Word: juror
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said the juror, the tape was "basically what convicted them." Some other evidence that legal experts -- including a defense attorney -- thought weighed heavily: Koon's assertion that he wanted to "break bones" to get King to submit, Powell's laughter when he called an ambulance and "war stories" told to fellow officers, and King's appearance on the stand. King did not appear to be the PCP-crazed monster that Koon had described...
...jurors, eight men and four women, are volunteers. A mailing to 6,000 residents netted about 300 willing to face the pressure and the prospect of being sequestered for a couple of months. The one black woman placed her child with relatives for the duration. The one black man would have been dismissed by defense lawyers. To their astonishment, Judge John Davies blocked them, citing a 1991 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that prohibits exclusion based on race. One juror is Hispanic and the other nine are white, in a city where the population is more than 60% minority. Defense attorney...
...With high profile cases, the defense gets a unique opportunity to look at each and every juror, Naiburg said. "Also a high profile case tells the jurors that this is important. They exercise more concern in their decision--and that's pro-defense...
Certainly lawyers must have the right to oppose selection of a jury member who would be unfairly biased against his or her side, but the extent to which attorneys are permitted to veto inclusion of potential jurors by using "peremptory" challenges must be limited. Such opposition is not based on clear possibilities of bias on the part of the potential juror, but to a non-"cause" related reason...
These disqualifications must be supported by a "neutral explanation" and cannot simply be a factor of the potential juror's race. But improper disqualifications still occur that prevent cases from being heard by an impartial jury of the defendant's peers...