Juror privacy rights?
I’ve said before that lawyers fear jurors (and it’s clearly because they know they can’t control jurors and aren’t even sure they can persuade them). Surfing the web, I’ve come across several lawyer...
View ArticleCinderella’s Classmates and Commercial Exploitation
Witnesses’ faces should be obscured on camera, every time a trial is broadcast on commercial TV. Yesterday CNN’s In Session broadcast a young, former classmate of fire victim Calista Springer. Enough....
View Article“Now it’s up to the jury to decide” Michigan v Springer
That’s what CNN’s voice-over announced today in its broadcast of the verdict and sentencing of the Michigan couple charged with child abuse, torture, and murder of their special needs child. And that’s...
View Article“Does anyone in Florida understand what justice is?—Florida v Kananen
CNN’s In Session is reprising a first-degree murder case in which the adult daughter of abusive parents abetted her adult brother’s murder of their mother. The salacious “episode” is titled “Mummified...
View ArticleJury Selection in the Casey Anthony Trial—Part I
Yesterday, jury selection began for the Casey Anthony murder trial. Every minute of the voir dire is being broadcast nationwide on the unbelievably sleazy TruTV cable network. Yesterday, between...
View ArticleJury Selection in the Casey Anthony Trial—Part III
TruTV has no shame. Not only are they taking long commercial breaks during the jury voir dire, but they are broadcasting commercials for KY Jelly during discussions of the death penalty. The...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal for Casey Anthony et al.
Yesterday, Tim Miller, President of Texas Equusearch filed a suit against Casey Anthony for reimbursement of expenses incurred during the unnecessary search for her daughter—unnecessary because Casey...
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