Sentences with phrase «problem of jurors»

The problem of jurors on social media is not theoretical.

Judges are becoming familiar, too, with problems of jurors communicating with the outside world and conducting their own research via their Blackberries, smart phones and other devices.

Not exact matches

In the afternoon, jurors saw documents problem from the Percoco's bank and mortgage accounts that shows the purchase of an $ 800,000 house in Westchester and $ 7,500 in monthly payments made to Lisa Percoco from the power company, Competitive Power Ventures, through a third - party conduit.

«Basically, he thought he was going to die in prison,» Linda Mangano's attorney, John Carman of Garden City, said, telling jurors: «Singh's honesty problem is relevant to your analysis of the case.»

In the afternoon, jurors saw documents problem from the Percocos» bank and mortgage accounts that shows the purchase of an $ 800,000 house in Westchester and $ 7,500 in monthly payments made to Lisa Percoco from the power company, Competitive Power Ventures, through a third - party conduit.

The judge, Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court, said a number of jurors» answers suggested that they had had a problem with what they had read about the former speaker.

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.

You are probably not surprised to learn that the Ninth Circuit punted on this part of the problem and will leave it to lower courts — the ones actually stuck dealing with juries — to figure out how on earth to ensure gay and lesbian jurors are not unfairly struck from a jury while not accidentally requiring those same jurors to out themselves.

The problem with this technology at this point though is the intrusive nature of it: you must convince a judge to let jurors wear special glasses or other hardware to make it work.

That solves part of the problem, in that you know you can't raise a Batson challenge unless the struck juror is obviously and voluntarily out.

The Chief Judge recognized that there has always been a problem in patent litigation in that the average jurors on patent cases are simply not familiar with the intricacies of patent law and that educating them is a burden for the federal judges that handle patent cases.

Put a different way, the root of the problem is that jurors tend to believe that punitive damages are not deductible, even though they are.

Despite anecdotal evidence of jurors misbehaving when using the Internet and social media (for instance, the recent article on Slaw English Court Jails Juror Who Used Internet Search), a recent survey of members of the U.S. federal judiciary reveals that the problem appears less widespread than many assume.