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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 08 2012 @ 03:18 AM EDT |
It depends on the Jury.
In this case, they couldn't have taken the time to read them.
However, I know that on a Jury I was on, we looked over the exibits carefully
while arguing and pointed out things that the Lawyers had now highlighted[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 08 2012 @ 10:20 AM EDT |
Documents are evidence, just as testimony offered at trial
is. It's the jury's job to determine which evidence is
relevant to making its decision.
While a jury certainly CAN read every page of every exhibit,
it's not obligated to do so. First, it's a practical
impossibility in some trials - recall Oracle v. Google went
to the hundreds of thousands of pages.
Secondly, the jury is NOT there to do the parties' work for
them. The parties are supposed to put on a convincing case
supported by evidence. The jury CAN dig through documents
on the offhand chance they'll find something they find
interesting that neither side brought up, if they want to.
But they generally don't.
More frequently, the jury will rely on what was said to the
document by witnesses. Which makes sense - it's the
lawyers' job to put on a case, to tell the jury what they
should take from a document, and use documents to support
witness statements. If the other side disagrees on the
meaning of a document, that's why there's discovery, cross
examination, and the ability to call your own witnesses. If
the jury isn't clear, or finds the testimony conflicting or
confusing, they're within their rights to read the actual
piece of paper and decide for themselves.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 08 2012 @ 03:20 PM EDT |
this bunch had had enough and were looking to get things finished as fast as
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