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...year-old man in a wheel-chair who said he had visited Jackson's Neverland Ranch as a child expressed disgust at discrimination lawsuits brought against local restaurants by a disabled man. Jury consultant Sarah Murray thought that could presage a lack of sympathy for Jackson's accuser. That juror is "somebody who doesn't like it when people play the victim," says Murray. Another potential obstacle for the prosecution is a self-assured great-grandmother, 79, who proclaims herself a "Jeopardy freak" and a fan of her grandchildren's attempts at moonwalking. "If she's a rock...
...companies that have prohibited employees from taking cam phones into sensitive research and production facilities, to prevent corporate espionage. Schools are banning them to halt cheating, since students have been nabbed shooting test questions and e-mailing them to others. Many courthouses ban the phones to prevent witness or juror intimidation. (At a superior court hearing in Los Angeles three months ago, a witness was photographed by a cam-phone user who threatened to post the photo on the Web.) Most gyms have set limits, especially in locker rooms, fearing members could take pictures of people in various states...
...audience poll entitled “The 13th Juror,” 68 percent of respondents thought that Pring-Wilson’s Harvard connection would not help his case, while 32 percent of respondents believed it would...
While toting a $2,800 Louis Vuitton handbag through security, OPRAH WINFREY proved last week that she is still just one of us folks. The chat-show queen reported for jury duty in Chicago, telling reporters she thought she was "too opinionated" to make an attractive juror. Attorneys disagreed and selected Oprah for a murder trial. Serving for $17.20 a day, the media mogul and her fellow jurors voted to convict after deliberating for just over two hours. Now Oprah plans to tape an episode of her show about the experience, which she called a "huge reality check." Judges...
...whom I’d gotten friendly chatting about Harriet Beecher Stowe. Once deliberations started, she alone said she thought Ariane’s testimony was fabricated. I felt betrayed; how could she? I noticed a note she had written to herself: “I was the only [juror in the pool] who confessed faith in Christ.” I almost went crazy. This woman, with her unshakable faith, was going to hang the jury...