Sentences with phrase «prospective jurors»

Each lawyer gets to cross off the names of prospective jurors until six or seven remain.

Finding prospective jurors who can keep an open mind both about issues at the innocence / guilty phase and at the sentence phases, jurors who can stand up against community prejudice.

A whopping third of responding judges thought using social media to research prospective jurors was unnecessary.

Under the new approach, judges are asking open - ended questions designed to encourage prospective jurors to express their feelings and beliefs.

After the government and defense reviewed those questionnaires, a number of prospective jurors were removed by agreement of the parties.

In Formal Opinion 466, the ABA also opened the door for lawyers to conduct internet searches on prospective jurors as well as other parties.

Research by Judge Gregory E. Mize (retired D.C. Superior Court trial judge and co-chair of the D.C. Jury Project) revealed that while 28 % of prospective jurors in both civil and criminal cases failed to respond affirmatively to questions in open court, 10 % of those «silent ones» in civil cases and 17.5 % in criminal cases later revealed biases that yielded a cause strike in follow - up individual interviews.

The state Legislature wants the names of residents receiving welfare and unemployment benefits to be added to the pool of prospective jurors for federal court trials.

The signs are strategically placed so prospective jurors arriving at the city's downtown Judiciary Square and Archives Metro stops pass right by them as they report for duty, and that has prosecutors and judges worried about their possible impact on jury deliberations.

Although the trial court in this case used an alternate procedure for checking whether prospective jurors had such a disqualifying relationship, the Georgia Court of Appeals held that such a modified procedure is impermissible when, as is the case here, a party requests that qualification be done during voir dire and in open court.

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.

The judge also asked prospective jurors to name two people they admired and Oprah and Barack Obama came out on top.

The Court today holds that the State may not use its peremptory challenges to strike black prospective jurors on this basis without violating the Constitution.

Upon satisfying an initial curiosity about jury pay in Tennessee (a modest $ 11 per day, it turns out), I turned to consider how super-famous people like T - Swizzle are received as prospective jurors.

The lawyer for indicted state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D - Hollis) wants to know if prospective jurors may be swayed by the high - profile nature of his client's federal corruption trial when it kicks off in less than two months now that the presiding judge has refused to throw out the charges.

And «This Is Us» — cited by one prospective juror because the show features adopted children, and by another — the grandmother of triplets — because the show also features three characters born on the same day.

Voir dire is the questioning of prospective jurors by the judge and attorneys in court.

Peremptory strikes are most often used, therefore, to dismiss prospective jurors whom one party believes will be biased and therefore unable to evaluate the case fairly.

More than 100 prospective jurors filled out questionnaires yesterday, as prosecutors and defense lawyers sought to identify potential bias or conflicts that might disqualify people from serving next week in the corruption trial of ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

Here, the particular jury selection process employed by Kent County made social or economic factors relevant to whether an otherwise qualified prospective juror would be excused from service; and because such social or economic factors disproportionately impact African Americans in Kent County, such factors produced systematic exclusion.

In a 5 - 2 opinion by Justice Mariano - Florentino Cuéllar, the court concludes «the totality of relevant facts» — including that the jury ultimately included three African - Americans and that one challenged African - American prospective juror was replaced by another whom the prosecutor accepted — did not raise «an inference of discriminatory intent for the prosecutor's strikes.»

Billboard advocating jury nullification concerns local prosecutors Prospective jurors who take the subway to D.C. Superior Court and exit near the National Building Museum see these words: «Good jurors nullify bad laws» and «You -LSB-...]

One prospective juror named Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first prime minister; another said William Wilberforce, an English politician who fought against the slave trade.

During two weeks of jury selection, Judge Samuel Feng repeatedly told prospective jurors that immigration, sanctuary cities, gun control and their political views should not enter into their deliberations.

He sat impassively at a table with his court - appointed lawyers while a prosecutor from the district attorney's office questioned the panel of prospective jurors sitting in the spectators» section of the courtroom.

The defense has asked Wood to prepare prospective jurors for evidence that Adam is adopted and has an autistic child.

Manhattan federal Judge Valerie Caproni rejected five prospective jurors after prosecutors and defense attorneys objected to answers they gave on questionnaires they filled out earlier in the week.

It could be difficult for ex-Assembly S peaker Sheldon Silver to find an unbiased jury for his corruption trial, with prospective jurors saying Silver had «dirty dealings throughout his career» and...

The hands of prospective jurors shot up.

Mike Jarboe, an editor at the Times Union, was summoned to jury duty in Albany County and listened as other prospective jurors were questioned by Acting State Supreme Court Justice Dan Lamont in a drug trial.

District Local Civil Rule 47.2 allows the use of the Internet to research jurors and prospective jurors within the confines of information which is accessible to the public and information is available and accessible to the public so long as it does not result in send an access request or other contact.

These are actual responses from actual prospective jurors in this case who took time to carefully and thoughtfully write out their answers,» Petrocelli said in the filing, Hays reports.

In state court, the attorneys conduct the voir dire to eighteen or more prospective jurors depending upon the judge's preference.

Voir dire is the latin name for the process by which lawyers vette prospective jurors.

The defense, for example, wanted to eliminate one prospective juror who had made comments about Mr. Silver's having engaged in «dirty dealings,» as one of the assemblyman's lawyers, Justin V. Shur, said in court.

Voltaire's software can search through billions of data points, including public records and social media posts, and pull up all kinds of information on prospective jurors.

One of the challenges facing trial lawyers and criminal lawyers in Massachusetts is to train themselves in the best methods for interacting with prospective jurors in a respectful manner which most effectively elicits truthful responses.

547, 427 N.E. 2d 754 (1981)(under State Constitution, trial judge properly rejected white defendant's attempted peremptory challenge of black prospective juror).

More than 100 prospective jurors filled out questionnaires, as lawyers sought to identify conflicts that might disqualify them from serving in the corruption trial of the former Assembly speaker.

Of the 466 judges who responded, 120 said they prohibit researching prospective jurors on social media during jury selection.

In People v. Reed, an African - American defendant was sentenced to death after the prosecutor had used five of his first eight peremptory challenges to strike five of the six African - American prospective jurors.

Thus, lawyers planning to use technology to supplement their arguments or display and summarize evidence should question prospective jurors in voir dire about their feelings regarding technology.