Since 2009, Julian Heicklen has been handing out material urging prospective jurors to vote their conscience at various courthouses. He says he often holds a “Jury Info” sign to help…
Some lawyers, surreptitiously searching sites to uncover the personal details of potential jurors, are instigating a privacy debate and raising questions about whether the online vetting process has enough court…
At least three jurors who acquitted a Cleveland teen are so angry about the prosecution that they plan to give the defendant their $100 jury pay if he obtains a…
When a murder trial last year that was expected to take four weeks continued nearly two weeks longer, putting a Nevada judge’s vacation at risk, the judge resolved the problem…
The chief judge of Washtenaw County in Ann Arbor, Mich., had heard a lot about the so-called CSI effect—said to increase jurors’ expectations that technology can solve crimes with lightning…
A storm is gathering over a Florida judge’s order banning distribution of jury “education” material outside Orange and Osceola courthouses by a national nonprofit group.
You might think the Secret Service agents would have been a giveaway, let alone the phalanx of staff and extra security that poured in through a side door at the…
Corrected: The story was bound to generate a lot of buzz: Boston’s jury commissioner had refused to release Sal the cat from jury duty after his owners sought to disqualify…
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