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The challenge of asking for damages
By Sylvia Hsieh Dolan Media Newswires BOSTON, MA — When Carl Bettinger stepped up to the jury box in the summer of 2007 to make closing arguments in a nursing home abuse case, he reminded the jury that his client was not just an old and sick woman, as the defense claimed. She had been […]
THE DARK SIDE: I really do love an acquittal
My friend Nicole got called for jury duty a little while back.
05-2007, 05-2008 & 09-1291 U.S. v. Taylor
Criminal Procedure Voir dire; equal protection When a defendant raises an equal protection challenge to the prosecutor’s peremptory strikes, the court may only consider the prosecutor’s original justification for striking a juror. “In this case, when the Batson challenge was made, the only reason offered by the prosecutor to justify striking Watson was her response […]
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