1. Another juror asked a fellow panelist about the outcome of the state case and was told it ended in conviction. 2. Another is state Superior Court Judge Raymond J. Brassard, who recently let jurors ask questions in a Lawrence gang-shooting case. 3. Another plan in the works is to create opportunities for jurors to ask questions of lawyers and judges. 4. Blumenthal said that the jurors themselves asked a few questions. 5. Both times the jurors asked to review testimony, the prosecutors objected. 6. Brassard said he allows jurors to ask written questions in complicated civil and criminal cases. 7. But Young is one of the few judges in Massachusetts to routinely allow jurors to ask questions. 8. During deliberations, jurors asked the judge about sentencing, but Canadian law requires juries to take into account only the facts presented in the courtroom. 9. He suggested that one juror ask a family member to save the newspaper articles about the Yousef trial, and when it ended, go back and read them. 10. In their deliberations Thursday, jurors asked to see the shank. |