If you've been subpoenaed or listed as a possible witness for a trial, it can feel like a lot of pressure. What should you say? What shouldn't you say? What if the judge yells at you? How should you dress? All of these matters can impact a case. Thankfully, a good lawyer never leaves a [...]

So you're called to jury duty. What a hassle, right? Few people want to do it even though it comes with paid time off. But if you're selected to serve, you might as well make the best of it. However, few people really understand the role of a juror, how the trial process works, or [...]

Wrapping up our series on the basics of the legal process, we've looked at courtroom positions and personnel, the way criminal cases work, steps in a courtroom trial, steps in a criminal case, and the jury selection process. If you recall, the steps in a criminal case include arraignment, preliminary hearing, second arraignment, pretrial hearing, the jury trial, [...]

Welcome back to our series: Basic information on trials and courtrooms. Since the beginning of this series, we've discussed courtroom positions and personnel, the way criminal cases work, steps in a courtroom trial, and the steps in a criminal case. Particularly in the last blog, we reviewed some of what happens before the trial begins. [...]

So far in our series on court 101, we've covered courtroom positions and personnel, how a trial works, and the steps and process of a courtroom trial. Our goal in this series is to introduce our readers to very basics of the legal process so they might be prepared if they ever have to endure [...]

As we continue with our series on the differences between juvenile court and adult court, we come to perhaps the biggest difference: no trial by jury. Now, you might wonder, 'You just finished a series on the Sixth Amendment, and doesn't that talk about our right to a trial by jury?' Indeed, it does! So [...]

In our series about the Fifth Amendment, we’ve covered pleading the fifth and double jeopardy. In a lot of ways, you could consider these as continuations of our series on legal jargon. Today, we cover “due process.” You may have heard that phrase thrown around. What is it? How does it work? What does it [...]

In our fourth blog about the Fifth Amendment, we cover your right to trial by grand jury. If you're curious about what else the fifth amendment says, be sure to check out our posts on pleading the fifth, double jeopardy, and due process. As we've discussed before, the fifth amendment of the US Constitution in [...]