Thankfully, the Chicago Tribune is providing "gavel-to-gavel" coverage of the R. Kelly trial in Cook County, and though this trial will probably teach us many important lessons, the first of them has to do with jury service. Reporter Stacy St….
Always check the pockets.
I'm just now starting to number these, and am going to call this #6. As a quick recap, here are what I am considering 1-5: After Being Asked Whether You Can Be Fair, Pause for a Really Long Time; Have a…
Nobody really likes jury duty, but probably nobody doesn’t like it as much as Daniel Ellis. Ellis was absolutely determined not to serve on a Massachusetts grand jury, apparently so determined that he wanted to go to jail instead. Ellis…
Madison County, Illinois, is not the lawsuit-lottery capital of the world like it used to be, but juries seem to still be pretty generous. Last week, a jury awarded William Clawson over $111,000 for injuries he suffered after he drove…
It doesn’t endear you to jurors, that’s for sure.
To the list of possible reasons for seeking a continuance, you can now add the start of deer-hunting season, at least if you live in Arkansas. John Hall, the attorney for Bobby Junior Cox (not “Bobby Cox, Jr.,” but “Bobby…
More comedy this week from the Saddam Hussein trial in Baghdad. Hussein claimed on Wednesday in one of his patented courtroom outbursts that he has been beaten "everywhere on [his] body" by Americans while in detention and that he has…
More specifically, “have you ever hated a lawyer as much as me?”
The L.A. Times reports that Robert Blake, the former star of "Baretta" who was accused of killing his wife, was very involved in his legal defense strategy, according to transcripts of conversations he had while in prison awaiting trial. In…