Your nervous when you go to a lawyer’s office to decide if you should hire them. You have a list of questions hopefully that you want to ask . Experience. Have you handled a case like mine ? What is best case or worst case ? There are a ton of questions depending on the case.
Jury selection is the most important part of a criminal trial . Jury selection is when the attorneys question jurors on their qualifications and if they can be fair and unbiased jurors. Each attorney has eight peremptory challenges in a felony case under Tennessee law. A peremptory challenge allows a lawyer to strike a potential
Last December , I was asked to participate in a meeting about a proposal by the folks at the state mental health department on a DUI law . Basically , the law will give folks that are facing a DUI jail sentence for a second or third offense DUI charge to get more jail credit
The last R for trial lawyers is remember. Once you relax , rehearse , and react , you have to remember. Remember what happened , what worked , and what failed . Why do we want to remember ? Great trial lawyers don’t want to make the same mistake twice.
How do we remember ? We start
I am pleased to post the second statement of qualifications of office. This time it is Rob McGuire’s qualifications. If you have not read the ground rules here they are.
In yesterday’s post , I talked about the first R which is to relax. The second R is rehearse . Coach Bosque spoke about thinking about the play before it happened and play in his mind what he was going to do with the baseball if it was hit to him. Preparing for a hearing
During the break between Christmas and New Year’s , I took my son to a baseball camp in Cleveland , Tn. At the workout there are some college coaches around while they work on some baseball skills. We had a little time before we headed back to Nashville . So , I signed him up
If you are arrested for a criminal charge or DUI in Tennessee , you are entitled to have a preliminary hearing . A preliminary hearing is to determine whether there is probable cause that a crime has been committed. The key question is whether you should testify at that hearing in your defense.
Last week
Here is Ed Ryan’s qualifications for judge. Mr.Ryan is running for General Sessions judge in Nashville Davidson County, Tennessee.
Qualification to be a Judge in TN 1. Have spent your life devoted to the law and the courts it should be your passion. 2. Actually tried a case, trial, motions hearings. Argued your side of