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The Hanged Juror: Category Archive for Jury Rhetoric

If you could ask a prospective juror one question, what should it be?

Baez’s Closing

“No matter what that laughing man over there says”

Casey Anthony Story—Weird and Scary

Casey Anthony Trial—Rhetoric of Cross-Examining Defense Witnesses

Rhetoric of Jury Deliberations in the Casey Anthony Trial

It isn’t just Casey Anthony who’s in deep trouble

Welcome to Anthony World!

Texas v Baker—A Mistress Named Bull?

The Adversarial System, Rhetorical Battles, and Chess

Another TN Medical Examiner to the Rescue

South Carolina v Rye—Finders of fact find something very wrong in their neighborhood

Jury Selection Begins Soon for the Black Widow Retrial

Chess Openings in Court--Black Moves Second

Chess openings in court—the rhetoric of opening statements

Casey Anthony “hoist on her own petard”

Happy New Year and the Rhetoric of Chess in the Courtroom

When does the jury get to talk?

I guess they don’t like nurses in Tennessee—Chason Trial

Why shouldn’t Elaine Clermont do jail time? Her heroes did.

Elaine Clermont—Martyr Mom or Seriously Misguided?

Why didn’t Carla Hughes talk?

Cell phone forensics—Keyon to Carla, incoming

The problem with pointing an accusing finger

Sometimes the jury gets it wrong

Darling Guilty of Manslaughter

Darling Trial—Poor “Rhetor” Rhetoric on Both Sides

Andy Galek Murder Trial—Privacy of innocent bystanders

Jury Duty in Ancient Athens

Did you shoot Denise Lee?

The Shakespearean Equivalent of the Castillo Case

Castillo Jury – What are they thinking?

While we’re talking about closing arguments in the Castillo trial . . . .

Alvaro Castillo’s Crime and Punishment

Did Castillo Lie or Did He Compartmentalize?

I must have been hearing things in the Alvaro Castillo trial yesterday . . . .

Forensic Science and Hereditary Mental Disorders (Alvaro Castillo Trial)

A Different Point of View on Alvaro Castillo

Jury in Castillo Trial – I’m convinced they get it

A Question from The Hung Juror to the Castillo Judge

Castillo Trial – Tiptoeing around the 800 lb. gorilla

Testimony of Alvaro Castillo’s Mother

Appealing Verdicts, Unappealing Spouses, and Pretrial Publicity

Accusations from the Grave: WI trial of Mark Jensen

Trial of Jerome Sydney Barrett -- The Law of Serial Killing

Thomas Fast and the Who Really Did It Defense

Could“Clark Rockefeller’s” Ex Have Gotten Him Some Help?

“Jurors see everything that goes on in the court . . .”

No Verdict Yet in Case of Trooper Higbee

Trooper Higbee’s Testimony

What’s Wrong with Deliberating on Fridays?

Expert Witnesses in the Trooper Higbee Trial

Trooper Higbee Hears the Definitions of Normal and Usual

The Calculus of Expert Testimony: Trooper Higbee Trial

Trooper Higbee Trial: Accident Reconstruction

Trooper Higbee Trial: TruTV sees things differently

Trooper Higbee Trial: What did the jury hear?

Trooper Higbee Trial: Monday’s arguments about hearsay

Jury Nullification or Just Bafflement

What would it be like to a defendant called “The Black Widow”?

It defies the odds—but it’s true

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Suicide or Homicide?

Phil Spector’s Prior Bad Acts and California Evidence Code

Phil Spector Verdict: Jurors believe in the truth; lawyers believe in the law

Phil Spector Jury: What took so long?

Fred Cooper DNA: At last, the experts do it right

Brandon Craig Q & A: If Lawyers Want to Know What Happens in the Jury Room, Read the Handwriting

Another Jury Hung Out to Dry? Brandon Craig Jury

Maybe it is double jeopardy after all in the Craig trial?

Should a spouse always be the first “prime suspect”?

Phil Spector: Will the Jury Quibble over Words?

A Juror Judges the Eye-Witnesses

Yale’s James Q. Whitman on “Reasonable Doubt”

Reasonable Doubt in “Old England” and Its Old Bailey

Hung Jury: Dossett-Leath Trial

Dossett-Leath: A Smoking Gun?

Dossett-Leath Trial: The Jury Investigates?

A Case of Strong Poison?: The Jury Wants to Know

A Real Courtroom Drama and No One Seems to Care but Us Mystery Mavens

Lists of Reasonable Doubts

Wicca Kathleen Hilton Verdict, More than just a reasonable doubt—a solution to whodunit

O.J.'s Stuff and A Juror's Question for the Cop