Petit Jury

• Petit Jury

The petit jury is the trial jury, as distinguished from the GRAND JURY. Th...

• Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
• KA-PU

• Jury Selection to Begin in Petit Slayings?

By Randall Beach Register Staff NEW HAVEN -- Two years and 181 days after Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, Michaela, 11 and Hayley, 17, were slain during an invasion of their Cheshire home, jury selection is scheduled to begin this morning for the trial of Steven J. Hayes, one of the two men accused in their deaths.

• New Haven Register
• January 19, 2010

• Petit Jury

The ordinary panel of twelve persons called to issue a verdict in a civil action or a criminal prosecution. Petit jury is u...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Mc–Pl

• State v. Reed, (Ohio 2008)

dismiss – indictment – jury code – petit jury – importuning – venue – Crim.R. 29 – waived

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Suspect's Coma Delays Jury Selection in Petit Case

By Randall Beach Register Staff NEW HAVEN -- Jury selection for the triple homicide trial of Steven J. Hayes will be delayed at least two days while his attorneys wait to find out more about his medical condition.

• New Haven Register
• February 02, 2010

• Young Blacks and Latinos 'Lynched' in Manhattan

There were no Black politicians in Alabama when the Scottsboro Boys were convicted of raping two white, female hobos near Scottsboro, Ala., in 1930. Accordingly, there were no Blacks either on the grand jury that indicted them or the petit jury that convicted them. The denial of the right to vote for Blacks in Alabama prompted the Supreme Court to reverse the second convictions in Norris v. Alabama. April 22: UAM Weekly Forum at Elks Plaza, 1068 Harriet Tubman (Fulton Street) near Classon Avenue in Brooklyn at 7:30 p.m. Take the "C" train to Franklin Avenue. Three blocks to Elks Plaza. Admission is free. The focus will be on the April rally on the steps of City Hall acknowledging the 20th anniversary of the "Central Park Six." No justice! No peace! See: www.reinstatealtonmaddox.net for ...

• New York Amsterdam News
• September 09, 2009

• Petit Jurors Drawn for May Term in Fayette

The following Fayette County residents within the Kanawha Valley Neighbors circulation area have been summoned for petit jury duty for Fayette County. They are to report to the courtroom on the second floor of the main courthouse building in Fayetteville no later than 8:45 a.m. May 9. Raymond Anthony Barron Jr., Montgomery; Bobbie Franklin Bass, Smithers; Bruce E. Bender, Kincaid; Melissa Ann Bess, Cannelton; Garfield Bohanna Jr., Boomer; Jackie Sue Bowling, Boomer; Bethany Ann Brannon, Smithers...

• Charleston Gazette
• April 27, 2011

• 'Justice Served'

By Randall Beach Register Staff rbeach@nhregister.com NEW HAVEN -- When Dr. William Petit Jr. Monday finally heard a jury declare Steven J. Hayes should be sentenced to death for murdering Petit's wife and two daughters, he said he wept for the loss of his family but was "glad for the girls that there was justice.

• New Haven Register
• November 09, 2010

• State v. Jackson, (Ohio 2006)

CRIMINAL LAW: capital murder; postconviction relief; R.C. 2953.21 et seq.; civil discovery; appointment of experts; no constitutional right to counsel; duty of state to provide discovery in postconviction; personal knowledge of trial judge; judicial notice of prior proceeding; breakdown of attorney-client relationship; no right to "rapport" with attorney; res judicata; discrimination in selection of grand jury and petit jury; discrimination in prosecution of death penalty cases; ineffective assistance of counsel; use of lethal injection; lack of substantive grounds for relief; failure to release exculpatory evidence prior to trial; need for mitigation specialist; psychologist's theory of case; calculation of I.Q.; adequate investigation of case; change in counsel prior to mitigation ph...

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Holland v. Illinois, 493 U.S. 474 (1990)

... . During jury selection at his state-court trial on various feloony charges, petitioner, who is white, objected to the State's peremptory ...

• U.S. Supreme Court