He was in court Thursday for the culmination of the selection of the jury that will decide whether he is liable for the deaths.
Because of the size of the class, jury selection is already proving difficult.
However, if at the end of one day in the jury selection room a juror is not empaneled, the duty is fulfilled.
The cornerstone of Robinson's appeal is a Michigan State University study of jury selection in North Carolina in 1994, the time during which Robinson was sentenced, that found prosecutors struck blacks from juries at a rate of more than 2-to-1 compared with whites.
Selection of a jury to hear the trial of Raj Rajaratnam begins Tuesday morning.
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In these difficult economic times, should a loss of wages be made a part of the jury selection process?
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Final selection of the Laureates is made by an international jury, chaired by Nobel Prize winners.
During jury selection, Judge Holwell had passed out fifty-two questions for members of the jury pool.
"Robinson introduced a wealth of evidence showing the persistent, pervasive and distorting role of race in jury selection throughout North Carolina, " Weeks wrote in his ruling.
While the entire trial, including jury selection and deliberation, was only two and half days, half of that was the closing arguments of the prosecution.
Jury selection took four days, the hearing of evidence ten days.
Five weeks before jury selection was set to begin in the case of U.S.A. v.
In the jury selection process, she told the judge that one of her sons had been - had pled guilty to a drug charge.
In Philadelphia, Mississippi, jury selection began today for a suspect in the 1964 murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner.
Jury selection is expected to be completed today in the trial of Lewis Libby, known to his friends and now by many others as Scooter.
The trial of Timothy McVeigh, accused of the Oklahoma City bombing in April 1995, opened in Denver with jury selection.
Information that was not shared with jurors has triggered some of the biggest fireworks so far in the trial, which kicked off with jury selection Monday and testimony Tuesday and Friday.
Jury selection can be a long arduous process of selecting members from a larger pool, questioning of the jurors on their own background (nothing too probing) and whether they think they have any biases that would impact the case (previously being duped by a stock broker might get one out of serving in this trial).
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