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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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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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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."
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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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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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A tale set at the end of the twenty-first century finds the planet's divided hominid population subjected to the forces of a splintery metaconsciousness that inundates networks with plans for cataclysmic technologies, prompting an unwitting jury member to participate in a grueling decision.
7) Jury duty
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""Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces jury duty to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--Provided by publisher"--
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Colombia enfrenta un activo momento de reformas de sus sistemas procesales y de administración de justicia. Estos cambios crean el ambiente propicio para la renovación de las reflexiones teóricas y jurisprudenciales sobre el tema procesal, lo que permite la aparición de múltiples discursos: desde los tradicionales que desentrañan el renovado marco normativo, hasta las reflexiones críticas que dan cuenta de la presencia de nuevas conciencias...
17) The runaway jury
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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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