April 2, 2007

Experts warn of Black jury boredom

Law professor Peter Henning is quoted in an article about the fraud trial of Canadian media mogul Conrad Black. As prosecutors work to trace a money trail to Black and three other Hollinger International executives, "it is important for the government, at some point, to really help the jury start connecting the dots," Henning observed. "You can't keep them in the dark about what the point of all this is. But at the same time, in any trial, you have to lay all your groundwork; you can't just cut to the chase." The story ran widely in the Canadian press.

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