Sentences with phrase «with potential jurors»

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

In Formal Opinion 2012 - 2, it said that an attorney may view publicly available social media postings for the purpose of evaluating a potential juror, but the attorney may not «communicate» with the potential juror any more than he could have before the advent of social media.

Not exact matches

The names are included on a questionnaire for potential jurors, to help prosecutors and defense lawyers assess whether jurors have any relationships with the people named that could prevent the jurors from being impartial.

After Silver's lawyers complained to the judge that Bharara was contaminating the grand jury and potential trial jurors with his comments, Caproni criticized the prosecutor, saying he went too far.

Prospective jurors in the upcoming federal criminal trial of Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to Cuomo, are being asked to note any potential conflicts with dozens of individuals whose names or testimony may be part of corruption case.

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.

And even where potential jurors are unemployed, they're still worried that jury duty could interfere with their job search.

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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.

Now, he is not to be confused with founder Kenneth Lay, whom potential jurors credited in questionnaires as being «the biggest lying crook of all.»

He provides information that potential jurors need to know to make it through voir dire, such as that disclosing a distrust of law enforcement, disagreement with the laws, -LSB-...]

He provides information that potential jurors need to know to make it through voir dire, such as that disclosing a distrust of law enforcement, disagreement with the laws, and so on during voir dire will almost certainly assure an individual friendly to the defendant will be eliminated from the jury.

The American Bar Association in April of this year issued Ethics Opinion 466 stating that a lawyer may passively review a juror or potential juror's public presence on the Internet without violating Rule 3.5 (b) which prohibits ex parte communications with a juror.

Voir dire in those states allows the attorneys on both sides to ensure that jurors with potential bias are not seated in the case.

Attorneys should be especially wary with respect to sitting and potential jurors, as two local New York bar associations opine that such unintended contact may technically amount to an ethical violation.

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.

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

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.

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