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If you want to know what real, live jurors have to say about witnesses, judges, and lawyers, then this is the book for you. James Stanton and Trey Cox articulate ten rules every trial lawyer should know and use every time he or she appears before a jury. These are not lawyer rules; these are The Texas Jury Rules. The Rules are based on hours and hours of actual juror responses in post-trial, video-taped interviews. Before your next trial, arm yourself...
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The Jamaican legal system can be a complicated and intimidating thing, especially for those that have had no prior experience with it.This book is to inform those of us that have been called to serve as jurors what to expect. At the time when I was called to serve as a juror, I had a hard time finding out what the details were and exactly what to expect. I had never stepped into a courtroom before, and this was my first experience with the Jamaican...
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La relativa singularidad del caso colombiano en el contexto latinoamericano orienta el objetivo de este libro: indagar en la omisión del juicio político como herramiente para juzgar presidentes y expresidentes democráticamente electos en Colombia. Pese a la existencia de pruebas que podrían relacionar a presidentes con actos de corrupción y violaciones a la Constitución, el Congreso históricamente no ha iniciado una investigación y un potencial...
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In a passionate warning that is not only well-reasoned, as becomes a renowned former trial lawyer and present federal judge, but is also a compelling and entertaining read, William L. Dwyer defies those who would abolish our jury system and hand over its power to judges or to panels of "experts." He aims, by making his readers aware of what should be done, to help us save what he calls "America's most democratic institution."
In an overview of litigation's...
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Juries have a bad reputation. Often jurors are seen as incompetent, biased and unpredictable, and jury trials are seen as a waste of time and money. In fact, so few criminal and civil cases reach a jury today that trial by jury is on the verge of extinction. Juries are being replaced by mediators, arbitrators and private judges. The wise trial of "Twelve Angry Men" has become a fiction. As a result, a foundation of American democracy is about to vanish.
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Storytelling is primal for humans-one of the few human traits that is truly universal across cultures and through all of known history. The goal of Storytelling for the Defense is to help defense attorneys understand and reclaim the fundamental value of storytelling in the context of persuading jurors and winning cases. Defense attorneys must realize that the power of the narrative is not the sole purview of the plaintiff. The book demonstrates that...
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IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 23
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In Biloxi, Mississippi, a woman sues a tobacco company for the death of her husband from lung cancer. The protagonists are a jury fixer, that is a lawyer whose role is to assure a jury favorable to the company, and a rogue juror whom the fixer cannot eliminate or control. This is a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake which begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at...
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 20
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Harry Johnson tells Richard Jury a story of a good friend whose wife, son and dog disappear one day when they were in Surrey. When Jury investigates all seems to be just as Johnson described- Until they find the body.
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An argument for the constitutional responsibility to participate in jury duty
It's easy to forget how important the jury really is to America. The right to be a juror is one of the fundamental rights guaranteed to all eligible citizens. The right to trial by jury helped spark the American Revolution, was quickly adopted at the Constitutional Convention, and is the only right that appears in both the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. But for most...
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 12
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The murder is in America, but the call goes out to Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury. Accompanied by his aristocratic friend Melrose Plant and by Sargeant Wiggins, Jury arrives in Baltimore, Maryland, home of zealous Orioles fans, mouth-watering crabs, and Edgar Allen Poe. In his efforts to solve the case, Jury rubs elbows with a delicious and suspicious cast of characters, embarking on a trail that leads to a unique tavern called "The Horse...
11) The crush
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"Notorious hit man Ricky Lozada is on trail and Dr. Rennie Newton is on his jury. She soon delivers a verdict of not guilty-and gains a new admirer. But days after Lozada's release, one of Rennie's professional rivals is brutally murdered. Although Lozada's dark shadow looms over the case, Rennie becomes the prime suspect ... while Lozada stalks her, growing more obsessed with having her. She forms an uneasy alliance with Wick Threadgill, a rogue...
12) Law & old order
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Liz Eckardt is busy juggling the demands of her colorful guests at the Old Mansion Inn in the delightful town of Pleasant Creek, Indiana, when she is summoned to jury duty. Expecting it to be a quiet respite from the hectic pace at the inn, Liz prepares to escape into a good mystery novel. But the waiting room is far from quiet. Fellow juror Nora Wexler is loud, rude, and spends her free time insulting people and complaining about her ex-husband....
13) The last juror
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
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In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details and the paper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt was tried before...
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For Rose Gardner, working at the DMV on a Friday afternoon is bad even before she sees a vision of herself dead. She's had plenty of visions, usually boring ones like someone's toilet's overflowed, but she's never seen one of herself before. When her overbearing momma winds up murdered on her sofa instead, two things are certain: There isn't enough hydrogen peroxide in the state of Arkansas to get that stain out, and Rose is the prime suspect.
15) The Stargazey
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 15
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November. In a bleak month, a bleak Richard Jury takes an aimless ride on one of London's icons--the old double-decker bus, a #14 traveling the Fulham Road. His attention is caught by a woman "with hair so gossamer-pale you could see the moon through it," wearing a fur coat, boarding his bus in front of a pub called the Stargazey.
16) Jerusalem Inn
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 5
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From the rough but colorful pub that provides the novel's title, to the snowboard Gothic estate nearby, the chilly English landscape has never held more atmosphere-or thwarted romance. And Jury will never have a more mysterious Christmas. Five Days Before Christmas – On his way to a brief holiday (he thinks) Jury meets a woman he could fall in love with. He meets her in a snow covered graveyard-not, he thinks, the best way to begin an attachment....
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 3
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Richard Jury, Superintendent, Scotland Yard, is summoned to Littlebourne, a village forty miles from London, to solve a murder.
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 24
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"In the latest series outing, The Knowledge, the Scotland Yard detective nearly meets his match in a Baker Street Irregulars-like gang of kids and a homicide case that reaches into east Africa. Robbie Parsons is one of London's finest, a black cab driver who knows every street, every theater, every landmark in the city by heart. In his backseat is a man with a gun in his hand--a man who brazenly committed a crime in front of the Artemis Club, a rarefied...
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 4
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Penguin Books, Ltd
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1984
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English
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