Our judicial system requires juries to review only evidence produced at trial. That is the system we have had since before 1776. A juror who brings in a medical dictionary to better understand medical testimony would violate the oath they take as jurors. The theory is that a jury should review only the evidence that
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How To Scam A Lawyer
By Thomas J. Crane on
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For some years now, some clever scam artists have bilked many otherwise bright and clever lawyers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. I myself have received this same email dozens of times. They always go like this: "Hi, my ex lives in your jurisdiction (note the scammers never actually name your state or city).
“Anonymous” Posts Were Posted By Prosecutor
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You only think that what you are posting will remain anonymous on the world wide web. A federal prosecutor in New Orleans learned that painful lesson recently. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Jan Mann had been posting anonymous comments on a New Orleans Time Picayune website under the online alias of "eweman." Her comments were directed…