jury trial Archives | Jon Katz, P.C.

29 May

Jury trial victory only can follow a not guilty plea- Fairfax criminal lawyer

Jury trial practice is the ultimate of criminal defense. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer I know that great criminal defense and cross examination teacher Terry McCarthy may have overstated that a non-jury trial is akin to a slow plea, but I have nonetheless experienced the...

2019 / Criminal Defense

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21 Oct

Clearing the obstacles to opening and closing in the first person at trial

I have experienced firsthand the power of my presenting closing argument storytelling to the jury in the first person of my client. Doing so in the right circumstances transports me outside my lawyer role into the very person of my client, in the moment in...

2016 / Criminal Defense / Persuasion

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05 Nov

Gutting the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a jury trial for “petty offenses”

The United States Supreme Court has long maintained that somehow the Sixth Amendment does not mean what it says, in that the Constitution generally does not guarantee the right to a jury trial for a "petty offense,"...

2015 / Criminal Defense