In these difficult economic times, should a loss of wages be made a part of the jury selection process?
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In the jury selection process, she told the judge that one of her sons had been - had pled guilty to a drug charge.
However, Cleland ruled Monday that the alleged victims' identities may not be concealed during the trial, although they will be protected through the jury selection process.
Potential jurors fill out questionnaires and then face further scrutiny by judges and attorneys before selection to the jury in a process called voir dire.
The case for the prosecution was weak but it was complicated by a completely incompetent defense attorney who needlessly antagonized witness who were actually agreeing with his client (he antagonized members of the jury in the process).
Even the process of selecting a jury in death-penalty cases has a bias against the innocent.
Jury selection can be a long arduous process of selecting members from a larger pool, questioning of the jurors on their own background (nothing too probing) and whether they think they have any biases that would impact the case (previously being duped by a stock broker might get one out of serving in this trial).
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When he testified in his grand jury testimony, he explained what his mental process was in the Jones deposition.
Judge Simeon Lake selected the jury himself, sidestepping the often time-consuming process of allowing lawyers for both sides to individually question jurors and strike the ones with bias.
We expect arbitration to be a more efficient and speedier dispute resolution process than trying a matter before a jury years down the line in the San Francisco Superior Court.
Bringing formal charges, a process similar to a U.S. grand jury indictment, would take another two months, she said.
By arresting Martoma based on a criminal complaint rather than after a grand jury indictment, the government is still in control of the process, Sorkin said, rather than a judge.
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Indeed, given the limited role of a grand jury in our system and the total absence of procedural protections in the process, the Independent Counsel's insistence that his investigation has been a search for "truth" is deeply misleading.
Members of the jury pool were sent home after the Maine Supreme Judicial Court stopped the closed process in response to a constitutional challenge by the Portland Press Herald.
Beyond this invocation of the Public Safety Rule, Tsarneav will be accorded all the rights of due process prescribed by the Constitution, including a civil trial before a jury of his peers.
If a prospective juror did not find this process painful enough, there was always the chance that he or she might actually get a jury.
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