"She was unconscious and going into respiratory depression for at least several hours before she died," Dr. Barbara Sampson informed jurors.

A shadow defense might be used to convey this information to the jury, not because the defense itself is likely to succeed but because it provides a vehicle for informing jurors about sympathetic personal characteristics of the Defendants.

Carroza informed jurors that despite prison authorities monitoring his mail and phone calls since 1989, prosecutors lacked any evidence that he had conspired with the other indicted men.

He said he would impose a "straightforward duty on the court" to inform jurors, at the defendant's request, of the meaning of sentencing terms that might be misunderstood.

The Fully Informed Jury Association is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to informing jurors of their rights and seeks laws to force judges to inform jurors that they can and should judge the law.

Then an automated five-day telephone standby call-in system informs jurors which day they need to report.

Prosecutors are under no obligation to inform grand jurors of any contradictions that exist among accounts from different witnesses or victims.

In 1895 in Sparf v. United States, the Court said that courts need not inform jurors of their de facto right of juror nullification although jurors' inherent right to judge the law remains unchallenged.

A Killer, and Bad in Math In theory, this adversarial process known as the penalty phase, coda to a capital murder trial, informs jurors of the broader circumstances of the case.

Justices heard arguments that his sentencing hearing was again flawed, marred by inflammatory statements by the prosecutor, by the failure of the trial judge to inform jurors before empaneling them that he had been convicted of two other murders, and by poor legal representation.