WASHINGTON - Roger Clemens' perjury trial opened Wednesday with both sides raising the prospect of calling a roster of former baseball stars as witnesses and the judge angrily criticizing Congress for withholding an audiotape of Clemens' deposition at the heart of the case. Clemens is accused of lying under oath to the House Government Reform Committee in 2008 when he denied ever using performance- enhancing drugs during his record-setting career as a major league pitcher. The trial began with an intensive jury selection process expected to last into next week.
Nearly 135 years after Congress passed the 1875 Civil Rights Act to eliminate racial discrimination in jury selection, the practice continues, most glaringly in serious criminal trials and death penalty cases, according to a new report released by Equal Justice Initiative, a non-profit organization that provides legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners who have been denied fair and just treatment in the legal system. "Illegal Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection: A Continuing Legacy" is the most comprehensive study of the issue since the U.S. Supreme Court tried to limit the practice in Batson v. Kentucky in 1986. The under-representation and exclusion of people of color from juries has seriously undermined the credibility and reliability of the criminal justice sys...
By Randall Beach Register Staff rbeach@nhregister.com NEW HAVEN -- Objecting to what they termed "a call for genital lynching" by a state senator, Joshua Komisarjevsky's attorneys Monday asked that jury selection for his upcoming trial be suspended for three months.
Jury selection laws and processes should be reformed to promote diversity in light of inherent biases in jurors' perceptions of evidence and defendants. Cognitive theory demonstrates that stereotyping, organizing perceptions based on classification, is an essential component of human thought. Current methods devised to select impartial juries are not succeeding, as evidence of racial discrimination in prosecution demonstrates. The law should allow courts to promote diverse juror perspectives by employing an affirmative selection process that allows each side to select jurors, instead of excluding them.
Objecting to what they termed "a call for genital lynching" by a state senator, Joshua Komisarjevsky's attorneys Monday asked that jury selection for his upcoming trial be suspended for three months. The attorneys said they made their suggestion, filed in a legal motion, "so that the senator's call for a lynching may slip from the minds of potential jurors.
Objecting to what they termed "a call for genital lynching" by a state senator, Joshua Komisarjevsky's attorneys Monday asked that jury selection for his upcoming trial be suspended for three months. The attorneys said they made their suggestion, filed in a legal motion, "so that the senator's call for a lynching may slip from the minds of potential jurors.
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Jury selection started Monday in the trial of an Orlando woman charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter. Casey Anthony's trial will take place in Orlando, but jurors are being selected at a courthouse about 100 miles away because of the intense media coverage. The first panel of potential jurors met with the judge and attorneys Monday morning in Clearwater.
More than two years after a shootout left three Pittsburgh police officers dead, lawyers will begin choosing jurors who will decide the fate of the accused gunman on Tuesday in Dauphin County. And although the trial for Richard Poplawski, 24, hasn't begun and his guilt or innocence must be determined, veteran defense attorneys not connected with the case said the best, most-realistic outcome for him is a sentence of life in prison that avoids the death penalty.
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Jury selection started Monday in the trial of an Orlando woman charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter. Casey Anthony's trial will take place in Orlando, but jurors are being selected at a courthouse about 100 miles away because of the intense media coverage. The first panel of potential jurors met with the judge and attorneys Monday morning in Clearwater.
BANGOR, Maine -- Jury selection for the trial of a York County man accused in the hit-and-run death of a University of Maine student 18 months ago is scheduled to resume about 1 p.m. Monday after a lunch break. Nearly 150 potential jurors who live in Penobscot County showed up Monday morning at Penobscot Judicial Center for the jury selection process.
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