News and Views from Ernster, the Law Library Virtual Cat.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Advice For Future Litigators
When you conduct your first jury trial, make certain that your jurors are paying attention to the court proceedings, instead of, say, doing crossword puzzles, or playing Sudoku.
Think I’m exaggerating? Then read this news story from Australia, where a jury in a lengthy and expensive criminal trial was recently discharged for doing just what I mention, above!
(a.k.a. - legal stuff I have to say on advice of counsel)
The opinions expressed herein are solely the opinions of the individual authors. Users acknowledge that Hofstra does not pre-screen or regularly review posted content, but that it shall have the right to remove in its sole discretion any content that it considers to violate the bounds of civility or any Hofstra student codes of conduct.
No comments:
Post a Comment