Time4aNAPPremium
join:2007-04-09
Des Plaines, IL | reply to Michieru2
Re: she really has no choice... said by Michieru2:I say make the jury decide if a continuance should be offered. First of all, the plaintiff is usually pressured into settling for a bench trial, because jury trials are time consuming (remember that Single Mom needs that time as well) and expensive to the taxpayer. "The jury is never happy about you making them sit through a long trial, and they'll blame you since it's your call. You don't want to go into this with one strike against you already, do you?"
For the most part, the stalling takes place before the trial starts, so if there is a jury, they don't see that part anyway. Not that it matters, because it's not their call. The jury's only job is to find for the plaintiff or the defendant, and (sometimes) to decide the degree of culpability and the amount of the award. The judge alone decides how and when the case proceeds. |
