1. Jury consultants say they now spend more time teaching storytelling techniques than on jury selection -- formerly their bread and butter. 2. Another jury consultant, Robert Hirschhorn of Galveston, Texas, explained the evolution. 3. A defense jury consultant said Ito has not made a final decision. 4. A jury consultant who worked briefly with the prosecution told Newsweek the jury was predisposed to think Simpson innocent. 5. Cyndie Aquilina, a social worker who volunteered as a jury consultant for the defense team, stood outside the courthouse after the verdict and expressed shock. 6. Given the unqualified success of O.J. Simpson jury consultant Jo-Ellan Dimitrius, any client who can afford one will now insist on a consultant. 7. He talked occasionally with his lawyers, Barbara Lependorf and Roy Greenman, and with a jury consultant at the defense table. 8. In taxpayer-funded cases, defense attorneys said the county is extra stingy when it comes to jury consultants and eyewitness experts. 9. Is the American jury an anachronism, an institution that no longer works in the day of jury consultants, complex scientific testimony and racial polarization among diverse juries? |