Select your jury

[Firelord Lionheart]

No it's a game/character study to see who you'd eliminate and why.....

Unfortunately, what Joe pointed out kind of invalidates the character study, don't you think...

No, not really. Lawyers have served on juries before.....

Where Are You Getting Your Information?

I Have Never Ever Seen One Allowed To Stay In The Jury Box By Either The State Or The Federal Court In Any Criminal Case

And I'm Sure Both Attorneys In A Civil Case Could And Would Toss Any Lawyer (Student, Active Or Retired) Out Of The Box "With Cause"

It was either the Scott Peterson case or the Michael Jackson case where a lawyer was allowed on the jury.

[Guest]

Where Are You Getting Your Information?

It was either the Scott Peterson case or the Michael Jackson case where a lawyer was allowed on the jury.....

Scott Peterson's Jury

Someone quickly nominated Gregory Jackson, a man with degrees in medicine and law, to serve as foreman. Everyone around the table agreed.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/12/16/MNG80ACOTJ1.DTL&ao=all#ixzz1o7T0D9j9

But trouble was brewing with Gregory Jackson, the foreman.

A scholarly man, Jackson had not forged many friendships on the jury. Many in the group had coffee with others on the panel. But Jackson, a corporate lawyer, spent most lunch hours and breaks by himself, often answering business e-mails on his Blackberry.

Still, the jurors felt confident in their choice. Jackson paid rapt attention to witnesses in the courtroom, and his scrupulous note taking -- he filled 19 notebooks -- had impressed many on the panel -- even as they joked about his running out of ink. In selecting him as their foreman, they thought his higher degrees in both law and medicine would surely be an asset in trying to weigh the testimony of medical experts who testified during the trial.

By the second day of deliberations, the jurors decided they needed a process, a methodical way to sift through the evidence and testimony. After they spent the first night sequestered in a hotel, Jackson came back to the jury room and laid out a plan. He wanted to comb through a mound of evidence and testimony. Not only did he need detailed notes, Jackson now needed a detailed analysis.

"We'll be here for months,'' one of the jurors complained.

The jurors plodded along, brainstorming, mapping, listening, watching and reviewing expert testimony.

By the third day, the jurors said they hadn't taken a vote, but it was clear that most, if not all, were leaning toward a conviction. But Jackson was bogging things down. He kept offering his expertise, first as a lawyer, then as a doctor. The others just wanted him to be a juror.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/12/16/MNG80ACOTJ1.DTL&ao=all#ixzz1o7TV2JW6

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Michael Jackson's Jury

Early each morning for the last six weeks the seven men and five women who made up the jury in Dr Conrad Murray's trial left their respective homes and gathered at a secret location from where they were bussed to a court building in downtown Los Angeles.

Sitting at the eye of a media storm they had to ignore blanket television coverage and wild internet speculation as they decided the 58-year-old cardiologist's fate.

During the case they heard from 49 witnesses, 33 for the prosecution and 16 for the defence, over 23 days of evidence.

The jurors were praised by both sides for their attentiveness, none of them were ever late, and copious notes were scribbled by them in large white spiral notebooks.

They appeared to be an unusually highly qualified group and included among their number a college professor, a management consultant, a biochemist, a television director, a paralegal, a US Postal Service manager who oversees dozens of people, an account manager, an office manager, a sociology graduate and a bookseller.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/michael-jackson/8875769/Michael-Jackson-trial-the-jury-who-decided-Conrad-Murrays-fate.html