Sentences with phrase «jury box»

In a few years, a generation of kids who apparently can't pay attention long enough to read to the end of this sentence will find themselves sitting in jury boxes.

The faces that do make it into jury boxes across Toronto and Brampton often have one thing in common: they're white.

Ultimately, as Reed concludes: «When a lawyer is standing in front of a single real jury box in a single real case, no research can say for sure what that tiny group of individuals will decide.»

The lawsuit alleges that the Administrative Office has improperly increased fees to cover other costs such as courtroom audio systems and flat - screen televisions in jury boxes.

As a result, arguments about media freedom fell on deaf ears in the jury box.

But in an unusual arrangement, four seats in the second row, just steps from the jury box, have been assigned to a group called «Sanford Pastors Connecting.»

How could McLain have gotten a fair trial, Levine asked, when the judge had allowed jurors to stand in the jury box, eating food and drinking coffee during testimony?

The jurors sit in the jury box, each clutching a legal folder containing important trial exhibits.

«Don't tell me what happened last week,» Azrack said at one point, to chuckles in the overflow courtroom, where most press and spectators sat to make way for prospects, some of whom were left standing as others filled the jury box, several rows of chairs and the court benches.

If he did, «You would leave the jury box and run home.»

The prisoner exchange, hammered out by senior diplomats in Washington on Wednesday, was finalized when the 10 Russian spies filed into Manhattan federal judge Kimba Wood's courtroom shortly before 3 p.m. and took seats in the jury box.

Defendant Louie Boffano has a hired gun, a.k.a. the «teacher» (Alec Baldwin), who scans the jury box for a vulnerable juror, and there sits Annie with an implied «me» written on her forehead.

Jake conjures up an insanity plea on behalf of his client, then, during his closing soliloquy, brings the jury box to tears with his plangent appeal to imagine the desecration of this little girl.

Then Sherman rose and slowly approached the jury box, where nine women and three men — six white, six African American — waited with anticipation to hear what he had to say.

Keep in mind that everyone else in the audience has been put uncomfortably into the jury box.»

I learned that jurors did not like it when I moved too close to the jury box — it felt to them like I was invading their space.

Until legislators decide to do something about it, only some citizens can expect to see a panel of «peers» in the jury box.

The ruling, which takes effect Sept. 1, will require Michigan judges for the first time to instruct jurors not to use any handheld device, such as iPhones or Blackberrys, while in the jury box or during deliberations

Kottmyer's rationale, according to Massachusetts jury consultant and lawyer Edward P. Schwartz on his The Jury Box Blog, was that it had never been done before, so it need not be done here.

We have recently posted Jury Rights Day graphics you can download and use to link back to FIJA's website to help educate potential jurors about their rights and responsibilities in the jury box.

The judge, through a Spanish - speaking interpreter, asked everyone who was there for driving without a valid license to move into the jury box.

I was burning out, desperately trying to keep my head above water, and having regular nightmares of seeing my parents in the jury box — nightmares of their being taken away from me for 364 days.

There were too many of them for the jury box, so they huddled around it.

«Real - time reporting from within the jury box could hurt the dynamic of the jury, where jurors are supposed to decide facts based on evidence presented to them, in deliberations with their fellow jurors.

Sitting in the jury box I was saying to myself, «Why doesn't he ask.

This usually takes some time because each side will exercise their right to strike or eliminate jurors and few are remaining of the original twelve called to the jury box.

Once the initial twelve jurors are taken through this process, then additional people are asked to come sit in the jury box and the process is repeated until twelve jurors are finally chosen.

Those individuals are asked to come sit in the jury box, where the lawyer's questioning will proceed.

Like so you're there, you are the conduit through which a team of lawyers, potentially, a team of people is watching everything that happens in the jury box, everyone's reactions, and then giving you the information that you need to ask follow up questions and figure out what needs to happen.

During voir dire, a small group of prospective jurors is seated, usually in the jury box, and each party or that party's attorney asks the prospective jurors various questions.

Once the judge has asked each party or attorney if he wants to strike any prospective juror «for cause,» and any jurors who are stricken for cause leave the jury box, the judge will ask each party in turn if he or she wants to use a «peremptory strike» or «peremptory challenge» to remove any juror.

In some courthouses, witness and jury boxes may be inaccessible to wheelchairs or public information counters may be too high for some persons.

Letty sat handcuffed in the jury box, swimming in her ill - fitting orange jail uniform.

The Vermont federal court in Burlington is equipped with several monitors placed directly in front of the jury box, at the witness stand, and the judge's bench.

She writes about the intersection between criminal law and legal ethics, and has researched the issue of using impermissable reasons (e.g., race or gender) to strike prospective jurors from the jury box.

There should be Jim Crow sections of the jury box, and a separate Jim Crow dock and witness stand in every court — and a Jim Crow Bible for colored witnesses to kiss.»»

Given the limited seating in the court house I was situated in the jury box, and I may be one of the first in Ontario to live tweet from a juror's seat.

To begin with, I practiced law in the state courts of central Nebraska for 13 years under a «docket call» regime where periodically all the lawyers would assemble, sitting in the jury box and elsewhere, waiting for the judge to call their case to discuss the status of the matter and pending motions.

Before the two tech titans can clearly argue whether Google's use of the APIs was fair, they need to agree on how to explain APIs to their lay audience in the jury box — and they haven't done that.

Well, the good news is I didn't have to spend Valentine's Day sitting in a jury box.