Sentences with phrase «research potential jurors»

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.

One court has approved of using new technologies to research potential jurors.

It makes sense to research potential jurors, and social media makes it easier than ever.

In a high - stakes copyright fight pitting two Silicon Valley tech giants — Oracle and Google — against each other earlier this year, the presiding judge found the dangers of researching potential jurors on the internet outweighed any potential benefit in that case.

Not exact matches

While acknowledging the lack of a Supreme Court rule on the extent to which a party is required to research a potential or actual juror, the court stated:

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.

Social media now allows us to find out what people are thinking; in the US they can do research on the potential jurors before the trial.

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.

A judge in Montgomery County, Maryland, denied a request to allow research of potential jurors because it could have a chilling effect on jury service if they knew they were going to be Googled as soon as they walked into the courthouse.

Google and Oracle agreed on March 31, 2016, to the ban on all Internet research on potential and impaneled jurors until trial is complete.

The government's avowed determination to eradicate myths about supposedly true victim behaviour, in spite of there being no UK research evidence of a negative impact by such myths on the conviction rate, makes a stark contrast with their apparent insouciance about the potentially negative impact on the conviction rate as a cumulative result of potential jurors reading lurid media accounts of the exposure of false rape claims.