Sentences with phrase «potential jurors who»

A web page is worth a thousand words, especially if you're looking for information about potential jurors who will decide the fate of your case.

to exclude potential jurors who drive and pay for automobile insurance premiums (or have automobile insurance premiums paid on their behalf);

On the day of a trial the court brings in a large number of potential jurors who have been selected from the voting rolls or driver's license information or some other similar government list.

In the Stanley case, all members of the jury were white and the potential jurors who were indigenous were blocked by the defence, using peremptory challenges.

Prosecutors at that trial had complained to the judge about the FIJA pamphlets and wanted any potential juror who had received one to be removed from the selection process.

Not exact matches

CNN: Priest's guilty plea throws wrinkle into Philadelphia sexual abuse trial Attorneys in the child sexual abuse and conspiracy trial of two Philadelphia priests debated Monday over which potential witnesses jurors would be allowed to hear regarding a third defendant who pleaded guilty to molesting boys just days before opening remarks.

Potential jurors so far range from a retired building maintenance worker to a former producer for Court TV to a hospital worker who on her questionnaire wrote «all politicians are crooks in some way.»

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.

Wood, who expects the trial to last three to five weeks, had asked potential jurors if they had a family member or close friend with a developmental disability, a hint at a potential defense strategy painting Adam Skelos in a more sympathetic light.

«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.

None of that tells me who our judge will be, who will be on our potential jury pool, and what the mood and physical health will be of the judge, potential jurors, prosecutors and opposing witnesses If they just won a poker game, they might be happy.

- Lawyers are taught to encourage potential jurors to grandstand about their beliefs so they can figure out who are «bad apples» that they will deselect from the jury.

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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.

I just want the record to reflect, I guess, to be blunt, [the juror], for whatever reason, had some very bad, I guess to be blunt again, body odor, which was extremely strong, and I was able to detect in my lobby, as was the clerk, which is a personal matter for that potential juror, but for the fact that her personal problem was [of] such a magnitude that other jurors who had already been picked... either by act or words had indicated discomfort with that problem.

He quotes another lawyer who calls the timing of the gag - order motion «odd,» because Capeless is appealing the Baran ruling and «there is no pending trial whose potential jurors could be influenced.»

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.

Voltaire is the go - to service of choice for legal professionals everywhere, who need to instantly search for information on potential jurors and other individuals related to their cases.

Thus, the plaintiff's lawyer will question the potential jurors on their feelings about lawsuits and people who sue.

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).

Some jurors find it odd, even insulting, that before the trial begins, attorneys from both sides will question potential jurors about a wide range of topics to find jurors who likely will be impartial.

You eventually sit back down at the counsel table with a much more thorough understanding of exactly who your potential jurors are.

The use of group affiliations, such as age, race, or occupation, as a «proxy» for potential juror partiality, based on the assumption or belief that members of one group are more likely to favor defendants who belong to the same group, has long been accepted as a legitimate basis for the State's exercise of peremptory challenges.

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.