In 2009, Shirin Bryant watched as an all-white jury acquitted a white police detective who shot and killed her 18-year-old brother, Jashon, in the north end of Hartford. The detective, Robert Lawlor, ...

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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - You've probably heard of a grand jury in the news or on TV crime shows but what exactly is a grand jury? And how is it different than a regular trial jury? The simplest ...

I didn't want to write this, but I feel compelled to after my recent term of service on a Harris County grand jury. Our grand jury system in Harris County is broken. Something desperately needs to be ...

The case of Ahmaud Arbery has become a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement and over the last two and half weeks, as the trial unfolded, race took center stage both inside and outside the ...

Lawyers including top barristers and retired judges urge the government to drop a plan to abolish some jury trials.

Jury nullification is a fancy term for what it’s called when juries — or, in this case, grand juries — say no. It doesn’t happen very often, which is why you may have never heard of it. The old line ...

Yakima County soon will see its first jury trial since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to a new jury selection system at the Yakima SunDome. There, prospective jurors will be spread out ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kentucky authorities will give the public a rare glimpse at a secret aspect of the criminal justice system when they release ...

Thanks largely to Republican political tactics, the courts were already losing legitimacy for millions of Americans before a jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty Friday. Progressives are now afraid ...

President Joe Biden said Friday he stands by the jury's decision after Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted on all charges in his homicide trial. "I stand by what the jury has concluded. The jury system ...

MIDLAND, TX (KWES) - For years, Midland County has struggled with getting people to show up for jury duty. "I would print 1,000 jury summons and send them out per week. We were receiving about a 17.2 ...