Sentences with phrase «striking jurors»

In the ongoing case, the plaintiff has suggested an alternative in the event the judge rules against the possibility of striking jurors.

Anyone interested in the process of choosing and striking jurors (in the U.S.), through the process of voir dire, this is a fairly comprehensive article on the topic.

Judge Caproni interviewed each prospective juror, and made it clear that she would not strike jurors if they said they could set aside what they had heard, and consider the case fairly and with an open mind.

Marco Bellocchio's «Vincere» has its admirers, particularly in the European critical community, as does Andrea Arnold's «Fish Tank» — though the former's biographic sweep and the latter's grim British social realism may strike the jurors as a little too familiar.

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.

We don't get to strike jurors until voir dire, that's why i asked.

Each «round» consists of each party or the party's attorney asking questions of the prospective jurors, followed by the judge asking each party or attorney if he or she wishes to strike any juror.

Jurors frequently like to keep occupied during long labourious cross examinations by opposing counsel, when boredom strikes jurors sometimes prefer to leaf through their hardcopies — a nice way to pass the time!

For example, one issue that commonly recurs is how to preserve an objection either when the court denies a motion to strike a juror for cause, or grants the other side's.

Not exact matches

Although a federal agent told jurors he had been investigating Karpeles, U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest later struck much of that testimony as improper.

Liberal 9th Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt, who struck down California's Proposition 8 as well as gay marriage bans in Nevada and Idaho, and wrote a ruling that barred jurors from being removed because of sexual orientation, has died at 87.

The jurors wrote in a note Monday that they'd struck out after considering «the facts and the evidence with open minds.»

Adam's lawyer Christopher Conniff struck the same theme, telling jurors the charges were based on nothing more sinister than Dean trying to do what all fathers do — help find his kid a job.

One of Mr. Silver's lawyers, Steven F. Molo, moved to strike the prospective juror for cause, but the judge declined.

Lee J. Cobb is particularly striking as Juror # 3, in the role of his career.

«The jurors were struck by Linder's inventive consideration of the latent role of presence through layers of formalist modernist histories and interplay of props and choreography.»

The jurors were struck by Linder's inventive consideration of the latent role of presence through layers of formalist modernist histories and interplay of props and choreography,» wrote Mika Yoshitake.

Pieces were selected by Juror Alex Paik, a Brooklyn - based installation artist and director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, an organization of artist - run spaces.

About her selection of the artwork to feature on the cover, juror and Hammer Museum senior curator Anne Ellegood wrote that she was «struck by the rawness and honesty of Maja Ruznic's paintings.

2007 A bell is a cup until it is struck, PUNCH + SOIL International Juried Exhibition, Punch Gallery, Seattle, WA, Juror: Eric Fredericksen, Director, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA The Hook Up, New American Art Union, Portland, Oregon, curated by Jesse Hayward New American Talent: 22, arthouse at The Jones Center, Austin, TX (catalogue) A Simple Complex Redux, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA, curated by John O'Brien

The exhibition on display at EFA presents a selection of several dozen of the most striking submissions as selected by two juror's reviews in 2008 and 2009 as well as more recent projects that have been uploaded to the site.

New state rule deems that a presumptively invalid reason for juror strike

Duty Room Handles various matters including motions for default judgment, decisions concerning applications for warrants to search, applications by the Clerk to strike improper or incomplete pleadings, motions to dismiss filed by the prosecutor pursuant to Criminal Rule 48, cognovit notes, motions to excuse jurors, probable cause hearings, and performing civil wedding ceremonies.

Once you've gone through your motions to strike for cause, there will probably be jurors that the judge wouldn't strike for cause.

Because you don't want to waste your precious preemptive strikes on biased jurors.

The reversal was based in part on the trial court's failure to strike five jurors for cause after it was revealed in voir dire that the jurors had relationships with plaintiffs» counsel.

In Virginia, the opposing lawyers are permitted to ask direct questions to potential jurors before exercising their handful or two of peremptory jury strikes.

The law states that once the defense has made an initial showing that jurors are being struck just because they are black and may sympathize with a black defendant, the prosecution must show that there were other legitimate reasons.

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.

That jurors don't know that strikes me as just more evidence that citizens called to do their civil duty aren't respected.

Many criminal defense lawyers, she says, «maintain that the prosecution practice of using peremptory strikes to remove black jurors remains widespread.»

But something about the witness struck him as familiar, the lawyer told the jurors.

The app also assists lawyers in the decisions on whether to utilize peremptory or «for cause» strikes on each juror, and in tracking what opposing counsel has chosen.

That was a preremtory strike, she acknowledged, that she could have used against another juror if potential bias against her were not in play.

Most states allow each side 6 challenges or strikes to eliminate unwanted jurors for any reason (other than race).

The suggestion is to take away advocates» ability to exercise «peremptory strikes» (i.e., the ability to reject a fixed number of potential jurors without stating any reason).

We were able to get a few jurors struck for cause in each case as they admitted that they could not award money damages for injury cases.

They also have unlimited «for cause strikes,» which are when a juror is biased in some way.

For instance, a juror who reveals during voir dire that she is the sister of the plaintiff in a personal injury case may be struck «for cause» if the law or court rules prohibit blood relatives of the parties from sitting on juries that hear their cases.

A juror may be struck «for cause,» because a law or court rule prevents that person from serving as a juror, or a party may use a «peremptory strike,» in which the party may dismiss a certain juror without saying why.

Once the judge has asked each party or attorney if he wants to strike any prospective juror «for cause,» and any jurors who are stricken for cause leave the jury box, the judge will ask each party in turn if he or she wants to use a «peremptory strike» or «peremptory challenge» to remove any juror.

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.

These strikes may only be used if legal cause exists to remove one or more of the jurors.

Also, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that in criminal cases, prosecutors can not use peremptory strikes to eliminate potential jurors based on the juror's race, ethnicity, or gender.

Once an entire jury is seated and no party has tried to strike any of the potential jurors for cause or by using a peremptory strike, the jury is generally sworn in and the trial moves on to the next step, often preliminary instructions or opening statements.

Assist the attorney with the entire voir dire process (e.g., taking notes, striking, and selection of jurors);

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.

In dealing with potential jurors, the peremptory strike plays that vital role.

Thaler v. Haynes involves a defense objection under Batson v. Kentucky (pdf)(1986) to the prosecution's peremptory strike of a potential juror; Batson forbids striking potential jurors from a panel solely based on race.

The state trial court judge upheld the strike because the prosecution provided a race - neutral reason, but that judge did not observe the potential juror's behavior.