Two of life’s greatest inconveniences — jury duty and traffic — collided this week in California. A courthouse computer system in Auburn accidentally summoned 1,200 people for jury duty  Tuesday. Traffic was jammed on the way to the Placer County Courthouse as ...

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This week, like so many in Maryland and around the nation, I awaited the jury’s verdict in the trial against George Huguely V for the murder of Yeardley Love in Charlottesville, Va. While the jury deliberated, many legal analysts and ...

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Jurors found a former University of Virginia lacrosse player guilty of second-degree murder Wednesday in the slaying of his ex-girlfriend that was fueled by jealousy over her relationship with another lacrosse player. Jurors met for nine hours ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Depending on who was talking, the prosecution’s star witness in the death penalty case against Lee E. Stephens was either a courageous observer who faced the wrath of his fellow inmates or a brazen gangster who only came ...

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A new study has found that jurors often struggle with how to distinguish reckless or knowing conduct on the part of defendants. The study, Sorting Guilty Minds, appeared in a recent issue of the New York University Law Review and ...

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A Washington County Circuit Court judge has agreed to a private reprimand for telling attorneys that they had less than 24 hours to prepare for a jury trial as part of an elaborate ruse to spur them to settle the ...

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LOS ANGELES — Defense attorneys for the doctor accused of killing Michael Jackson began their case Monday after prosecutors presented a portrait of the physician as the inept, distracted engineer of the King of Pop’s death. The first defense witnesses ...

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A judge said Tuesday he will consider letting jurors in a wrongful death trial go inside a prison bus on which an inmate was killed by another inmate. Baltimore City Circuit Judge Sylvester Cox reserved judgment on a plaintiffs’ motion ...

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State and federal appellate court clerks from across the United States are meeting in Annapolis this week to compare notes and discuss ways to better serve judges and attorneys and improve public access to the courts. The 38th Annual Meeting ...

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Just so we’re clear, I like the courtroom. I like juries, even when they don’t vote my way.  I like the Founders’ idea that we should have regular people from the community come and decide disputes between people. I think ...

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