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Jury
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Gordon Thompson DUI & Criminal Attorney Blog
Aggravated DUI Jury Trial | Juror Strikes for Cause
The short answer: The Arizona Court of Appeals upheld two aggravated DUI convictions from a DUI jury trial even though several jurors had overheard the defendant’s mother in the courthouse…
A Winning Tip
Build Juror-Compelling Stories: Use the "Boy Meets Girl" Formula
Facts are boring. Stories are riveting. Facts put jurors to sleep. Stories keep them awake. Facts are essential to the case; stories are what make those facts persuasive. Each case…
Employment Law Lookout
Cultural Flashpoints Vidcast: Conversations That Matter
Episode 06: From Voir Dire to Verdict: Jury Consultants in Flashpoints Cases Hosted by Sam Schwartz-Fenwick with special guest Lynn Kappelman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL5lLnyfiTg What happens when a trial involves issues that…
Zalma on Insurance
Unwise for a Appellant to Represent Himself.
By Barry Zalma
Inadequately Briefed Issues Defeats Appeal Post 4852 Issues on Appeal Must be Adequately Briefed In Emy Ojekwe v. Connecticut Transit District Consortium, No. AC 47389, Court of Appeals of Connecticut…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
AI in the Jury Box: Promise, Limits and the Role of Human Deliberation
Last fall, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law reportedly used ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok as jurors in a mock trial based on a real juvenile…
A Lawyer Writes
Juries: what next?
Government plans to reduce the availability of jury trial in England and Wales are likely to be amended, the justice secretary hinted yesterday. Asked about the Courts and Tribunals Bill,…
Your Trial Message
Counter-Rehabilitate: 6 Ways to Make Your Cause Challenge Stick
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm:Every attorney who has conducted voir dire has likely lived through this scenario: After carefully and comprehensively developing a clear reason why a potential juror cannot be…
Massachusetts Chapter 93A Insights
Massachusetts Appeals Court Clarifies Interplay Between Jury Findings and Chapter 93A Damages Determinations
By Abby Druhot, David G. Thomas, Angela C. Bunnell, Diana A. Balluku
DigiNovations, Inc. brought a nine-count complaint in Massachusetts Superior Court against its former executive vice president, Wales, former employee Mackos, and the competing company they founded, Endeavor Films, Inc. After…
Simple Justice
Leave Jurors Out Of It
First, the assumption was that the Clancy deadlock was between the men and women on the jury, because it had to be women who would side with the defendant who…
EvidenceProf Blog
Third Circuit finds no reversible error in judge telling deadlocked jurors, “the note is you are unable to come to a unanimous decision, but you have to.”
By Colin Miller
As we just saw with the Lindsay Clancy case, juries can deadlock, leading to a hung jury and a mistrial. So, what should happen when the jury sends a note…