The appellant was charged and convicted with one count of second-degree assault and one count of armed criminal action. Where one member of the jury was the sister of a prosecutor who signed some of the early pleadings in the ...

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Jurors may be developing a more positive view of plaintiffs and plaintiffs’ lawyers. That’s what James B. Lees Jr., a West Virginia personal injury lawyer and communications expert, thinks. Lees, a partner at Hunt & Lees in Charleston, W.V., has ...

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April 27 through May 1 marks Juror Appreciation Week in Missouri courts. Trial courts throughout the state will observe the week to recognize jurors for their service and to remind jurors of the importance of their contribution. “Juror Appreciation Week ...

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Our legal system is based on the assumption that juries in America will be fair, impartial and well-intended. Attorneys act as advocates, judges as umpires and juries as objective observers and decision makers. Parties risk their fortunes and lives on ...

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Earlier this month a federal judge was forced to declare a mistrial after learning that nine jurors hearing a drug trial had done research on the case via cell phone. What? The defense lawyers were stunned, and probably not real ...

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It was the “tweet” heard around the legal world. Two weeks ago, a juror in Fayetteville, Ark., used his cell phone to broadcast messages about the progress of the trial via Twitter, a micro-blogging Web site. “I just gave away ...

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A mother sobs gently in her deposition, describing the last moments of life her teenage daughter experienced after a head-on collision. She cries as she talks about the plans her daughter had to go to medical school and how she ...

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