Legal mistake: Judge confuses not guilty with guilty

The Los Angeles judge erred during the December 2006 voir dire in the sex-crime trial of Bryant Keith Williams, according to the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The judge said Williams had pleaded guilty to the charges, though he intended to say Williams had pleaded not guilty.

Article here. (via above the law blog). 

What do juries think of attorneys?

 Regardless of the verdict given, what attorney—having argued a case—hasn’t come away wishing for more insight into the minds and perceptions of the jurors? Given ten years of data from systematic surveys of jurors, some patterns in their responses emerge.

article here.