Hiring jurors as consultants

Unseemly? Dangerous to the legal system’s reputation for integrity? If so, that hasn’t stopped some lawyers from hiring as consultants jurors who served on panels hearing their cases, including a much-publicized Orange County, Calif. rape trial that ended in a hung jury. We were onto the trend last Sept. 24, and now the Christian Science […]

Unseemly? Dangerous to the legal system’s reputation for integrity? If so, that hasn’t stopped some lawyers from hiring as consultants jurors who served on panels hearing their cases, including a much-publicized Orange County, Calif. rape trial that ended in a hung jury. We were onto the trend last Sept. 24, and now the Christian Science Monitor covers it (Marty Graham, “Flap ensues over hiring ex-jurors”, Mar. 2).

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