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Jury selection in the lawsuit filed by the family of 9-year-old Ezra Blount, the youngest person killed during the concert by rapper Travis Scott, had been set to begin Sept. 10. Blount’s family ...
A Michigan Law Review article, published in 1978, asserted that young people, during that period, were under-represented on the nation's jury rolls. [11] A 2012 study from Duke University published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics investigated the effect of jury selection and racial composition on trial outcomes. The study found that black ...
During the trial, which began with jury selection on Oct. 21, Penny was accused of recklessly disregarding the risk his chokehold would lead to Neely's death that day on the train car floor.
A citizen's right to a trial by jury is a central feature of the United States Constitution. [1] It is considered a fundamental principle of the American legal system. Laws and regulations governing jury selection and conviction/acquittal requirements vary from state to state (and are not available in courts of American Samoa), but the fundamental right itself is mentioned five times in the ...
With jury selection closed to the media and public, Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis announced by the afternoon that the interview process had produced a large enough pool from which to ...
Jury selection is the selection of the people who will serve on a jury during a jury trial. The group of potential jurors (the "jury pool,” also known as the venire) is first selected from among the community using a reasonably random method. Jury lists are compiled from voter registrations and driver license or ID renewals.
But among prisoner Eighth Amendment lawsuits, only 14% settle, and less than 1% win in court. ... Among the jury wins for prisoners in BI's sample were two cases filed against doctors who worked ...
Lawyers for a Black defendant challenging his 2009 death sentence argued Wednesday that North Carolina's documented history of racial discrimination and perceived implicit bias in jury selection ...