Mark Bennett | February 8, 2013
Experienced trial lawyers will often tell you that “jury selection” is misnamed—it’s actually jury deselection. Different jurisdictions use different methods. In a Texas non-capital felony trial, the jury panel is ordinarily sixty people. Each juror is assigned a number. The court brings the panel in to the courtroom and lines them up on the benches in […]
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Mark Bennett | February 8, 2013
Chris Daniel has a great idea (Chron.com) for broadening the jury pool: [T]here are ways for government, without being intrusive, to provide businesses with incentives to pay workers absent because of jury service. Lawmakers will consider passing House Bill 433, which would allow employers to claim a 15 percent discount when calculating their state margins taxes if […]
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