juries

February 21, 2017 (Fault Lines)– There is a strange intersection on the Venn diagram of political beliefs for those who support jury nullification. It’s one of those very few issues on which pot-smoking Bernie bros and...

February 14, 2017 (Fault Lines) – If you’ve never served on a jury, then you might not know that jurors get paid. No, it’s not very much money; it’s usually far less than minimum wage. It’s...

November 15, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Ed. Note: After the fascinating reverse Batson question arose, should a criminal defense lawyer use peremptory challenges to strike jurors based on race if it was in the defendant’s interest,...

November 15, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Ed. Note: After the fascinating reverse Batson question arose, should a criminal defense lawyer use peremptory challenges to strike jurors based on race if it was in the defendant’s interest,...

October 31, 2016 (Fault Lines) — OJ Simpson. Casey Anthony. George Zimmerman. Juries, and jurors, tend to get a bad rap anytime they issue a two word verdict that the public doesn’t agree with. Mostly this is...

August 5, 2016 (Fault Lines) — My co-contributor, Andrew Fleischman, recently wrote about a Georgia statute that appears to overcome some of the prosecutor’s immunity. This in turn led him to ask a broader question: Why...

August 4, 2016 (Fault Lines) — A group of researchers took the task of analyzing whether showing videos in slow motion rather than normal speed are likely to favor the outcome of jury trials in favor...

August 3, 2016 (Fault Lines) — There are lots of people in favor of prosecutorial immunity. Prosecutors, for instance. And insurance adjusters for the government. And judges who used to be prosecutors. Elsewhere, the doctrine is...

June 29, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Conservatives argue that it’s morally wrong to require a business to provide money to pay for insurance that may support contraception. After all, to some people, contraception is murder, because preventing...

May 27, 2016 (Mimesis Law) – The criminal justice machinery nowadays begins with an investigation and winds its way to punishment.* Once the punishment is complete, aside from some states that disqualify felons from certain privileges,...