Comments on: HOW NOT TO ANSWER A JURY’S QUESTION http://cookcountypd.org/blog/2009/07/08/how-not-to-answer-a-jurys-question/ Latest news involving the Cook County Public Defenders Association AFSCME LOCAL 3315 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:38:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Amy Thompson http://cookcountypd.org/blog/2009/07/08/how-not-to-answer-a-jurys-question/comment-page-1/#comment-4841 Amy Thompson Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:14:03 +0000 http://cookcountypd.org/blog/?p=503#comment-4841 Joe, I hope you were joking. Joe, I hope you were joking.

]]> By: Bruce Mosbacher, Executive at Large http://cookcountypd.org/blog/2009/07/08/how-not-to-answer-a-jurys-question/comment-page-1/#comment-4823 Bruce Mosbacher, Executive at Large Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:49:22 +0000 http://cookcountypd.org/blog/?p=503#comment-4823 Say it Ain't So Joe: I think its fair to say that no U.S. reviewing court would find it ok for a trial judge to give her own unsworn testimony to a jury on any fact, let alone a fact she had no personal knowledge of. It was a huge "misstep" that took away from this defendant the most basic right of trial by jury. Bruce Say it Ain’t So Joe:

I think its fair to say that no U.S. reviewing court would find it ok for a trial judge to give her own unsworn testimony to a jury on any fact, let alone a fact she had no personal knowledge of. It was a huge “misstep” that took away from this defendant the most basic right of trial by jury.

Bruce

]]> By: Joe http://cookcountypd.org/blog/2009/07/08/how-not-to-answer-a-jurys-question/comment-page-1/#comment-4818 Joe Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:18:55 +0000 http://cookcountypd.org/blog/?p=503#comment-4818 I realize that there are certain procedures that the court must go through in order to maintain the best, most accurate version of evidence possible, but this seems like a really small misstep with an unjustly enormous outcome. I realize that there are certain procedures that the court must go through in order to maintain the best, most accurate version of evidence possible, but this seems like a really small misstep with an unjustly enormous outcome.

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