A further 20percentt were errors caused by faulty instructions given to juries by the judge.
As a frequent defendant in libel trials, Pearson learned to confuse juries by gratefully shaking the hand of whatever witness had just testified against him.
The Staten Island Hotel, once a Holiday Inn, is one of 12 hotels approved for the city's juries by the Office of Court Administration.
Civil-rights advocates were bought off with an amendment facilitating the dilution of southern all-white juries by one or two blacks without altering the unlikelihood of getting the 12 votes needed for conviction.
But in the past their opponents have swayed juries by lining up women who have had implants and were (for whatever reason) genuinely sick, and saying: "My client is the evidence".
[C2.] A Court Test for Arbitration In the 1990's, businesses sought to pare legal costs and reduce their exposure to unpredictable juries by making employees agree to resolve all workplace disputes in nonjudicial forums.
