PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona's top court is eliminating the longstanding practice of allowing lawyers in criminal and civil trials in state courts to remove potential jurors without explanation, a move that ...

Arizona is taking a bold step toward reforming jury selection — specifically, how potential jurors may be removed from service for no given reason. Other states should take notice. Citing clear ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - An idea to cut peremptory challenges in misdemeanor trials from 10 to 6 drew judges and lawyers from all over California to a brainstorming session Tuesday to plot the course of ...

Every year, parties involved in civil actions in Clark County write thousands of dollars in checks for the right to change the judge assigned to their case. For $450, litigants in civil cases are ...

Let me begin by saying that the views I express are my own. I am now serving my 20th and last term on the New Jersey Supreme Court. In the 25 years before I became a judge, I tried approximately 60 ...

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[Nancy Gertner] Kenji Yoshino asks whether it is better to eliminate peremptory challenges altogether rather than risk their use in a discriminatory fashion. I understand the problem; Snyder , the ...

Five minutes before the end of the 2020 legislative session, California legislators passed a law that could drastically alter jury selection in state court trials. Designed to address bias in jury ...

PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona’s top court is eliminating the longstanding practice of allowing lawyers in criminal and civil trials in state courts to remove potential jurors without explanation, a move that ...