NATIONAL
January 25, 2010 | By Katherine Skiba
If Cook County, Ill., had its druthers, President Obama would be showing up for jury duty today. But court officials were told several weeks ago the prospect was a no-go, a White House official said Sunday. The summons arrived at the president's Chicago home. Obama, a 1991 graduate of Harvard Law School, president of the Harvard Law Review and later a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, would have been bound for the courthouse in suburban Bridgeview had he not been otherwise occupied.
WORLD
June 27, 2009 | Yuriko Nagano
Jinko Takahashi stares with trepidation at the six oversized, black-cushioned chairs in a Yokohama District Court room. The 49-year-old has just finished a four-hour program designed to prepare citizens for Japan's new jury system. Like many potential jurors across the world, Takahashi is not particularly enthused about her potential fate. "To be completely honest, I don't want to be on a jury," Takahashi said, sighing.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 3, 2008 | Stuart Pfeifer, Times Staff Writer
Nearly one year after the indictment of former Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona, some 650 prospective jurors are expected to file into the Santa Ana federal courthouse today in the first step in choosing a jury for his upcoming corruption trial. Despite speculation in Orange County law enforcement circles that the case would end in a plea bargain before trial, all indications this week are that testimony would begin Oct. 28 as scheduled.
NATIONAL
September 29, 2008 | Carol J. Williams, Times Staff Writer
At first brush, there was nothing about the 74-year-old beauty contest supplier from the Bible Belt bastion of Texarkana that inspired trial consultant Robert B. Hirschhorn to want her on his high-tech client's jury. The case involved patent rights, and it was Hirschhorn's job to identify jurors in the pool who might be receptive to the claim that a lucrative Internet dating service had copied his client's search engine accelerator without paying for it.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 1, 2008 | DANA PARSONS
Sonny Morper wasn't the least bit daunted when his Orange County jury mates voted him foreman as they prepared to decide whether a convicted pedophile should be released from a state hospital. A retired middle school principal from Lake Forest, Morper, a firm believer in the system, was pulling his first jury duty.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 18, 2007 | Molly Hennessy-Fiske
An aunt of three girls killed in a fire in Long Beach last week was wounded in a shooting Sunday night, Long Beach police said Monday. The 22-year-old woman, whom police have not identified, was at a vigil near the burned detached garage on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue when she was shot in the lower leg and a 17-year-old boy was shot in the torso, Long Beach police said. She was not at the apartment at the time of the fire early Friday, police said. -- Molly Hennessy-Fiske