There’s been a lot of talk this year of polls and polling errors, but a polling error of a very different sort—a show-of-hands poll taken of jurors just after they handed down a conviction—meant that the conviction had to ...

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By Taylor Lyden In this new age of regional lockdowns and social distancing, counsel have had to adjust trial preparation significantly. While some jurisdictions are slowly opening and attempting to hold trials safely, many places are still in the early ...

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A federal jury sided Wednesday with novelist Nicholas Sparks and the private Christian school he founded in his North Carolina hometown, dismissing claims by the school’s former headmaster that he was unjustly fired and then slandered by the author. Jurors ...

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One of the great privileges of being a judge is to be able to speak with jurors after a trial, to thank them and to ask them questions about the process. Many jurors, with a little encouragement, will offer their ...

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A multimillion-dollar jury verdict over construction defects must be reduced due to an offset error, the South Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled. The ruling means that Marick Home Builders will pay $1,179,249 instead of the $5,145,812 that the trial ...

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For the first time in 28 years, pay for federal jurors has increased, but it still remains below the federal minimum wage. The change was included in the $1.3 trillion federal spending bill that passed March 23, The Washington Post reports. ...

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The truth is out there — but circuit judges can no longer tell jurors to search or seek it, according to the South Carolina Supreme Court’s decision in a case involving a convicted murderer serving life in prison. Judge’s were ...

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The South Carolina Supreme Court wants trial courts to take note: They are no longer allowed to instruct juries in criminal sexual assault cases that the testimony of the victim doesn’t need to be corroborated. A Nov. 2 per curiam ...

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U.S. v. Clarke (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-164-16, 20 pp.) (Wynn, J.) No. 15-4299, Nov. 18, 2016; USDC at Alexandria, Va.; 4th Cir. Holding: A district court did not err in refusing to suppress evidence found in an inventory search of ...

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In late March, a trial judge in Charleston continued a post-conviction relief hearing centered on a study that was used to support allegations of race-based jury selection in a death penalty case after a prosecutor pointed out that the analysis ...

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