Sentences with phrase «written about jurors»
There has been a decent amount written about jurors» use of Twitter in courts, and also about whether journalists should be allowed to report from the courtroom using Twitter.
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The jurors — filmmaker Emily Yoshida, film critic Justin Chang, and IMDb founder Col Needham — also singled out director Carly Stone's comedy «The New Romantic,» about a college girl who starts dating older men, and presented a special jury prize for writing to Nijla Mu» min's «Jinn,» about a 17 - year - old girl whose mother suddenly converts to Islam.
She has served on film panels for the Chicago Public Library, been a juror at film festivals, and writes about film for Naperville Magazine.
Juror Andrianna Campbell wrote this about the work submitted: «The photographs chosen play with the body, subjectivity and the place of both in relationship to photography.
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.
Combined, these jurors have decades of experience looking at, writing about, curating, and creating art, so their eyes are trained to spot true artistic talent.»
In a memorandum to district court judges, Judge Julie Robinson, the committee chair, wrote that the model instructions were developed to address the increasing incidence of jurors using such technology to conduct research on the Internet or communicate with others about cases, which has «resulted in mistrials, exclusion of jurors, and imposition of fines.»
Certainly, much has been written about the so - called «CSI Effect» on juries — the debate over whether movie and television crime dramas instill in jurors unreasonable expectations about evidence collection.
Juror Dennis DeMartin, who wrote in a book about how he drank three vodkas one night during the trial to help him determine whether the defendant was unfit to drive when he crashed his car and killed someone.
«The case is one of a rising number nationally in which jurors have used iPhones, BlackBerrys and home computers to gather and send information about cases, undermining judges and jury trials,» writes Courier - Journal reporter Andrew Wolfson.
Evan Brown's Internet Cases blog flagged an interesting case over the weekend coming out of Morris County, N.J. Brown writes that the courthouse in that county provides wireless internet access, and during jury selection, plaintiffs counsel in a medical malpractice case began using his laptop to «Google» potential jurors to gain additional information about them.
We've written here about the challenges judges and lawyers face from jurors» tweets and jurors» blogs.
Answer: Doing so will probably get you kicked off of the jury, plus at least a lecture from the judge about violating your oath as a juror, a $ 250.00 fine, and a court order to go home and write a five - page essay on the importance of the Sixth Amendment.
After the judge admonished jurors not to discuss the case verbally or in writing, Wilson posted an entry on his blog about the case.
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly writes this week about the divide among lawyers on monitoring social media use and Internet activities by jurors.
The Committee on Court Administration and Case Management «developed these instructions to address the increasing incidence of juror use of such devices as cellular telephones or computers to conduct research on the Internet or communicate with others about cases,» wrote Judge Julie Robinson, committee chair, in a memo to district judges.
If a juror has questions about these instructions, he writes that question down and the bailiff messengers it to the bench.
Given the possibility of jurors who might ignore the law as written, it's not surprising when picking jurors for a trial, lawyers — whose existence is dependent on an orderly society — will ask about nullification, usually in the slightly roundabout way:
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.
There have also been concerns about jurors doing online research, «visiting» a crime scene on Google Earth or following Twitter or blog feeds written by reporters or others during a trial.