Re: Adventures of Jury Duty

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TRIAL LIVEBLOG


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 02- 8-16 7:54 PM
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TRIAL LIVEBLOG


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 02- 8-16 7:54 PM
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TWO LIVEBLOGS EACH MORE REVEALING THAN THE LAST


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 02- 8-16 7:55 PM
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Possibly relevant: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/us/record-number-of-false-convictions-overturned-in-2015.html


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 02- 8-16 8:06 PM
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I'd recommend just going silent. The rule is that you're generally prohibited from communications with other people about the matter before the jury. Now that you are impaneled, it will be easy to read whatever you're saying as an implied comment on the subject matter of the trial. Even if you're technically as a matter of law allowed to talk about what happens before you were impaneled if it doesn't directly bear on the case (I'm not sure about the answer, but if it doesn't relate to the case, you are almost certainly OK), it will be hard to draw that line. And, you will piss off the judge and the lawyers. And, you'll create some totally unnecessary risk of mistrial or a finding of juror misconduct. And and and you'll run a risk of having the judge and/or lawyers read the blog, and who wants that.

Plenty of time to talk about everything later.


Posted by: R Tigre | Link to this comment | 02- 8-16 8:08 PM
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Legally, you're now Halford's client.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 02- 8-16 8:15 PM
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