British statistician, geneticist and probability guru, Peter Donnelly, recently gave a TED lecture about some of the common mistakes that pe...

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a LinkedIn poll about work-related podcast listening habits. I had a few reasons for being curious about thi...

Nicholas Nassim Taleb's book, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, introduced a wide lay audience to the the "blac...

Leaders become forepersons and forepersons control deliberations In the most recent issue of The Jury Expert , the excellent online journal ...

Oh, the humanity!!!! Arghh!!!!! Ack!!! WTF, WTF, WTF?????!!!! Well, that was me yesterday about this time. You see, I had written about 5 pa...

The Worst Kept Secret in Criminal Law We all knew it. Right? There are lots of reasons why individual jurors vote with their peers despite m...

A Rejoinder to the Amicus Brief filed by Samuel Gross, et al. In Bowen v. Oregon , the Supreme Court of the United States is asked to recon...

I am in discussions with a major legal podcast producer to host a regular podcast on juries and jury trials. I would review the latest devel...

Back in June, I posted a couple of items about David Matsumoto 's (from Humintell ) training session on micro-expression analysis and l...

As I have mentioned in previous posts, Massachusetts is not exactly on the cutting edge when it comes to enlightened procedural rules for ju...

A Tennessee jury was having trouble reaching a verdict in a major medical malpractice case. The doctor, Michael Goodman, was being sued for ...

It was reported yesterday in the Modesto Bee that two-thirds of those surveyed already believed that Columbus Allen Jr. is guilty of killin...

I recently returned from Atlanta, where I was attending the annual conference of the American Society of Trial Consultants. A lot of informa...

As promised, I write today about the second workshop conducted by David Matsumoto at the American Society of Trial Consulting Conference. W...

I am currently in Atlanta, attending the annual conference of the American Society of Trial Consultants . Yesterday afternoon, I attended a ...