When former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann's prosecution for alleged rape was abandoned by the ACT government in 2022, it put juror misconduct in the spotlight. Queensland barrister Jeffrey Hunter KC says there's a dearth of data in Australia about juror misconduct, including how often it happens. Those instances include a WA juror posting on Facebook on day one of a …
MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota judge on Friday denied Derek Chauvin’ s request for a new trial in George Floyd ’s death, saying the defense has not shown that the former Minneapolis police officer was deprived of his right to a fair trial. Nelson argued that intense publicity around Floyd’s death tainted the jury pool and that the trial should have …