During court, when something happens and the judge tells the jury to ‘forget that’ or ‘not include that,’ if the jury heard it, how could I, as someone on the jury, possibly just ignore what I heard? Whether the evidence is admissible or not.
During court, when something happens and the judge tells the jury to ‘forget that’ or ‘not include that,’ if the jury heard it, how could I, as someone on the jury, possibly just ignore what I heard? Whether the evidence is admissible or not.
I was on a jury for a 3 week trial last winter. In almost every case the attorneys go to a side bar before anything is brought up. The only situation we had where we were asked to ignore something were two incomplete questions regarding a business relationship that later turned out to be completely inconsequential to the questions at hand.