Trials-Bench_Jury_Trials-Captions.xml
Trials-Bench_Jury_Trials-Captions.xml
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<p begin="00:00:00.25" end="00:00:05.30">This is your legal minute, brought to you by the Ohio State Bar Foundation.</p>
<p begin="00:00:06.00" end="00:00:14.50">There are two different ways that a court case can come to trial: one is called a “bench trial” and one is a “jury trial.”</p>
<p begin="00:00:14.60" end="00:00:22.70">In a misdemeanor criminal case, a defendant must request a jury trial for one to happen; in a felony case, it’s automatic.</p>
<p begin="00:00:22.80" end="00:00:26.90">In a civil case, either party may request a trial by jury.</p>
<p begin="00:00:27.00" end="00:00:32.00">In Ohio, eight members serve on juries for civil and misdemeanor cases.</p>
<p begin="00:00:32.10" end="00:00:34.50">In felonies, there are twelve members.</p>
<p begin="00:00:34.60" end="00:00:43.50">At a jury trial, the jurors decide the facts of a case and apply the law as given to them by the judge to arrive at a just outcome:</p>
<p begin="00:00:43.60" end="00:00:52.40">in a criminal case, it is either “guilty” or “not guilty”; in a civil case, it’s either judgment “for the plaintiff” or “for the defendant.”</p>
<p begin="00:00:52.50" end="00:00:57.70">If the defendant at a criminal case desires, or if both parties request it in a civil case,</p>
<p begin="00:00:57.80" end="00:01:02.20">a jury may be eliminated and the case tried just to the judge.</p>
<p begin="00:01:02.30" end="00:01:10.90">In that case, the judge decides the facts, determines the law, and applies it to arrive at one of the same verdicts mentioned earlier.</p>
<p begin="00:01:11.00" end="00:01:15.00">This legal minute is brought to you by the Ohio State Bar Foundation.</p>
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