An ABC TV affiliate in Fresno, Calif., announced on Sunday that one of its top executives is quitting because of comments he made during jury selection in a carjacking case.
A juror in England was dismissed from a panel hearing a sex abuse case last week because she discussed details of the case on the social networking site Facebook.
A juror deliberating in the federal case against Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens reportedly lied when she told the judge that her father died and she needed to be excused.
A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered Chevron to take down sponsored Google links to a website providing the company’s spin on an incident that resulted in the death…
The federal judge overseeing the corruption trial of Sen. Ted Stevens refused to dismiss a juror yesterday despite a note from the foreman that called her “rude, disrespectful and unreasonable.”
Federal grand jurors have indicted a white supremacist in Virginia on charges that he posted the identity of a juror and urged others to cause him harm.
Jurors in a medical malpractice case against a prominent Washington state physician accused of abusing his minor patients weren’t told at trial about an important issue concerning the plaintiffs’ damages.…
A Las Vegas judge refused a defense motion to dismiss 27 potential jurors in the armed robbery trial of O.J. Simpson because one possible juror made an angry comment about…
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