A Florida assistant public defender is asking a judge to poll jurors to determine whether lengthy deliberations contributed to a mood of grumpiness that influenced a guilty verdict in an…
A Harvard law student who’s a huge fan of Survivor has already parlayed his love of the reality television program into a prizewinning paper for a class on the American…
A Michigan judge overseeing the murder retrial of a comic store owner expressed outrage on Wednesday after a juror claimed her law firm employer planned to fire her because of…
Faced with the potential expense and inconvenience of having to look far afield for potential jurors unfamiliar with a high-profile child-murder case, a Pennsylvania judge came up with an innovative…
Federal jurors who convicted six of seven MS-13 gang members in a San Francisco racketeering case on Tuesday gathered after the trial to assess the lawyers’ work.
In what a prosecutor in Tarrant County, Texas, says is the first such matter of its kind there, a juror in a civil auto accident case has been held in…
Parking is going to be scarce for the next several years at a South Florida courthouse, as construction of a new facility eliminates a former parking lot.
A Manhattan juror who voted to convict two former Jenkens & Gilchrist partners in a tax shelter scheme never disclosed she was a suspended lawyer with an arrest record, according…
No one denies that Rosie, a New York therapy dog who works with witnesses in criminal cases, is very cute. However the defense lawyers of a man convicted of raping…
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