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There's a Verdict in Apple v. Samsung (Groklaw)There's a Verdict in Apple v. Samsung (Groklaw)Posted Aug 28, 2012 6:09 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)In reply to: There's a Verdict in Apple v. Samsung (Groklaw) by Kluge Parent article: There's a Verdict in Apple v. Samsung (Groklaw)
actually, during the trial the Juror's can send questions to the Judge. A couple years ago when I was on a drunk driving case, I did exactly that, and after the next break there was testimony on exactly what I had asked about.
This was a question to an expert witness.
However, remember that as much as you may want to know something, there may be legal reasons why it's not allowed to matter.
Again in the drunk driving case, while the Jury was deliberating, one Juror mentioned that she wished that she knew why the defendant didn't take the stand, and several of us pointed out that the Judge had told us that we weren't allowed to speculate on that. There are a LOT of landmines out there if the Jury starts investigating.
a Grand Jury is a different story, they are empowered to do exactly that, but they don't decide that someone is guilty, they only decide that someone is likely enough to be guilty that the state is allowed to file charges against the person.
you really don't want the people directing the investigation to be the ones deciding guilt.
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There's a Verdict in Apple v. Samsung (Groklaw) Posted Aug 28, 2012 17:28 UTC (Tue) by Kluge (guest, #2881) [Link]
>actually, during the trial the Juror's can send questions to the Judge. A couple years ago when I was on a drunk driving case, I did exactly that, and after the next break there was testimony on exactly what I had asked about.
Wow. I had no idea that such things happened. I thought that jurors were only allowed to ask about evidence already introduced and points of law. I wonder how general this is in US jurisdictions.
>There are a LOT of landmines out there if the Jury starts investigating.
True. But as long as jury questions are mediated by the judge, it doesn't seem like that much of a problem (except for the judge, that is).
There's a Verdict in Apple v. Samsung (Groklaw) Posted Aug 28, 2012 18:31 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
you can ask anything you want, it may be that the Judge decides not to do anything with the request, but you can ask :-)
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