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Everything is Evidence

What legally constitutes evidence is very different from what jurors consider evidence. Legal constructs are quite distinct from the common sense constructs that jurors apply to a case. A juror typically is not aware or does not care that a particular case is an antitrust, patent, product liability or personal...

Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., juror, litigation, antitrust, knowledge

White papers 2003-01-01

Tips for Voir Dire

The limitations imposed on the trial attorney have not so much reduced the need for voir dire as made it increasingly necessary for the trial attorney to be well prepared, focused and efficient in their questioning of potential jurors and interpretation of their answers. As case complexity increases, jurors come...

Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., juror, attorney, body language, motivation

White papers 2003-01-01

Using Storytelling Techniques to Craft a Persuasive Legal Story

Jurors are ordinary persons torn away from their daily routines and placed in an unfamiliar and highly ritualized environment. They are asked to make profound decisions; guilty or not guilty, a plaintiff's or defense verdict, large damages/no damages, life imprisonment versus the death penalty. After they have been instructed in...

Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., juror, death penalty, environment

White papers 2003-01-01

The Issue of Commensurability: Understanding Jury Research and Juror Information Processing

Perhaps it is a truism by now, but understanding people and how they think and interact in their social environment is not rocket science. It is much more difficult than rocket science because the thing being measured need not follow any immutable laws. In fact, measuring people and understanding how...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Reed Elsevier Inc., juror, litigation, technique, environment, strategy

White papers 2003-01-01

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KU: If it looks, walks like a duck, it's a Jayhawk

By Mike Hall THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL The image of The University of Kansas has been demeaned by some unauthorized T-shirts sold by Joe-College.com bearing offensive messages, according to an attorney for the university. Oh, and then there is the money, too. ...

Articles 2008-06-25

Ballistics' role in trial crucial

By Steve Fry THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL EMPORIA - The trial of a Topeka man charged with killing an 18- year-old Lyon County goose hunter will be a battle of ballistics experts, the prosecution and defense said Tuesday. The bullet that killed Beau...

Articles 2008-06-25

KU: If it looks, walks like a duck, it's a Jayhawk

By Mike Hall THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL The image of The University of Kansas has been demeaned by some unauthorized T-shirts sold by Joe-College.com bearing offensive messages, according to an attorney for the university. Oh, and then there is the money, too. ...

Articles 2008-06-25

Ballistics' role in trial crucial

By Steve Fry THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL EMPORIA - The trial of a Topeka man charged with killing an 18- year-old Lyon County goose hunter will be a battle of ballistics experts, the prosecution and defense said Tuesday. The bullet that killed Beau...

Articles 2008-06-25

Phone data sheds light in kidnapping trial

Jurors yesterday heard lengthy testimony about phone records that suggest a link between Shamari Taylor and Kenneth Tuck, who's now on trial on charges of kidnapping Taylor nearly two years ago. Taylor, then 26, the son of state Rep. John Myers, D-Northwest Philadelphia, has not been seen since and is...

Articles 2008-06-25

Jury mulls verdict in Briton's US murder trial

WOBURN, Massachusetts AFP — The jury hearing the case against Briton Neil Entwistle, who is on trial in the United States for murdering his wife and baby daughter, was on Tuesday mulling a verdict a day after the defense rested without calling a single witness. Entwistle, 29, could...

Articles 2008-06-24

Coca-Cola and Turner Duckworth Win Cannes Design Grand Prix

Package Design Firm Reasserts Coke's Design Leadership SAN FRANCISCO -- Turner Duckworth, an independent brand identity and package design firm with offices in London and San Francisco, was awarded the first ever Design Grand Prix at the prestigious Cannes Lions last week. The award was presented for Turner...

Articles 2008-06-24

'Beasting' jurors visit barracks

Home News IN BRIEF *Jurors trying three soldiers for manslaughter visited the Army base where they allegedly "beasted" a colleague to death. Pte Gavin Williams, 22, of Hengoed, Caerphilly, died of heatstroke at Lucknow Barracks on Salisbury Plain after an exercise session to punish his breaches of...

Articles 2008-06-21

Contest tranforms little rascals into virtuosos

One would think it was children's week at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center. It wasn't. But it was the week for the more than 30 children, ages 11 to 13, who are performing for the junior competition of the Gina Bachauer Piano Competition....

Articles 2008-06-21

Editorial: Trampling the Shield Law

If the attorneys for slots-parlor-owner and felon Louis DeNaples want to go on a fishing expedition, they should rent a boat and head to the Jersey Shore. Instead, DeNaples' attorneys are trolling for alleged leaks to the news media stemming from a grand jury investigation involving DeNaples. Earlier this year,...

Articles 2008-06-17

Kansas City Courthouse Roundup: June 16, 2008

After deliberating for a number of hours over two days, a Jackson County jury decided it was hung and unable to reach a verdict. Nonetheless, a woman was still able to secure a $250,000 settlement in her trip and fall lawsuit against Westport business owners -- two...

Articles 2008-06-16

Trip and fall nets settlement, despite mistrial in Jackson County

After deliberating for a number of hours over two days, a Jackson County jury decided it was hung and unable to reach a verdict. Nonetheless, a woman was still able to secure a $250,000 settlement in her trip and fall lawsuit against Westport business owners -- two...

Articles 2008-06-16

Tuck jury hears victim's sister

Jurors yesterday heard of an armed home invasion that occurred at Shamari Taylor's house the night after he was kidnapped, and more details about his alleged drug-dealing life. It was nearly two years ago when Taylor, then 26, was abducted with a friend by a group of men in Overbrook...

Articles 2008-06-14

McFadden sentenced to death by St. Louis County Circuit judge

Once again, Vincent McFadden has received the death sentence. McFadden was retried in April of this year in the 2003 fatal shooting of his ex-girlfriend's sister. A jury trial again resulted in a first-degree murder conviction. The Missouri Supreme Court had thrown out...

Articles 2008-06-13

Briton breaks down in murder trial

Home News IN BRIEF *Neil Entwistle, of Worksop, above, cried in a US court when a jury was shown footage of the bodies of his wife and baby daughter. The 29-year-old frequently covered his face as jurors were shown a 20-minute police video of the murder scene...

Articles 2008-06-13

Court Order: May we get a whiff of your Benjamins?

An Ohio couple was recently scammed out of $1,000 by a man posing as an Arkansas sheriff's deputy, claiming he needed to test the money "for drug residue." The man flashed some type of ID and pretended to be talking into a handheld radio after knocking on...

Articles 2008-06-12