Those Who Dodge Jury Service Face Shaming
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LONG BEACH, Calif. - Every month, hundreds of people are summoned to courts across the nation for a public scolding...
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Defense attorney Leslie Ballin called it the "jury pool from hell." The group of prospective jurors was summoned to listen to a case of Tennessee trailer park violence.
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Mary Winkler convinced a jury she was physically and emotionally abused by her preacher husband before she shot him to death. Now, after a short jail sentence, she is trying to persuade the courts to let her have her children back.
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A high-stakes battle over Scott Peterson&#39;s life begins today at the same courthouse where hundreds of gawkers whooped it up after a jury found him guilty
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CROWN POINT, Ind. - A judge detained and questioned a row of spectators when a cell phone rang for a third time in her courtroom, later ordering two people to serve community service for contempt of court.
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Thousands who come to the U.S. saying they are seeking refuge from persecution are treated like criminals while their claims are evaluated, a bipartisan commission found.
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DULUTH, Minn. - A Chicago man apologized for spreading his feces around a courtroom during his trial on drug charges. Vandale Amos Willis, 28, apologized Wednesday before being sentenced to more than 10 years in prison.
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Attorneys in Michael Jackson's child-molestation trial are turning to the tough job of finding jurors who can judge the pop star not as a legend but as a defendant.
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A magistrate is reprimanded after complaining about 'bloody foreigners' in court.
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Several jurors who convicted a black trash collector in the slaying of a white fashion writer made disparaging racial remarks during deliberations, which at one point became so heated two jurors had to be separated, according to documents filed Tuesday.
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The jury system in China, where a defendant's guilt is often presumed before cases come to court, is a work in progress after a year's trial but reforms are needed, senior officials said.
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SAN FRANCISCO - A state commission rebuked a northern California judge Wednesday for telling potential jurors that they should think of a phony reason not to serve if they couldn't acknowledge they were racially biased.    Placer County Superior Court Judge Joseph O'Flaherty, in cases in 1999 and 2000 involving black and Iranian defendants, told prospective jurors they should come up with some other reason to get off the jury if they had racial biases and couldn't admit them...
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SAN FRANCISCO - A state commission rebuked a Placer County judge Wednesday for urging prospective jurors to lie rather than hide their animosity toward minority group defendants.    The Commission on Judicial Performance issued a public admonishment to Superior Court Judge Joseph O'Flaherty for telling potential jurors in two cases that they should think of a phony reason not to serve if they couldn't acknowledge they were racially biased...
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The lead defense lawyer in the Scott Peterson murder trial, Mark Geragos, urged jurors on Tuesday to put aside any hatred for his client&#39;s boorish ways.
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By Paul Edward Parker; Journal Staff Writer  Witnesses and jurors might be reluctant to participate if testimony would become public, a law professor argues.
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LOS ANGELES _ Justice delayed may be justice denied _but at the end of the day it is incontestably better than nothing. Societies that disrespect the professionalism of their courts ultimately court catastrophe.
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It was the year a Mr. Smith senator took away phone companies' Get Out Of Jail Free cards, Ron Paul fans put their money where their mouths are, and technology-laced murder and piracy trials unfolded before rapt, and sometimes angry, jurors.