Serving on a jury is a civic duty and an American tradition. However, some people view jury duty as a chore or as an event that negatively interrupts their lives. Some independent studies have shown ...
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In the criminal justice system the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups...the police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. The ju...
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The first case of jury sequestering in America occurred in the week or so long trial of the Boston Massacre in 1770. In the twentieth century, jurisdictions began to move away from mandatory sequeste...
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The Phil Spector murder trial jury spent more than four hours in deliberations Friday with new instructions issued by the judge to try to break their 7-5 deadlock. But the panel did not reach a ver...
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It's been nearly five years since then-Attorney General John Ashcroft declared the United States had thwarted an al-Qaida plot to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in a major city and had arreste...
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Prosecutors at the CIA leak trial on Monday started playing audiotapes of I. Lewis Libby's grand jury testimony, a key piece of evidence against Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff.I...
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Two unidentified witnesses appeared Thursday before a federal grand jury investigating Blackwater Worldwide, a government contractor whose security guards were involved in a shooting that killed 17...
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A truck driver convicted for his role in the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt continued to wait Tuesday for a jury's decision on whether he would be sentenced to death.After a five-day br...
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A Cape Cod man who claimed he was homophobic, racist and a habitual liar to avoid jury duty earned an angry rebuke from a judge on Monday, who referred the case to prosecutors for possible charges....
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A jury has decided that a woman should be put to death for killing a retired Florida couple who were buried alive.The jury deliberated for about 40 minutes on Thursday before reaching its decision ...
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Religious conservatives have dusted off a largely forgotten 1887 state law that allows citizens to launch grand jury investigations, and they are using it to help turn Kansas into one of the nation...
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Phil Spector's jury deliberated Monday with the help of a VCR to review videotape evidence in the record producer's trial on a charge of murdering actress Lana Clarkson.There was no indication why ...
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Jury Duty
Spector jury deliberates again
