61. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that in states where a life sentence means life without parole, juries have to be told that. 62. Then they file the claims in courts in Mississippi, east Texas and other jurisdictions where juries have a history of being friendly to plaintiffs. 63. To acquit Woodward, the jury would have to agree that the teenager never intended to harm the child. 64. Upon a conviction, the jury then will have to decide whether to sentence him to death. 65. Until the start of last year, juries had to be sequestered if they stayed overnight on almost every felony case. 66. When cases do go to trial, juries have a habit of sympathizing with defendants accused of doing terrible things behind the wheel while drunk. 67. A new jury would have to be selected and hear all the testimony over again. 68. Also Tuesday, the jury had its first opportunity to hear from Kaplan, via a videotape made without his knowledge in a business office in New York City. 69. Any American jury today would have a mix of races, and of men and women. 70. Based on a class-action settlement, the jury had to presume that secondhand smoke causes chronic sinusitis. |