Jury Selection In Litigation – Preparing For Voir Dire, Identifying Bias, Leveraging Stikes - Court Procedure
Jury selection, by its nature, forces attorneys to assume things about jurors based on incomplete information.
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Jury selection, by its nature, forces attorneys to assume things about jurors based on incomplete information.
In February, the Colorado Supreme Court held a lengthy public hearing on a proposed rule change that would make it more difficult to remove jurors of color from criminal trials for reasons that, while not explicitly racial, may still correlate with their race.
Darrell Brooks, the man accused of driving an SUV through the Waukesha Christmas parade, will be defending himself in front of an all-white jury. Brooks is African American.
The peremptory striking of a Black juror by a prosecutor who couldn’t provide the trial court with an acceptable race-neutral reason for the dismissal constituted a substantive violation of the defendant’s constitutional right to equal protection, a divided North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled. In the high court’s Feb. 11 order, Justice Robin Hudson wrote ...
In 1985, James Batson, still smarting from a failed appeal in the Kentucky Supreme Court bidding to overturn burglary and stolen goods convictions, brought his case to the United States