, it harms neither the excluded jurors nor the remainder of the community.

«Although the issues at stake in this action involve the private rights of the litigants, the motion relief sought by the plaintiff involves much broader considerations that may impact the rights of other parties involved in motor vehicle accident cases as well as possibly the rights of citizens of Ontario to sit as jurors in those cases,» the judge wrote.

Based on the good verdict, the jurors in that case clearly rejected the ridiculous insurance company arguments.

She appeared in federal court one day last week, filled out forms and was told to return this Monday to be on a panel of 60 potential jurors in a health care fraud case.

It may now be harder than ever for defendants to find wholly untainted jurors in their own communities.

«20 Mack jurors picked, 15 to go»: The Reno Gazette - Journal today contains an article that begins, «Continuing at a snail's pace, defense attorneys and prosecutors questioned another 14 people on Thursday and selected five to potentially serve as jurors in the Darren Mack murder case.»

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»:

Howard also pioneered the use of forensic psychological and neurolinguistic principles to persuade judges and jurors in trial.

A growing number of recent decisions in courts across the globe have commented on the concerns raised by the explosion in social media use by jurors in trials.

It's worth noting that jurors in the UK are prohibited from disclosing details of their deliberations even after the trial is over, so it's impossible to know for sure when nullification occurs.

Others said jurors in the Eastern District weren't sophisticated enough to decide the outcomes of patent cases, which tend to involve complicated and highly technical inventions.

(c) That notwithstanding the Common Law of England, nothing in this Constitution prohibits trial by jury of less than 12 jurors in any civil proceeding in which the right to a jury trial is preserved (amended by Chapters 203, 204, Acts of 1992, ratified Nov. 3, 1992).

He did not pressure jurors in a case to vote one way or the other.

Far more worrisome is the behavior of politicians, who continuously try to take power and authority away from jurors in the form of so - called «tort reform.»

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.

The New Hampshire House yesterday approved on a 184 - 145 vote a bill to require judges give specific jury nullification instructions to jurors in criminal cases

Tonight Florida FIJA representative James Cox will be in Orlando, Florida doing an interview with Channel 9 News (WFTV) about this unconstitutional administrative order governing expressive conduct toward summoned jurors in Orange and Osceola counties.

She was the only woman who was admitted to the Florida bar in 1936 — which was before women could even be jurors in the state.

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.

But jurors in November 2007 acquitted him on every count, save for a $ 600, half - ounce crack - cocaine deal seven years ago.

In other coverage, The Tulsa World reports today that «Jury pool quizzed on tolerance; Possible jurors in a former Creek County judge's trial are warned that testimony could be sexually explicit.»

● Is death - qualifying jurors in capital cases fair?

Earlier this year, Ed Forchion was interviewed on Black Talk Radio regarding jury nullification and the importance of fully informed jurors in opposing racist laws and prosecutions.

A free CJER Online Course by the California Center for Judicial Education and Research uses a simulation format to provide legal and tactical information about handling hardship, cause, and peremptory challenges with prospective jurors in the context of a felony trial.

These are actual responses from actual prospective jurors in this case who took time to carefully and thoughtfully write out their answers,» Petrocelli said in the filing, Hays reports.

[T] his makes the case feel coherent and consistent, and I think it helps the jurors in understanding my exhibits if they become familiar with in general how they look.»

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.

Listing six different symptoms and having each one answered in precisely the same way not only breaks the evidence down in a comprehensible manner; it also places the jurors in the habit of answering in the same fashion for each symptom.

There are after all more than just jurors in our courts.

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.

What is the reputation of jurors in the area?

After a week - long trial, jurors in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas decided that Motorola had «willfully» infringed on five Saint Lawrence Communications patents relating to HD Voice technology.

In other words, if 7 % of a court district's presumably jury - eligible population is African - American men, then 7 % of jury summonses need to reach African - American men, so that (one would hope) around 7 % of jurors in fact turn out to be African - American men.

His argument is that discussing the case could prejudice jurors in a retrial.

These findings will likely increase calls for jurors in the UK to be screened for pre-conceived bias before being selected as a juror, particularly within rape trials.

New research has shown that nearly half of jurors in rape cases come to a guilty verdict before deliberation, indicating a predictive relationship between juror demographics, personal experience, and psychological make up — impacting upon verdicts in rape cases.

When prospective jurors in Kent County Circuit Court said that they had transportation problems, child care concerns, or the inability to take time away from work, they usually got to go home, no questions asked.

The decision overturned a Michigan murder conviction because the state court selected jurors in a way that disproportionately and systematically excluded blacks.

Too many newspaper editors have fallen prey to the propaganda campaigns of insurance companies who try to poison the perception of the public — and potential jurors in our community — about the impact of litigation on our society.

A judge declared a mistrial after the jury foreman, Perry Shade, is accused of the conducting his own investigation into the case and distributing materials to fellow jurors in the jury room.

Yet it was on that date in 1670 when a group of jurors in London used their right and power to invalidate an unjust law.

«My fair city's own district attorney, Steve Cooley, who is quoted as saying that the jurors in the Robert Blake trial were «incredibly stupid,» writes Volokh.