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Article: Reel in jurors with tech-savvy presentations.
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- Trial
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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Imagine watching a foreign-language film and being shown the English subtitles only after you've finished the movie. You'd be hard-pressed to put the translated dialogue back into the con text of the film. Yet that is the experience of many jurors who must wait until they begin deliberations before they can take a really good look at much of the evidence in the case they're deciding.
Historically, jurors often had to speculate about the details of some of the evidence introduced in trials until hours, days, or weeks after they first heard of it. For example, a lawyer might show a document to a witness before introducing it into evidence, but the jurors could not ...