Sentences with phrase «potential juror said»

During questioning about juror exposure to the literature, only one potential juror said that he was approached but that he declined to accept the information.

«There are incidents due to people's hardships when we are willing to give leeway,» said Amer, who cited one case where a potential juror said he was in jeopardy of losing his job if he had to take time off work to serve.

Not exact matches

Speaking to potential jurors, the judge said: «This is an important case and we have to find a jury able to try it.»

U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni said she would question each potential juror to see if they noticed anything unusual outside the courthouse, but she seemed to reject a defense suggestion that any demonstrators be kept farther from the courthouse.

«The exhibit as a whole may be interpreted by potential jurors as the Court's celebration of criminal convictions in significant cases, and particularly cases involving allegations of public corruption,» said the letter filed by Daniel Gitner, a lawyer for former energy company executive Peter Kelly, a co-defendant.

After Silver's lawyers complained to the judge that Bharara was contaminating the grand jury and potential trial jurors with his comments, Caproni criticized the prosecutor, saying he went too far.

Potential jurors in the federal bribery trial of Queens state Sen. Malcolm Smith were asked Monday if they recognized any names on a list of possible witnesses or people who would be mentioned during the trial — and nearly all of the 48 in the White Plains court said they knew only of Bloomberg.

These two recent examples of blogging jurors demonstrate that there is no longer any question of the need for lawyers to ask potential jurors if they are writing online, says another jury consultant, Anne Reed, writing at her blog Deliberations.

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

Even when judges do permit attorneys to use social media to research potential jurors, more than half said they require disclosure the court or opposing counsel.

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.

Quite a lot of information that may be useful, say, if you were to be on my list of potential jurors for a major case.

How potential jurors become informed in the Internet era, experts in jury behavior said, cuts in two directions.

HELD Mr Justice Nelson ruled (at paras 35 and 36) that the police officer juror should have been asked to stand down at the outset, as should normally occur where any potential juror knows witnesses who are to be called to give oral evidence, unless it can be said with certainty that the evidence of the witnesses who are known will play no contested part in the determination of the matter.

Following Stanley's acquittal, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, «as a country we can and must do better,» and justice minister Jody Wilson - Raybould said the government is looking at peremptory challenges, which are used by the defence and prosecution to reject potential jurors without stating a reason.

«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.