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- 1From:Wisconsin Law JournalByline: Derek Hawkins 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Case Name: United States of America v. Terrance Brasher Case No.: 18-1997 Officials: FLAUM, ROVNER, and SCUDDER, Circuit Judges. Focus: Jury Selection A...
- 2From:Reason (Vol. 50, Issue 3)IF YOU WANT to serve on a criminal jury, the most important rule is this: Say as little as possible, with your words, your body language, and your appearance. But why would you want to sit on a jury in the first...
- 3From:Maclean's (Vol. 131, Issue 4)In the days before the trial of Gerald Stanley, 750 people were summoned to the Alex Dillabough Centre in Battleford, Sask., potential jurors in the much-anticipated proceeding. One by one, according to people who were...
- 4From:Herizons (Vol. 32, Issue 1)As a result of protests following the outcome of the case involving the death of Indigenous youth Colten Boushie, Ottawa says it will improve the jury selection process. Boushie's assailant, Gerald Stanley, was found...
- 5From:Network WorldByline: Paul McNamara A woman from Ohio tells a Cleveland TV station that she has been summoned for jury nine times in the past 12 years. To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this...
- 6From:Men's Health (Vol. 16, Issue 5)GET TIME OFF FOR BAD BEHAVIOR--SOMEONE ELSE'S Jury duty. It's your civic obligation. It's also your chance to get some paid time off from work when you run out of vacation days. Here's how to land a courtside seat....
- 7From:Jet (Vol. 101, Issue 6)A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the civil rights convictions of Lemrick Nelson, Jr., 27, and Charles Price, 47, citing irregularities with jury selection and constitutional...
- 8From:Library Journal (Vol. 127, Issue 7)iJury, a partnership of Texas's Travis County and the Austin Public Library, moves the entire impaneling process--from qualification to trial assignment--online. The first such service in the nation, it eliminates the...
- 9From:MotheringA woman refuses jury duty because she is breastfeeding. And the unimaginable happens: Instead of having her decision quickly accepted, she finds herself harassed by court officials. In 1998, Siri Wright was summoned...
- 10From:Harper's Magazine (Vol. 287, Issue 1723)Excerpts from the transcripts of the jury-selection proceedings in the World Trade Center bombing case are presented. The excerpts include some of the excuses offered by the 5,000 people in the jury pool to avoid serving...
- 11From:New Statesman (Vol. 133, Issue 4693)A senior barrister was yesterday discharged from a murder trial jury after a judge said his presence might be prejudicial to the defendant. Judge George Bathurst-Norman said that the lawyer's knowledge of court...
- 12From:The Economist (Vol. 312, Issue 7610)Jury science Psychodrama TO WIN a court case in America, litigants may soon need good behavioural scientists as well as good lawyers. Some companies are using them to help their lawyers distinguish friendly from...
- 13From:Reason (Vol. 34, Issue 8)I WAS DISMISSED from the only jury on which I've ever been seated. To be fair, I asked for it. I was in my early 20s, and the case was about a fender bender on that greatest of all roads, the New Jersey Turnpike. (It...
- 14From:Newsweek (Vol. 161, Issue 22)Byline: Caroline Linton Will the jury's racial makeup decide George Zimmerman's fate? WHEN THE jury voted to acquit O.J. Simpson on October 3, 1995, of the double murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman,...
- 15From:National Review (Vol. 43, Issue 9)IN A relatively overlooked decision in early April, the Supreme Court effectively imposed racial quotas upon a critical part of the criminal-justice process--jury selection. Traditionally, in criminal trials, both...
- 16From:Insight on the News (Vol. 10, Issue 41)The system for jury selection favors the knowledgeable, the rich and the powerful. Lawyers rig the juries and criminal defendants are set free. Peremptory challenges and invasive voir dire should be abolished. A randomly...
- 17From:National Review (Vol. 45, Issue 10)The current system of American justice creates juries that consist of people whose qualifications, or lack of them, to judge their fellow humans are irrelevant. Where juries should be used is in the sentencing rather...
- 18From:GPGovernment plans to remove doctors' exemption from jury service will exacerbate the GP shortage, according to Dr Steve Cottam. The Lancashire GP is calling on the BMA to oppose the plans. Dr Cottam told GP: 'Compelling...
- 19From:The New Yorker (Vol. 81, Issue 45)Do you watch "The Apprentice"? Have you recently renewed your subscription to Martha Stewart Living? Do you think Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski was misunderstood? If so--and if you live in the greater Houston area--then...
- 20From:Harper's Magazine (Vol. 294, Issue 1765)McMahon advises new prosecutors to avoid picking people for juries who are intelligent. He also recommends avoiding African Americans, who he contends will be sympathetic to defendants. He made these remarks 1987, one...