Sentences with phrase «not 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.

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.

If someone complained about the judge's conduct to a judicial ethics body in Texas, the judge would very likely receive a private reprimand or maybe if the ethics panel was particularly incensed, a public reprimand, but only because he lost his cool on the bench, not because he required the potential juror to stick around until another suitable case could be found.

Also, the judge is within his rights to punish the potential juror if he determines that the potential juror is actually lying about his ability to be impartial in an effort to evade jury service rather than because he sincerely believes that he can't be fair, and judges have wide authority to determine the credibility and truthfulness of statements made to him in open court (i.e. if the trial judge finds that you are lying, this determination will almost always be honored by an appellate court considering the judge's actions).

The judge's outburst isn't wonderful as a matter of judicial decorum, but the outburst probably doesn't undermine the judge's authority to compel the potential juror to serve in some jury pool.

You are instructed to appear in court to be on a panel of 60 potential jurors in a health care fraud case but, I mean, damn — you don't have time for that nonsense!

Would you like some new and inexpensive ways to: prove that an ex-spouse can afford to pay child support, find a disgruntled former employee who knows where the skeletons are hidden, locate assets of a judgment debtor, serve process when you don't have a current address, identify an expert witness, find lost heirs, or uncover bias in potential jurors?

Skip encourages you to take an hour a month, an hour a week, or whatever you can to educate potential jurors about their right to vote Not Guilty if the defendant is prosecuted under a bad law.

Earlier this month in San Francisco, the Superior Court issued a proposed rule that would require potential jurors be given a reminder not to blog, tweet or conduct Internet research about cases.

Many jury summonses allow potential jurors to exclude themselves if they have transportation challenges, or if they would suffer a financial hardship if required to serve (few employers in lower - income communities will pay an employee who doesn't show up for work due to jury duty), or if they are physically disabled.

I have served on two juries, and been called as a potential juror in six other cases where I was not chosen.

It started, Reed recounts, when a potential juror in a murder trial said she would not believe police witnesses.

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

When the use of Google to conduct research on potential jurors was brought to the attention of the trial judge, the court prohibited the research because no advance notice had been given and the judge wanted to create an «even playing field,» since the defendant's counsel was not conducting the same research.

That was a preremtory strike, she acknowledged, that she could have used against another juror if potential bias against her were not in play.

Now, he is not to be confused with founder Kenneth Lay, whom potential jurors credited in questionnaires as being «the biggest lying crook of all.»

Moreover, the attorney may not engage in any deception, including pretending to be someone else, for the purpose of gaining access to the potential juror's posts.

In Formal Opinion 2012 - 2, it said that an attorney may view publicly available social media postings for the purpose of evaluating a potential juror, but the attorney may not «communicate» with the potential juror any more than he could have before the advent of social media.

In another narrative of a trial involving potential property damage that could have occurred (but did not), judges» awards were less affected by the potential (but non-existent) damage than jurors» awards.

The potential always exists that if a lawyer ends up on the jury, they could explain the elements of the case to their fellow jurors, who may then not rely as fully upon the carefully crafted language in the instruction (s).

Either way, it probably won't create reasonable doubt in the juror's mind about the specific charge they're weighing and it has the potential to open a can of worms that would be unfavorable to the defendant.

Also, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that in criminal cases, prosecutors can not use peremptory strikes to eliminate potential jurors based on the juror's race, ethnicity, or gender.

That's right, just like in real life, you're not allowed to cyberstalk potential jurors by proxy.

The opinion also stated that an automatic notification informing a juror or potential juror that her site has been viewed would not constitute a communication from the lawyer in violation of Rule 3.5 (b).

The situation was a light - hearted reminder that 1) errors do happen and 2) some potential jurors do have legitimate reasons they can't serve.

Voir dire in those states allows the attorneys on both sides to ensure that jurors with potential bias are not seated in the case.

The state trial court judge upheld the strike because the prosecution provided a race - neutral reason, but that judge did not observe the potential juror's behavior.

Leading British barrister Helena Kennedy Q.C. regards cameras in court as a threat to justice, evolving out of base commercial imperatives that are not concerned about justice or the potential impact on witnesses, jurors and even lawyers and judges.

«It is going to be amazingly difficult to seat a jury in this case because not only do the potential jurors live in central Florida, but we have had an enormous backlash against terrorist acts in the past 17 years since 2001, and this case, like the Boston Marathon case will be felt as an opportunity to right those wrongs,» O'Mara said.