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Jury tampering is the crime of unduly attempting to influence the composition or decisions of a jury during the course of a trial. The means by which this crime could be perpetrated can include attempting to discredit potential jurors to ensure they will not be selected for duty.
Juror misconduct is when the law of the court is violated by a member of the jury while a court case is in progression or after it has reached a verdict. [1] Misconduct can take several forms: Communication by the jury with those outside of the trial/court case. Those on the outside include “witnesses, attorneys, bailiffs, or judges about the ...
Jury consultancy is a growing industry [citation needed] and one which uses current technologies in innovative ways [citation needed]. However, this type of investigation makes up a relatively small proportion of Jury Research, the balance of which is generally conducted by psychologists, criminologists and other interested social scientists.
In jurisprudence, prosecutorial misconduct or prosecutorial overreach is "an illegal act or failing to act, on the part of a prosecutor, especially an attempt to sway the jury to wrongly convict a defendant or to impose a harsher than appropriate punishment." [1] It is similar to selective prosecution. Prosecutors are bound by a set of rules ...
In English law, embracery was an offence both at common law and by statute, punishable by fine and imprisonment.As a statutory offence it dates back to 1360. The offence is complete, whether any verdict has been given or not, and whether the verdict is in accordance with the weight of evidence or otherwise.
The lawyers for convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh have filed a motion for a new trial, alleging they have evidence of jury tampering. The Murdaugh trial's alleged jury tampering and clerk Rebecca ...
Two of the seven defendants facing a federal fraud trial in Minnesota, where a juror was allegedly offered a cash bribe in exchange for an acquittal, flouted a court mandate to hand back a list ...
Donald Trump's guilty verdict let his supporters to post threats of violence and attempt to dox jurors in the hush money case.