Legal Question: How does a Jury "Disregard" Obvious Evidence

[Gfactor]

@Frylock

In other words, I was looking for cases analogous to the ones in which evidence was excluded which would lead a reasonable jury to convict, where the exclusion was legally correct.

You’re looking for an exclusionary rule that applies against the defendant.

There are a few rules (privelege and some public policy-based rules–I’ve got an idea about a case in which I was involved) like that and also some events (like failure to give notice of an affirmative defense) that could qualify. I’ll poke around and see what I can find after I finish doing homework with my daughter.

I couldn’t look at the last one without a login.

Weird. They must have changed something over there. I almost never have to give a login for that site, even on a borrowed computer.

[Gfactor]

@Frylock

In other words, I was looking for cases analogous to the ones in which evidence was excluded which would lead a reasonable jury to convict, where the exclusion was legally correct.

-FrL-

Here is one: http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/getcase/10th/case/992262.html (Affirming exclusion of surprise alibi testimony) cert. denied. 531 U.S. 1089 (2001)

[Gfactor]

There’s also testimony precluded because a witness invokes the privilege against self-incrimination. See generally, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3805/is_199806/ai_n8785735/pg_19 (and the accompanying text, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3805/is_199806/ai_n8785735/pg_2)