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Unforgettable Juror Art
by Anne Reed on November 4, 2009 13:50 CST
Deliberations collects juror art, as you may know -- drawings and photographs made by real people on jury duty, gathered in what we cheerfully call the "American Gallery of Juror Art."Click for more | Comments
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When They Don't See What You See
by Anne Reed on October 16, 2009 10:32 CDT
A recent study highlights what might be the most important thing lawyers and clients miss about how juries will react to their cases. The same evidence that makes you angry at the other side might make jurors angry at you. I'll show you how it works.Click for more | Comments
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Look At The Jury Expert Now
by Anne Reed on October 8, 2009 09:29 CDT
The Jury Expert doesn't need me anymore, but I'll keep posting about new issues anyway.Click for more | Comments
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Just The Facts
by Anne Reed on September 25, 2009 09:42 CDT
What does it take to get a jury in a traditionally conservative area to award $49 million in a personal injury case? San Francisco lawyer Randall Scarlett just did it, for a 21-year-old client who suffered traumatic brain injury in a car accident.Click for more | Comments
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Mark Bennett's Simple Rules For Jury Selection
by Anne Reed on September 3, 2009 09:13 CDT
We love simple rules here at Deliberations, and so I'm only a little embarrassed that I'm not the blogger who came up with a set of simple rules for better jury selection. Mark Bennett is, and he's building it as we speak.Click for more | Comments
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They're Out There
by Anne Reed on July 15, 2009 10:27 CDT
The New York Times had a nice article yesterday on conspiracy theorists, especially those who believe the Apollo moon landings were a government hoax. It's a good reminder that -- unlike all the things they believe are out there -- conspiracy theorists really are out there, and on juries.Click for more | Comments
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What Have You Missed?
by Anne Reed on July 2, 2009 09:37 CDT
The better the trial lawyer, the better her sense of what experiences have been important to other people -- that is, to jurors. But we all have blind spots. One of mine, it turns out, was Michael Jackson.Click for more | Comments
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A Good Juror Story
by Anne Reed on June 2, 2009 08:57 CDT
The news is full of “bad juror” stories. It’s not that there are so many of them; but when they do come up, they bounce all over the media. The bored juror who went AWOL in Oregon last month hit the ABA Journal on May 20, and was still making headlines in England on Friday. Click for more | Comments
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Why Are Mean Women So Fascinating?
by Anne Reed on May 15, 2009 14:02 CDT
The most interesting thing about the New York Times article on female bullies in the workplace . . . is how interesting it apparently is. Four days after it appeared on line and three days after the print edition, it's still among the ten most E-mailed articles on the entire Times site. Every other article in the top ten (as I write this on Wednesday evening) appeared the print edition today or yesterday.Click for more | Comments (2)
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And Now, The Rest Of The Judge's-Mother-On-The-Jury Story
by Anne Reed on May 1, 2009 13:52 CDT
About a year ago I wrote a post about a Wisconsin court of appeals opinion affirming a small-town trial judge who refused to strike his own mother from the jury for cause. The post was fun to write, and I remember it fondly because other than my Blawg Review post , it's the only post here that Above The Law ever linked to, so I got all kinds of visitors from it.Click for more | Comments (3)
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Sleepers
by Anne Reed on April 21, 2009 09:48 CDT
Two jurors who fell asleep have been replaced at an Ohio financial fraud trial heavy in testimony about bookkeeping and check-writing.Click for more | Comments (1)
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The Fourth Circuit And The Juror Who Called The Press
on March 31, 2009 13:43 CDT
The evidence in Brandon Basham's 2004 South Carolina federal trial was that he confessed to taking part in separate killings and apparent kidnapping of two women. On appeal of his conviction and death sentence, the Fourth Circuit was faced with those grim facts on the one hand, and a startling instance of jury misconduct on the other: a one-woman media campaign by the jury foreperson, during the trial. At a time when many people are concerned about jurors' communications...Click for more | Comments
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What We Still Don’t Understand About Lawyers, And Other Leaders, On Juries
by Anne Reed on March 26, 2009 13:30 CDT
Last year I was a little flippant when I wrote about Robert Martin, the New Jersey lawyer, law professor, and state legislator who made the mistake of admitting, in an article about his jury service, that his opinions “swayed other jurors and were extremely influential in the final outcome.”Click for more | Comments (1)
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Jurors And The Internet: Deliberations’ Collected Posts
by Anne Reed on March 19, 2009 09:12 CDT
The juror on Twitter this weekend in Philadelphia’s high-profile Fumo trial must have been the tipping point. Suddenly everyone is talking about jurors on the Internet.Click for more | Comments
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The One Simple Rule When Jurors Go Online
by Anne Reed on March 16, 2009 14:03 CDT
It happened again. A juror accessed Twitter from court, and everybody's twitting out about it.Click for more | Comments (3)
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The Price Of A Poker Face
by Anne Reed on March 13, 2009 10:40 CDT
It may be the single most frustrating piece of jury advice for young lawyers: “Watch the jury.” Watch them what?, I used to think. They’re just sitting there! I felt like I could watch the jury for hours and never see a facial expression.Click for more | Comments (2)
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Is Batson Wrong?
by Anne Reed on March 10, 2009 09:33 CDT
Just my luck. I leave town for two days, away from the Internet for once in my life, and the blogosphere decides to spend the whole time talking about peremptory challenges to potential jurors. Click for more | Comments (2)
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How To Work With Jargon
by Anne Reed on February 19, 2009 13:45 CST
Jury consultants don’t get many questions that have easy answers, but here’s one, and lawyers ask it all the time. How do you handle difficult vocabulary – industry, technical, or legal jargon – with the jury?Click for more | Comments
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Juror Love
by Anne Reed on February 17, 2009 09:19 CST
Every facet of life makes its way into the courtroom eventually. Click for more | Comments
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Count 'Em
by Anne Reed on February 12, 2009 11:34 CST
Sometimes it's the most basic things that matter. In college I was a lifeguard at a Girl Scout camp, and it turned out the most important skill wasn't saving swimmers; it was counting them. If you started with eleven red caps, you needed eleven red caps at all points during the swimming period, and most importantly, eleven red caps when they came out. Click for more | Comments
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If We Strike All The Facebook Jurors, Who's Left?
on February 5, 2009 10:13 CST
It’s one thing to understand that jurors might be on Facebook. The next step is to decide what to do when you find out they are.Click for more | Comments
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More Harmless Than Harmless? The Mother Who Was Locked Out Of Voir Dire
by Anne Reed on February 3, 2009 09:30 CST
Robert Gibbons was tried in what apparently was a very small courtroom in Goshen, New York, for the rape of his 15-year-old daughter. He had told the police, “it was mutual, I didn’t rape her.” That’s a conviction that many people – including, it seems, a series of appellate and postconviction judges -- would naturally want very much to stand.Click for more | Comments
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The January Jury Expert Is On Line
by Anne Reed on January 27, 2009 09:34 CST
The ASTC’s Jury Expert on-line magazine has been so well received that announcing a new issue is now the easiest post I ever have to write.Click for more | Comments
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Deliberations’ 2009 Guide To Jury Blogs And Feeds
by Anne Reed on January 28, 2009 09:10 CST
I just found a jury blog I didn’t know about. It’s called Things That Make You Go Hmmm . . . , from the jury consulting firm Jury Impact.Click for more | Comments (2)
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American Gallery Of Juror Art Welcomes John Borstel
by Anne Reed on January 20, 2009 10:26 CST
Deliberations’ American Gallery of Juror Art went a little viral last week, after it turned up in Boing Boing (“a directory of wonderful things”). Several bloggers picked it up from there, including Robert Ambrogi in Legal Blog Watch, and it popped up periodically on Twitter all week. Click for more | Comments
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