{"id":681,"date":"2004-03-30T08:24:50","date_gmt":"2004-03-30T08:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=681"},"modified":"2004-03-30T08:24:50","modified_gmt":"2004-03-30T08:24:50","slug":"on-naming-jurors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/03\/on-naming-jurors\/","title":{"rendered":"On naming jurors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/weblogs\/dougclifton\/index.ssf?\/mtlogs\/cleve_dougclifton\/archives\/2004_03.html#018896\">Doug Clifton<\/a> says he doesn&#8217;t really know why newsies haven&#8217;t done it in the past. It&#8217;s like one of those policies people forgot to write down. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It seems to me that the Tyco case might warrant a suspension of the unwritten rule.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAn audience of millions might know that a particular juror owns Tyco stock; or was heard to call the defendants crooks; or is related to a lifelong friend of a defendant; or any one of hundreds of things that the juror might not reveal in the selection process but that might affect juror objectivity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the Tyco case we had a juror who was supposedly gumming up the works, which raises (see, Bill, I didn&#8217;t say &#8220;begs&#8221;) the question of who that juror is. Tough call &#8212; I&#8217;d lean toward naming the juror in a civil case, but if it were a mob trial I&#8217;d probably be more circumspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Clifton says he doesn&#8217;t really know why newsies haven&#8217;t done it in the past. It&#8217;s like one of those policies people forgot to write down. It seems to me that the Tyco case might warrant a suspension of the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/03\/on-naming-jurors\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}