Word: juror
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...System, it seemed, agreed. At 5 p.m. that day, I was no longer a shleppy college student spending a week at home with my parents. I was juror number 10 in the case of People of New York v. Saul Gomez—I sat in the box with a street preacher, a doorman, the teapot from Broadway’s Beauty and the Beast, a Princeton Ph.D student and sundry others. I couldn’t help grinning...
...innocent because the prosecution hasn't given us any reason to believe otherwise so far." JUSTIN FALCONER, juror dismissed from the Scott Peterson trial, on whether Peterson is guilty of murdering his wife Laci...
Year in and year out, TV tells stories about cops who put away the bad guys and lawyers who free the innocent. In real life, though, neither group does the putting away or the freeing. We give that job to amateurs--jurors--and early on, the Fox drama The Jury (Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.; debuts June 8, 8 p.m. E.T.) shows us what it believes is one of their biggest influences: TV. In one case, although the young defendant's record is sealed, a juror concludes--because of something he saw on a lawyer show--that the accused must have...
...Well, they will soon: the kid's been offered a bunch of scripts and endorsement deals, and has already signed on to star in another picture. When actress and Cannes juror Emmanuelle B?art says she wants to kiss an actor for being so brilliant?and he happens to be a junior high school student?that sort of catches people's attention, you know? It makes you wonder: How does a kid becomes a national idol overnight...
...case, a juror does not have to be ignorant of the case he is deliberating, Grabau wrote, but needs to “lay aside his impression or opinion and render a verdict based on evidence at the trial.” To prevent a biased jury, Grabbau recommended the court question potential trial jurors about pre-trial publicity and give “daily admonitions to the jury about not reading or watching or discussing media accounts regarding the case...