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Real-life courtroom drama and a popular crime-solving TV show intersected on Friday as a New York judge postponed opening statements in an attempted murder trial for five hours so a…
Members of a jury pool who ignored a court order and gossiped amongst themselves about the high-profile defendant in a first-degree murder case created a situation in which a Florida…
When former Bolingbrook, Ill., police officer Drew Peterson goes on trial next week for the murder of his third wife, the jurors will come from a pool first selected in…
Corrected: An unusual mistrial declared in a high-profile murder case this week, over comments made by a juror on a Facebook page roughly a year ago, offer a cautionary example…
A lawyer working pro bono for two minor children who sued their father for wrongful death damages over his strangulation murder of their mother asked a California jury to award…
At My Shingle, Washington, D.C., solo Carolyn Elefant takes various state bar associations to task for their uniformly similar recommendations that lawyers get their clients’…
A federal judge in Chicago imposed the maximum $1,000 fine Tuesday on an Illinois man who left a voicemail message for another judge in the middle of a Medicare fraud…
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Lawyers may research potential and sitting jurors on Facebook and other social media sites, but communications with jurors should be avoided, according to a new ethics opinion.
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