This article highlights that, while attorneys routinely research jurors and account for bias in jury trials, they often overlook the same critical need in bench trials, arbitrations, and ...

Senate Bill 97, which is pending in the state legislature, would let voters decide whether prosecutors need to approve jury ...

Matt Schooley is a digital producer at CBS Boston. He has been a member of the WBZ news team for the last decade. Jurors in the Karen Read trial asked four questions to Judge Beverly Cannone Tuesday, ...

• Jury to return: The jury in the trial of Brian Walshe will resume deliberations on Monday after spending more than three hours considering the case today. Walshe is accused of killing his wife, Ana ...

An Illinois jury is set to continue deliberations Wednesday in the first-degree murder trial of a sheriff’s deputy who shot Sonya Massey, a Black woman who had called 911 for help and was later killed ...

The jury will go back to the deliberation room on Wednesday in Sean "Diddy" Combs' criminal trial after deadlocking on the top charge but reaching a decision on his other four counts. Jurors said they ...

The right to trial by jury in criminal and civil cases is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. It’s also a critically important way in which citizens can participate in democracy. The French thinker ...

JUDGE’S ANSWERS. DAVID. GOOD EVENING. JESSICA. THIS JURY HAS NOW BEEN DELIBERATING FOR MORE THAN 16 HOURS. THEY LEFT THE COURTHOUSE ABOUT AN HOUR AGO WITH STILL NO VERDICT YET. BUT FOR THE FIRST TIME, ...

A jury trial is “always going to be an important part of the criminal justice system”, a minister has said, as proposed reforms could see less cases heard by juries. Cabinet Office minister Nick ...

As a relatively new United States citizen, getting a jury duty notice — that small piece of paper politely informing me that I need to be ready to show up at the courthouse in a few weeks’ time — ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Valerie P. Hans, Cornell University and Richard Lorren Jolly, Southwestern Law School ...