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Why no public record search?
Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, October 03 2012 @ 11:32 AM EDT
Because there's a good chance it'll find nothing?

You're assuming everything is available on the world wide wibble, but that's
only true of recent stuff. For example, this Seagate lawsuit almost predates the
wibble itself. (The events it's about do.)

Cheers,
Wol

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Why no public record search?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 03 2012 @ 02:28 PM EDT
Somebody please correct me if wrong, but from what I read it looked like jury
selection happened the day before the trial. Not much time to do extensive
research on them.

Also, if jurors are assigned like they do here in Texas, they were summoned to a
big room from where they got picked randomly among hundredths and assigned to
courts around the county.

So they would have to run deep background checks on everyone of hundredths
summoned by the county on that day.

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Why no public record search?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 03 2012 @ 10:08 PM EDT
Did Samsung utilise jury consultants either before jury selection?
Did Samsung utilize jury consultants during jury selection?
Did Samsung utilize one or more jury consultants during the trial?

Assuming that California allows jury consultants to run background checks,
then, if Samsung used jury consultants, the odds are that Samsung knew of
the other cases long before the end of the trial.

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Why no public record search? FOR PRIVACY
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 06 2012 @ 09:29 AM EDT
If jurors names and details were put up for public scrutiny,
the I can see all sorts of dangers - revenge from criminals
who have been convicted by the jury for example.

It was by pure chance that Hogan was caught out due to the
fact that the trial lawyer's wife was involved in Hogan's
lawsuit 20 years earlier, and the fact that he went public
afterwards - no wonder Hogan was so cocky about lying in
court, acting as an unchallengeable expert witness,
orchestrating the jury to ignore jury instruction, and then
boasting about it in the media.

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