Tag archive: jury

According to a story posted by the Associated Press earlier today, the murder conviction of death row inmate Erickson Dimas-Martinez was tossed out by the Arkansas Supreme Court because juror number 2 Randy Franco posted several public Twitter updates during the trial. In addition, another juror was sleeping at the trial. Dimas-Martinez had received the death penalty for the murder of 17-year-old Derrick Jefferson as well as life in prison for… Read More

When Jonathan Hudson of Arlington, Texas sent a Facebook friend request to Courtney Downing, he probably didn't realize that it would eventually result in four charges of contempt of court. At the time of the friend request, Hudson was taking a break from delivering pizzas to serve on a Texas jury. Courtney Downing happened to be the defendant in the case that concerned a 2008 car wreck and Hudson thought it would be a brilliant idea to… Read More

A federal jury in Minnesota has found Jammie Thomas-Rasset guilty of infringing 24 music copyrights and awarded the record labels a stunning $1.92 million in damages to the music industry. The jury verdict represents the second time Thomas has been found guilty of infringement, although the first verdict—for a mere $220,000 in damages—was thrown out by the trail judge because he found he had made an error instructing the jury,… Read More

A jury in a San Diego federal court has ruled that Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console did not violate a patent owned by Alcatel-Lucent SA. The jury also rejected the Paris-based company's bid for $419 million in damages. The parent in question dates back to 1993 and covers encoding video frames. The jury also found that another Microsoft patent involved in the case was invalid since it didn't cover a new invention, and that… Read More

A jury has award Alcatel-Lucent $367.4 million in damages, after finding Redmond software giant Microsoft violated two of the company's patents related to date entry and handwriting recognition in tablet computers. The suit is the latest chapter in several long-standing patent dispute between the two companies; in February of last year, a San Diego jury ordered Microsoft to pay Alcatel $1.52 billion for infringing two patents related… Read More

A $29.5 million verdict in a patent infringement lawsuit against Internet auction house eBay will bring changes in how the company conducts sales of fixed-price merchandise. Jay Monahan, eBay's vice president for litigation, said the company still believes the patents belonging to Virginia inventor Thomas G. Woolston are invalid, but nonetheless plans to implement design changes that will avoid infringing on them in the future. A… Read More