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The city government moved their offices from the County–City Building in 1962; the building was renamed the King County Courthouse in August of that year. [4] Modernization efforts in 1967 added air conditioning and heavily modified the appearance of the building.
The Superior Court of Washington for King County (more commonly, the King County Superior Court) is the largest trial court in Washington state. It is based at the King County Courthouse, 516 Third Avenue, in downtown Seattle, Washington. It also operates a juvenile facility and a Regional Justice Center in Kent, southeast of Seattle.
Jury selection is the selection of the people who will serve on a jury during a jury trial. The group of potential jurors (the "jury pool,” also known as the venire) is first selected from among the community using a reasonably random method. Jury lists are compiled from voter registrations and driver license or ID renewals.
This is the first time King County has been listed in the annual report. According to the report, the county is listed as a judicial hellhole due to unfair group trials, allowing lesser s
The point is whether jurors will perceive themselves to be at risk," U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw the defamation trials, wrote in a ruling last year.
A struck jury is a multi-step process of selecting a jury from a pool. First potential jurors are eliminated for hardship. Second jurors are eliminated for cause by conducting voir dire until there is a pool available that is exactly the size of the final jury (including required alternates) plus the number of peremptory challenges available to each side.
Sethy Seam, 43, has served roughly 25 years for his participation in the robbery and murder of Harold King Sr. in Davidson County, a crime committed when he was 16. In prison, he took academic and ...
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]