Jury Duty Three. A Service for Amateurs.
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 Posted in Jury Duty | 1 Comment »The jury is a part of a larger social order whose purpose is to determine the fate of persons accused of acts contrary to established law. Anyone caught up and charged passes through a linked sequence of encounters ...
Jury Duty–Two. A Case of a Negotiated Verdict
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 Posted in Jury Duty | No Comments »A few decades back a detective charged with accepting a bribe went on trial. The State's Attorney had a very tight case built around a tape recording of the actual felony which took place in a popular local restaurant-bar. This ...
Jury Duty–One
Friday, November 21st, 2008 Posted in Jury Duty | No Comments »The American jury is a small group. A limited number of people, in the range of six to twelve in number, are brought together and asked to make a joint unanimous decision. A crime has been committed and a defendant ...