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Questioning Potential Jurors Undermines the Very Basis of the Jury System

Commentary The attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell are pressing for a retrial on the grounds that one of the jurors failed to reveal before jury selection that he had been sexually ...

March 10, 2022BY Theodore Dalrymple

Hate Crime or Publicity Stunt? Chicago Jury to Hear Case in Jussie Smollett Trial

On a frigid Chicago night in January 2019, actor Jussie Smollett, a star on the TV drama "Empire," ...

November 29, 2021BY Reuters

Woman Gets Life Sentence for Helping Husband Plan Killings

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—An Alabama woman received a life sentence Wednesday for helping her husband plan the 2015 killings of ...

October 28, 2021BY The Associated Press

Supreme Court Considers Whether Ruling on Nonunanimous Convictions Should Apply Retroactively

A Supreme Court decision earlier this year that barred nonunanimous jury convictions should be applied retroactively to existing ...

December 2, 2020BY Matthew Vadum

Citing Racist Origins, Supreme Court Strikes Down Nonunanimous Jury Rules in Louisiana and Oregon

Convicting an accused person of a serious offense with a less-than-unanimous jury verdict, as two states had allowed, ...

April 20, 2020BY Matthew Vadum