juries
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New Hampshire Does That Thing Where They Try to Make Jury Nullification the Law Again
Feb 21, 2017(Comments: 2)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... -
Chase Bank Takes Jury Duty Pay From D.C. Jurors
Feb 14, 2017(Comments: 0)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... -
Debate: Sorry, Defense Lawyers Shouldn’t be Racist Either
Nov 15, 2016(Comments: 5)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,... -
Debate: Duty To Defendant Comes Before Race
Nov 15, 2016(Comments: 9)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,... -
The Ammon Bundy Trial: This Is Why We Have Juries
Oct 31, 2016(Comments: 2)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... -
Juries Don’t Need To Decide Actual Innocence To Stop Prosecutor Misconduct
Aug 5, 2016(Comments: 5)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... -
Do Slow Motion Videos Sway Juries? New Research Points To Definitely Maybe
Aug 4, 2016(Comments: 1)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... -
Why Don’t We Let Juries Determine Actual Innocence?
Aug 3, 2016(Comments: 15)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... -
The Trilemma of The Religious Death Penalty Juror
Jun 29, 2016(Comments: 10)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... -
Should We Give Juries A Bigger Role in Sentencing?
May 27, 2016(Comments: 9)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,...