Jessica Brylo
Holmes (Aurora Theater Shooting) Jury Selection Q&A
With the Holmes jury selection underway and the whole world watching, I thought it relevant to tap into some of the issues that are...
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Jessica Brylo
- Apr 7, 2013
- 2 min
Do You Really Win or Lose Your Case In Jury Selection?
It’s been said many times that you win or lose your case in jury selection. But is this really true? Is jury selection so critically...
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Jessica Brylo
- Sep 6, 2012
- 2 min
Jurors United? Something to Consider During Jury Selection
The jurors in the Drew Peterson case are drawing some media attention. While it seems to be out of a movie (Runaway Jury, in fact), the...
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Jessica Brylo
- Aug 15, 2012
- 2 min
What To Do (And Not Do) With Short Voir Dire Time
Voir dire time in many places is now limited to 15-30 minutes (if you get attorney-conducted voir dire at all!). Aside from filing...
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Jessica Brylo
- May 20, 2012
- 2 min
Where You Are Losing Leverage With Preponderance
Preponderance is one major foundation of all civil lawsuits. If jurors truly made their decisions on the basis of more likely right than...
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Jessica Brylo
- May 7, 2012
- 2 min
Maximizing your Budget for Voir Dire
The more I am called in to help attorneys with jury selection, the more I realize their money may have been spent better elsewhere. Am I...
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Jessica Brylo
- Feb 6, 2012
- 2 min
How to Use “Herd Mentality” to Your Advantage
As advanced as humans are, we are still primitively just mammals belonging to a herd. Animals and people stay in herds because it...
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Jessica Brylo
- Jan 12, 2012
- 3 min
What Do Jurors Care About?
Do you ever feel like jurors decided your case randomly or based on something other than the evidence you presented? It’s highly...
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Jessica Brylo
- Nov 1, 2011
- 1 min
Have a Little Faith…In Jurors
I often come across attorneys who have trouble trusting jurors. I can’t blame them – it’s hard to give up control over your case to the...
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Jessica Brylo
- Oct 22, 2011
- 2 min
Detecting Lies During Voir Dire
There have been many studies done on lie detection and the results are often disheartening. Most of us, including police officers, fare...
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Jessica Brylo
- Aug 18, 2011
- 2 min
Do Jurors Get “Poisoned” During Voir Dire?
Attorneys are often worried about asking questions in voir dire that elicit responses that are harmful to your side of the case. For...
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Jessica Brylo
- Jun 19, 2011
- 2 min
Group Dynamics & Jury Selection
When you are selection (or de-selecting) jurors, it is easy to focus on individual jurors to the point that you forget about how jurors...
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Jessica Brylo
- Apr 14, 2011
- 1 min
Useless SJQ Proposed in Criminal Trial
It still astounds me how unaware the court system and some attorneys are regarding juror bias and prejudice. In this article (click for...
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Jessica Brylo
- Mar 6, 2011
- 2 min
Being Transparent During Voir Dire
Attorneys often make the mistake in voir dire of failing to be honest with jurors. I often see attorneys try to hide bad facts or spend...
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Jessica Brylo
- Feb 2, 2011
- 3 min
Dealing with the CSI Effect
You may have heard of the “CSI Effect.” It is a more recent phenomenon that is so named because it is caused in good part by television...
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Jessica Brylo
- Jan 25, 2011
- 2 min
Dealing with Juror Misconceptions
The law is daunting. Half the time, attorneys don’t even understand what legal writings mean and yet every day, we ask lay persons to...
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Jessica Brylo
- Jan 23, 2011
- 3 min
The Art of Voir Dire
Some cases end after jury selection – you’ve either set yourself up to win or lose the trial. But the result normally does not revolve...
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