BY JULIE CAMPANINI BridgeTower Media Newswires It is no secret to defendants that jurors expect products to be safe and that companies that fail to follow their own policies are vulnerable. A trend in litigation is to move safety to ...

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Four black voters and a branch of the NAACP sued a Mississippi prosecutor on Monday, asking a federal judge to order him to stop excluding African Americans from juries. The lawsuit against District Attorney Doug Evans is an outgrowth of ...

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A mistrial in a North Carolina murder case has been declared, as a juror went into premature labor after deliberations had begun. Citing a release from the Mecklenburg County district attorney’s office, The Charlotte Observer cites a release that says ...

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CHARLOTTE (AP) A search warrant says a defendant in North Carolina texted a juror while in court and tried to bribe her. Thirty-four-year-old Wesley Westbrook is charged with harassment and offering a bribe in connection with the case. Westbrook was ...

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U.S. v. Powell (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-058-17, 10 pp.) (Niemeyer, J.) No. 15-6232, March 1, 2017; USDC at Raleigh, N.C. (Fox, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: A defendant convicted on federal drug and firearms charges is not entitled to habeas relief ...

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Senior U.S. District Court Judge James Fox has been on the bench for 34 years. And he began practicing law in 1957. So when Fox says he’s witnessing something in court for the first time it’s noteworthy. During what was ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A trial judge erred when he sentenced a jury foreman to spend 30 days in a North Carolina jail for taking notes on his cellphone, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. The unanimous decision by ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled decisively in favor of a death-row inmate in Georgia on Monday, chastising state prosecutors for improperly keeping African-Americans off the jury that convicted him of killing a white woman. The justices ruled 7-1 ...

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Any attorney who has tried an intellectual property case knows that presenting the evidence in a way that jurors fully comprehend is no simple task.

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CHARLOTTE (AP) — People who serve on juries are sometimes exposed to graphic or traumatizing evidence, and now North Carolina wants to help them cope with that responsibility. The Charlotte Observer reported that the Administrative Office of the Courts has ...

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