Winning a jury trial requires effective presentation of the evidence and argument. But let’s face it: You’re a lot more likely to win if the jurors like and trust you.
A jury has been selected to hear the inquest into the death of a suspect while in Milwaukee police custody.
The overall size of the United States’ top 10 jury verdicts rose again in 2012.
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether existing precedent should be overruled to require a jury to decide facts which increase a mandatory minimum sentence.
A bill that would prohibit discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered individuals in the federal jury selection process has been introduced in the Senate.
A jury has convicted a 45-year-old man of murdering a woman whose body was found in La Crosse.
A jury has convicted a man of killing a 93-year-old woman in northern Wisconsin in a case authorities said had satanic overtones.
Don’t wear a pinky ring. Don’t wear monogrammed shirts. Don’t drive your fancy sports car to the courthouse. These are some of the rules lawyers follow if they don’t want to alienate jurors on Day 1.
A runaway juror returned to Milwaukee from a Mexican getaway and headed back to court. But this time, it was to face the judge.
In an effort to deter jurors from using social media and smartphones to communicate about or conduct research on the case on which they serve, a Judicial Conference committee has updated federal model jury instructions.
Jurors who have a hard time putting their Internet habits on hold during jury service need strong guidance from trial judges, said a jury research analyst.
As jurors demand slicker, speedier, sound bite-like presentations of trial evidence, lawyers are hiring visual artists, computer graphic designers and illustrators to transform piles of documents into light, sound and images.
A study has revealed that the racial makeup of the pool from which juries are selected influences conviction rates – and that having even one African-American member in the pool from which a jury is drawn nearly eliminates the difference.
Many years ago, a former Alabama congressman told me the following story:
Juries routinely dismiss expert testimony due to credibility problems, incomprehensibility, or simply because it is cancelled out by another expert’s testimony.
A Dane County jury has found a former day-care provider guilty on one of seven counts of injuring children in her care.
Are attorney jurors toxic to a trial?
MERRILL, Wis. (AP) — A man accused of killing his mother surprised those in a Lincoln County courtroom when he changed his story on the witness stand about how she died. Chase Boruch told jurors that he staged a car crash at Moraine Lake in June 2010 to make his mother’s death look like an [...]
Rather than just reading 19 pages of jury instructions to the people who would decide if Jesus Gonzalez was guilty of murder, Milwaukee Judge Richard Sankovitz mixed in some visuals.
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) – Officials say a juror was dismissed in the murder-for-hire trial in Waukesha County Wednesday because he was drunk when he showed up for court. Because there are alternate jurors, his dismissal won’t affect the proceeding. Sheriff’s Detective Steve Pederson tells WMTJ-TV that if the man had been stopped while driving a [...]
The most recent request for more money to pay jurors has prompted a search for ways to streamline jury management in Milwaukee County’s Children’s Court.
LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — A father in La Crosse County won’t face criminal charges in the death of his 15-month-old daughter. A rare death inquest hearing was held into the Dec. 28 drowning at the town of Campbell home. The father told investigators he was giving his daughter a bath and left the room [...]
One of the great advantages I have gained from my twitter account is a vast amount of information about juries, jury issues and jury problems.
Jurors in California face the possibility of jail time if they violate a new rule prohibiting them from engaging in social media during trial or deliberations.
My friend Nicole got called for jury duty a little while back.
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Boston – Mimi Coffey, a veteran criminal defense lawyer in Fort Worth, Texas, thinks prosecutors have an unfair advantage in the courtroom.
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