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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Courtroom lawyers: Hiya from a focus group I'm doing today. Please, I beg of you, BANISH FROM YOUR VERBAL VOCABULARY: -"Opine" -"Ambulate" -"You'll note further that..." -"Percipient witness" -"Sustained an injury" Someone please buy me a drink for the pain from pounding my head on this table.

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I will not work with any current Paul,Weiss (or other Chamberlainesque firms) attorneys, yet will give discounts to any ex-Paul,Weiss attorneys who need support in their jury trial work at their new firms. ⚖️ No help for Esquislings. (T-shirt rights co-reserved w/ @title9jen.bsky.social)

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Lawyers in jury selection: STOP GIVING A RULE THEN ASKING WHETHER PROSPECTIVE JUROR CAN FOLLOW IT. Eg, "The judge will tell you I only have to prove my case by a feather over 50%; the law COMMANDS a verdict. [Pause] Will you be able to follow that rule?" Ugh. Lame, counterproductive format.

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Courtroom attys: in my 3rd jury selection in a week; STRONGLY advise you to ban these words from your jury selection game: Indicated Candor Obliged "Exhibited malpractice" "Navigate the situation" (euphemizing "have uncomfortable conversation") Is that fair? "The court" (meaning judge)

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

My intermittent plea to call it the serial comma, not the oh-so-holy Oxford comma. Serial comma is descriptive and helpful; Oxford is pure snob appeal branding. I give you my thanks, respect, and friendship for considering it. (Mmmmm... the serial comma....)

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #123,018!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #123,018, Juryology ‪@juryology.bsky.social‬, joined on Jun 13, 2023"

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

Good visual presentation of information. Lawyers should collect examples of our for their own work. (And read Edward Tufte's beautiful books on the subject.)

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

I love @repraskin’s piece. The point - as I’ve been saying for some time - is that recusal is not abt letters & mtgs w/members of Congress. It is a tool available to PARTIES in litigation & is part of a litigant’s due process rights. In the immunity case the party is the UNITED STATES (you & me).

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

A good day to notice that lawyering is the only known profession to have a widely recognized acronym on social media that people use as disclaimers that they're NOT in it before spewing "It seems to me...". There's no IANAP before giving takes that are hot but groundless on plumbing.

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

As good a time as any to point out that actual jury experts don't predict verdicts nor pretend to know what "the jury" is thinking, as if jurors are one monolith.

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 18/05/2024

Renewing my offer to pick any orca's jury for free. Pro bono eco.

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

Hi from a courtroom. ⚖️ Attys, BAN "subject" from your vocabulary as an adjective; "The subject machine/incident." Normal humans - jurors - don't talk this way. Likewise "fair?" to mean "Is that right?" Stop speaking in unconsciously adopted lawyerisms just because other lawyers do. (Grumble)

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Earning my eternal respect. 60% of my work is fighting w/attys & judges over juror questionnaires. Well, 5% of my work but 60% of my patience. Lawyers think they're great at writing questionnaires, a social science task; but would FREAK at the thought of a sociologist lobbing hot takes on a brief.

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

You're not alone.... and it kills me a little each time I am asked about it!

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

The absurdly wrong conflation of jury quality/fairness with political leanings of its jurisdiction - then, MORE foolishly, using that to PREDICT verdict - is one of the most maddening clichés across media. Msnbc & CNN should knock that shit off. Jury selection filters in ways elections don't.

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 24/03/2024

Available to run the focus groups.

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

In light of the news that Trump's trial in NY has been postponed, check out this episode of Law and Chaos featuring former Manhattan prosecutor Diana Florence talking about the strength of that case. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

podcasts.apple.com

‎Law and Chaos: Ep 12 - Trump’s First Trial (Feat. Diana Florence) on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Law and Chaos, Ep Ep 12 - Trump’s First Trial (Feat. Diana Florence) - Mar 15, 2024

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Corbin Barthold @corbinkbarthold.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

I discussed the SCOTUS NetChoice oral arg on the Law and Chaos podcast. Topics include: - Tex HB20 + Fla SB7072: bullshit laws - Call me old fashioned: only the *gov* can violate the 1A - Kav (!?) to the rescue? - MAGA's Sec. 230 take: not how any of this works! - Gorsuch ❤️ Gorsuch - Predictions!

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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 07/03/2024

Alabama's Supreme Court ruled that an embryo in vitro is legally a "child." This effectively banned IVF, one of the most widely-used fertility treatments in the U.S. When lawmakers scrambled to immunize health providers from prosecution, they left the underlying law intact. @lizdye.bsky.social

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Alabama’s New Law Won’t Truly Reverse its Supreme Court’s De Facto IVF Ban

A radical ruling to protect frozen embryos will end up chilling providers

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

Count on it. Good reminder: anyone who gets a jury summons should set all social media (including LinkedIn, which people forget) to Private a week before their assigned week & leave it until released. Well-funded parties WILL research you to the extent you make it possible.

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

Pro-tip for lawyers ⚖️: if witness is asked if he lied to other atty about facts, a sign of poor witness prep would be this answer: "Not that I recall. I don't recall. I mentioned earlier that I speculated on some things; I've testified to what I did know so I can't recall whether or not I... no."

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Thanks so much to @brandibuchman.bsky.social for coming on Law and Chaos to talk about the Proud Boys/Oath Keepers convictions and what they mean for the upcoming Trump trials. Such a great guest! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

podcasts.apple.com

‎Law and Chaos: Ep 6 - First The Proud Boys, Then Trump (Feat. Brandi Buchman) on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Law and Chaos, Ep Ep 6 - First The Proud Boys, Then Trump (Feat. Brandi Buchman) - Feb 23, 2024

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Two big takeaways from the Engoron order that are mostly flying under the radar, and thoughts on what comes next now that Trump is out of the fraud business. www.lawandchaospod.com/p/trumps-fak...

lawandchaospod.com

Trump's Fake It 'Til You Make It Empire

And what's happening now that he has to tell the truth.

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

@lizdye.bsky.social is a great essayist and conversationalist about legal matters. ⚖️

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

Might be a mutual problem: You would cause me stress & bouts of paralysis, and I would ignore you for weeks at a time.

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

A propos of 1 of today's headlines, a reminder that everyone who has been summoned for jury duty should set all their social media to private a week before their reporting date. Well-funded parties WILL research you. ⚖️

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

1. Demand a jury trial. 2. Call me.

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

Goddammit, the whole point of the King Solomon story is that he DIDN'T split the baby, and would NEVER split the baby-- it was a technique to smoke out the liar. STOP SAYING "Split the baby" as a compliment to someone's supposed wisdom.

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Or in an office somewhere the night before jury selection. (Reminder to the public that if you get a jury summons, turn all your social media private the week before your on-call week.)

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

It was such a great pleasure to talk with @lizdye.bsky.social for her Law & Chaos ⚖️ podcast. Improving the Legal Punditsphere one good observation and swear word at a time.

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Is he saying the jury selection process doesn't exist? Or maybe that his guy's lawyers aren't good at it? Or that the jurors who heard all the evidence and the legal instructions (unlike himself) had no valid basis to find the verdict they unanimously agreed to, that it was insincere? Man, FUCK you.

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

Liz is a great writer with excellent taste in guests.

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

This is what happens when lawyers think like lawyers; "to win, I just have to check all the boxes on the elements!" & "more evidence = more persuasion!" Maddening. If they thought like real people, they'd know that jurors want 2 & only 2 things from trial counsel: Help me understand the material, &

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

As I preach in every CLE I give. Lawyers should listen to podcasts EVERY week like The Moth, Snap Judgment etc. They're free masterclasses in storytelling, & prove that you don't have to BE a different person to tell good stories, just make better choices in POV, sequence, & beats. Keep listening. ⚖️

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

All citizens who receive jury summonses in DC, FL, NY, & GA who might be in the pool for these trials should immediately LOCK DOWN YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA. Turn everything private. A well-funded defendant WILL search everything they can about you. It's done in plain personal injury cases, fer chrissake.

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

D.C. RESIDENTS WHO GET A JURY SUMMONS IN NEXT 5 MONTHS: LOCK your social media accounts. Well-funded defendants will have people researching all publicly available info to learn about you, for the purpose of getting you excused of they don't like you. See J. Chutkan's order today.

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

I'm disappointed they aren't calling him Kenneth Frer-Fromage.

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

"Jesus, tell me, have you ever seen such a rigged trial in your life?... And of COURSE I wanted a bench trial. What kind of asshole wants to sit around all day talking about rules and how I'm supposed to live my life with 12 people yanked out of their lives with nothing better to do?"

Mediocre painting in the style of a courtroom sketch, showing an image of Jesus Christ sitting next to trump in a courtroom. Jesus appears Caucasian and angry, neither of which he is generally considered to have been, and the artist was unclear whether Jesus is there as co-counsel or co-defendant, the only choices for sitting at counsel's table in trial.

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Groups of 12 were famously his thing.

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Picked a jury today in Napa County Courthouse. I appreciate the charming old courthouses now and then.

Napa County Courthouse in the morning sun. "Justice" is written at the top of the front of the building.

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

UNTIL the trial is over. Meaning that if there's a conviction, an angry mob will still discover jurors' identities right afterward. I hope the judge can & does seal their identities more permanently. (GA law might not allow that.)

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

The absolute laziest legal "punditry" is the false assertion that a jury is likelier to convict/acquit based on the electoral record of the defendant in that jurisdiction. That's just crap, disproven by tons of criminal convictions of elected officials, & shows ignorance of the whole process.

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

I would support juror tutorials in lots of subjects, including this one. Implicit bias is another. And in civil suits, something about insurance so we can quit pretending that jurors don't think & conjecture about insurance in deliberations.

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Juryology @juryology.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

I wish lawyers and jury consultants would stop saying - or thinking - stupid, unfounded, easily disprovable things. ⚖️

Circled quote that asserts the false notion that a trial is over once the jury had been selected. It's a cliché, and it's not true.

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