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Juror Polarization: As the Political Season Ends, Understand It’s Not Just a Season

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As I write this, it is finally and mercifully Election Day, 2024. For many of us on the edges of our seats awaiting the returns, we might be considering the question, “What brought us to this?” The answer is that recent...more

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Defending Against Courtroom Conspiracies Through Storytelling

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Misinformation "poses an unprecedented threat in 2024," according to NBC News. No matter which side of the many social divides someone stands on, they can find a readily available source to support their opinion—and a...more

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Using Internet Research to Get to Know Your Prospective Jurors

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With the rise of social media, there is now a great deal of public information existing on the internet about many individuals. As part of jury selection, this information can be gathered and analyzed to provide attorneys...more

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Remember that Feelings Trump Facts

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In recent days, I’ve been thinking about all of the “QAnon” followers, and how and whether they are reconciling recent events with their belief in Donald Trump’s role in purging the top echelons of politics and society before...more

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Political Affiliations and Jury Selection: Using Social Media and Voir Dire to Impact Juror Selection and Outcomes

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With today’s ever-changing political climate, a juror’s political affiliation is an important factor to consider throughout the voir dire process.  Political attitudes can create gridlocks, contention and animosity among...more

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Consider COVID Attitude Changes 2: A Revised Information Diet

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It can be helpful to think of the information that we are exposed to in the same way as we think about the food we consume: a diet. Like a diet, the information consumed is not the same for everyone, and it is not the same...more

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Ask the Court to Help You Look for Stealth Jurors

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When Trump associate Roger Stone was sentenced last month for obstruction of Congress and witness tampering, there was some pushback from media, Stone’s legal team, and the President himself targeting the jury’s foreperson, a...more

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Ethics Rules for Using Social Media in Legal Matters

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Social media is increasingly important in eDiscovery, employment investigations and jury research. Using social media in legal and HR matters raises significant ethical issues. Lawyers and other legal professionals should...more

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Understand Your Jurors’ Online Reality

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The idea of a courtroom trial is that it is a sealed system. The fact-finders arrive in a neutral state of mind, they receive and review only what is vetted and presented in court, and then they deliberate to a verdict...more

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See the Threads of Conspiracy Thinking

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As our team was conducting a recent social media analysis on a jury pool, one particular potential juror stood out. He was, as he proudly proclaimed in his public online messages, a “flat-earther.” And this belief of his,...more

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A Trial Attorney’s “Google” Responsibilities

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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media services store the personal and professional information of millions of users. To the enterprising trial attorney, that’s millions of tweets, posts, photos, ‘likes’, pins,...more

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Friend Request Denied: Judge Asks Attorneys to Refrain from Social Media Searches of Jurors

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In late March 2016, a California federal judge asked both Google, Inc. and Oracle America, Inc. to voluntarily consent to a ban against Internet and social media research on empaneled or prospective jurors until the...more

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Google and Oracle Agree to Ban Internet Research on Jurors … this Time Around

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In a March 25, 2016 Order, Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California gave Google and Oracle the choice between agreeing to a ban on conducting Internet and social media research on jurors until the trial is...more

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Friending and Following Jurors: The Ethical Boundaries of Researching Jurors on Social Media

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What are the ethical boundaries of an attorney’s internet research of jurors? Before the ubiquity of the internet, an attorney obviously couldn’t walk up to a potential juror in a restaurant and strike up a conversation. But...more

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Beware of the possibility that jurors may be tweeting and blogging during trial—ignoring admonitions from the trial judge. One...

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Many people cannot control their social media impulses and this is now becoming an issue during trials. Disregarding the court’s instructions that jurors are not to discuss the case with anyone during the trial, there are...more

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