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Court is in recess until 1:15 p.m., and prospective jurors will be called in for jury selection at 2 p.m. Donna Adelson co-counsel says he was ‘walled off’ from evidence in her son’s case
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A California prosecutor whose office is reviewing dozens of death penalty convictions over allegations of decades-old racial bias said Wednesday that she is weighing whether to retry another case ...
During voir dire, potential jurors are questioned by attorneys and the judge.It has been argued that voir dire is often ineffective at detecting juror bias. [1] Research shows that biographic information in minimal voir dire is not useful for identifying juror bias or predicting verdicts, while attitudinal questions in expanded voir dire can root out bias and predict case outcomes. [2]
Thomas Miller-El was charged with capital murder committed in the course of a robbery. After voir dire, Miller-El moved to strike the entire jury because the prosecution had used its peremptory challenges to strike ten of the eleven African-Americans who were eligible to serve on the jury. This motion was denied, and Miller-El was subsequently ...
Jury selection is expected to take about two days, with opening statements tentatively scheduled for Monday. Prosecutors have estimated their case will take six days to present to a jury and that ...
With jury selection starting Thursday in Hunter Biden’s trial on federal tax charges, his lawyers have proposed the judge ask potential jurors whether they have “strong negative views” about ...
The process of jury selection and managing voir dire is a key area of study for criminal trial attorneys. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] The Center for Jury Studies, [ 18 ] a project of the National Center for State Courts, has studied voir dire , as has The American Bar Association, [ 19 ] and summaries of research conducted on voir dire are freely ...