Brooklyn jury given graphic S&M lesson
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The graphic color photo, flashed on a large video-screen stationed next to the jury, tested the decorum of a federal courtroom. It showed a nude woman named Rona tethered to a tree trunk in the wilderness. From the witness stand, Rona answered questions about the bondage scene in graphic detail, casually complaining that she was bitten up by mosquitoes.
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Los Angeles judge may instruct jury to go back and try to reach verdict on a reduced charge of manslaughter.
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The lessons learned from a complex terrorism trial in 1996 are still echoing with Michael B. Mukasey.
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Peterson case shows that jurors can make decisions based on personal demeanor.
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In the first major courtroom test of the state's anti-hazing law, a prosecutor Wednesday described for jurors how an aspiring Florida A&amp;M University fraternity member was pummeled with boxing gloves so hard he briefly lost his hearing.
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The jury expected to begin poring over 100 pages of jury instructions starting Wednesday.
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Most people think that juries are more likely than judges to let defendants off the hook. The conventional wisdom, however, may be dead wrong
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Whether the Boston Herald's highly critical stories on a state judge were part of a libelous smear campaign or the largely accurate result of tough but fair reporting on a public figure is now up to a jury to decide.
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Judge Michael B. Mukasey clearly believed that the defendant did not have a case. He dismissed her assertion that the New York City Police Department fired her because she had accused a more senior officer of rape, without allowing a jury to hear the case. But a higher court disagreed and told the...
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NEW YORK, Dec. 26 -- A judge's decision to keep a stymied jury deliberating for 12 hours just days before Christmas could be grounds to overturn a manslaughter verdict against a black man convicted of shooting a white teenager, criminal defense lawyers said Wednesday.
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SANTA MARIA, Calif.  - The judge in pop star  Michael Jackson's child molestation case ruled on Friday that  "erotic" material, including pictures of nude children, seized  from the entertainer's Neverland Ranch could be shown to jurors  at his upcoming trial.
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SANTA MARIA, Calif.  - "Erotic material,"  including pictures of nude children, seized from Michael  Jackson's Neverland Valley Ranch, can be shown to jurors at the  pop star's upcoming child molestation case, a judge ruled on  Friday.
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Juries in child sex abuse and theft cases could be told the previous convictions of defendants.
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One juror, a white woman, was trying to convince the others that the murder victim had been bruised during a struggle, not during consensual sex with the defendant. Bruises like those, the juror supposedly said, can happen "when a big black guy beats up on a small woman."
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The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that spectators at a murder trial were free to wear buttons bearing a picture of the victim in front of the jury that convicted the defendant.
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A lawyer for the tobacco industry Thursday attempted to paint the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration as a man who seized upon a political environment that was hostile to the tobacco industry in order to advance his
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Jurors on Thursday visited the  crime scene where U.S. actor Robert Blake's wife was murdered  after a prosecution expert witness testified that Bonny Lee  Bakley was killed with a Nazi-era pistol.