…and you were the defense lawyer, wouldn’t you want to know?
(If this were being litigated in Texas, I’d bet on a harnless error result.)
…and you were the defense lawyer, wouldn’t you want to know?
(If this were being litigated in Texas, I’d bet on a harnless error result.)
No, I didn’t make my own list of Jury Blogs, I’m just cutting and pasting from Deliberations:
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Anne Reed of Deliberations writes about the Fully Informed Jury Association and their core belief that:
The highest and best function of the jury is not, as many think, to dispense punishment to fellow citizens guilty of breaking the law, but rather to protect fellow citizens from tyrannical prosecutions and bad laws imposed by a…
OK, for those of you that noticed that I just posted while serving on a jury, let me defend myself. I wasn’t picked; in fact, there was no trial at all. We all sat around for about 45 minutes until the bailiff came in to let us know that all the cases had “worked out” and…
So I was excited when I get the jury summons in the mail, and almost immediately went to my computer to fill out the new I-Jury online impaneling that Travis County now uses. Right before I clicked the last item to send my information out into the ether that is the internet I chanted, silently, “No…
At some point in any trial the prosecutor is going to ask a witness to identify the defendant as the person who is accused in the complaint or indictment. A fair amount of the time this witness doesn’t know the defendant personally – may never have met him – especially if it’s a police officer making…
…said every professor in every first year class on the first day of law school. (It’s been a while, but somehow that’s how I remember the entire first week of UT Law.)
That and a heavy dose of the Socratic Method may or may not be the best way to teach students how to be lawyers…
I see that my buddy and noted Texas defense lawyer Mark Bennett is speaking at Center for American and International Law CLE called “The Mind and Criminal Defense”. It’s a one day course on Capital Mitigation and it sure looks interesting, but unfortunately it conflicts with my schedule.
Other defense lawyers – especially those…
But it might get you out of jury duty.
(Or should I have made this post something about having “a jury of your peers”?)
Doug Weathers asks criminal defense lawyers, “Would you rather have Good Facts or Good Law?”:
Every time I am preparing for a trial I deal with the question of do I have good facts or good law. Rarely do you have both because those cases are usually dismissed or never go to trial.
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