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Runaway Jury ? Want to see what high priced Jury consultants ask ? - cbelt3 - 01-18-2012
For the political corruption trial of Jimmy DiMora, ex-Cuyahoga county Commisioner, who is being tried for a decade of corruption.
http://media2.newsnet5.com/uploads/WEWS_DimoraJuryQuestionairre.pdf
Woah.
Re: Runaway Jury ? Want to see what high priced Jury consultants ask ? - C(-)ris - 01-18-2012
And some people wonder why no one wants to serve on a jury. There is no way I would share all that information with any government entity willingly. Name, address, social security number. The rest is none of their damn business.
Re: Runaway Jury ? Want to see what high priced Jury consultants ask ? - beagledave - 01-18-2012
Questions 47-57?
Are they serious?
Re: Runaway Jury ? Want to see what high priced Jury consultants ask ? - Will Collier - 01-18-2012
That is MUCH more intrusive than the SF-86 form you have to fill out to get a security clearance.
Re: Runaway Jury ? Want to see what high priced Jury consultants ask ? - abevilac - 01-18-2012
For question 59, I would so put The Comedy Channel...:booty:
Re: Runaway Jury ? Want to see what high priced Jury consultants ask ? - cbelt3 - 01-18-2012
... and you're REQUIRED to fill it out completely, or you are subject to Contempt of Court.
I've filled out slightly less complete questionnaires in the past. But it was still crazy. And guess what ?
Your responses are PUBLIC RECORD.
Sheesh.
Re: Runaway Jury ? Want to see what high priced Jury consultants ask ? - C(-)ris - 01-18-2012
Decline to comment would be my answer for 95% of those questions.
Re: Runaway Jury ? Want to see what high priced Jury consultants ask ? - Marc Anthony - 01-18-2012
I think it was roughly a year ago that I was called to serve jury duty, and my form was very similar to the one linked. I felt that many of the questions were unnecessarily invasive. The only one that truly mattered, however, was the one that asked if there was anything that I could think of that would impair me from serving on the jury; I replied that I'm a staunch supporter of the concept of jury nullification and that I strictly reserved the right to find the law regardless of given instructions. I was not selected.
Re: Runaway Jury ? Want to see what high priced Jury consultants ask ? - Jimmypoo - 01-18-2012
There's a lot more going on than that. One of my best friends does that - and has been all the way to the Supreme Court. He engages in mostly IP cases - and you might guess who a client is based on the occasional post I make, though I find out nothing until it hits the news. Just a few details that one would have had to been present in the courtroom to know (which irritates me no end, when he has every tidbit!!!).
Having been involved as a sideline observer of this stuff since 1993, (because a candidate of mine's hiring was delayed because of an ongoing battle between Exxon & Phillips Petroleum back then, over polyethylene manufacturing technology - and the candidate worked for one, was going to the other, and was considered an expert witness on the patent), this is how I learned about the structure and various state filings in Federal District Courts - that mean "I want a license deal" or "I want to ultimately settle" OR "I want your head on a platter before the week is out!"
Colleagues of the consultant team include Ph.D. psychologists and similar analytic types with advanced degrees, be it law or even tech experts, but usually the latter were, themselves, involved in high end negotiation for licensing of intellectual property (One that I know did so, and instead of piling on a Ph.D. to his MS ChemE, he got a J.D. instead - while working full time, and oversaw all IP & licensing for one of the oil giants until he retired (I hate to admit to myself over 20 years have passed!!!).
From the insurance side, they engage in full blown mock trials using the same jury selection techniques after running paid ads for jurors - and have their own lawyers fight it out (as can any good lawyer) for the "other side" -- and decide whether to take it to trial or settle the insurance claim.
If you guys thought that form was intrusive... imagine combining it with people who are, on average, NOT AT ALL AVERAGE when it comes to reading people!!
This also comes from having those forms, and always taping the mock deliberations and often including an insider among the mock 12, to see how the cross sections of the region react, whether the topic generates natural leaders or will require one (which again they learn from running sometimes more than one mock trial, when the stakes are really high).
The cost, believe it or not, are pretty insignificant - especially relative to what is at stake. Sometimes it includes the above, sometimes it goes straight to filing and assisting in actual jury selection for the real thing, and remaining thru with the trial for consultation on who to direct conversation to, in the jury, based on experience in matching the "form info" with assumptions about what will be important to which member of the jury.
That all starts with Voir Dire - and goes from there. The above are just the tools for making Voir Dire a calculated success or a gut-feeling guess.
Re: Runaway Jury ? Want to see what high priced Jury consultants ask ? - the_poochies - 01-18-2012
On the "other side" I posted a tale about my jury duty experience and what the attorneys were paying doctors to tell the jury what they wanted us to hear: http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?2,1296568,1296727#msg-1296727