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Read more →The National Conference of Metropolitan Courts has obtained a small State Justice Institute grant to conduct a experimental six-month, telephonic, confidential group mentoring and coaching program for relatively new presiding and chief judges and judges who have been identified as “on a presiding judge leadership track” in multi-judge courts. The program is open to state…
June 21, 2012 National Judicial College Newsletter, June 2012 A no-fee online course for new general jurisdiction judges has been developed by the National Judicial College located at the University of Nevada, Reno. It is a 6 to 9 hour self-study curriculum for judges to take after election or appointment to the bench. Although it…
June 1, 2012 Gregory Hurley, Center for Jury Studies, National Center for State Courts The NCSC Center for Jury Studies plans to submit a proposal to the National Science Foundation by July 15, 2012, for funding to support a mock jury study to examine the impact of jury instructions on implicit bias in juror decision-making. …
June 4, 2012 Erwin Chemerinsky, ABA Journal e-Newsletter As the flurry of end of the term decisions is about to begin from the U.S. Supreme Court, it is important to not lose sight of two cases that are likely to have a dramatic effect on lawyers and judges. In Missouri v. Frye and Lefler v.…
May 27, 2012 Adapted from an article by Mary K. Reinhart, Arizona Republic The Superior Court in Maricopa County Arizona (Phoenix) has recently attacked in earnest the problems associated with young children remaining in foster care for extended periods of time by developing a new juvenile court program called Cradle to Crayons patterned after research…
May 14, 2012 Los Angeles Times; Reuters News Service; California Judicial Branch; National Center for State Courts State judicial leaders warned Monday that the proposed cuts for the California courts may jeopardize public access to the justice system. During the last three years, the state’s huge court system has been cut by $650 million. The…
May 10, 2012 USA Today by Tim Mullaney After April’s employment report brought word of 15,000 more cuts of government workers, are states and local governments closer to the bottom? Sort of. States are stabilizing as tax receipts tick up. They’re helped by the upward march of private-sector jobs, which climbed by 130,000 as…
