Responsabilidad civil por influencia indebida en jurados

Explicación Simple

Si alguien intenta convencer a un jurado para que decida de una forma específica, eso se llama embracery. Si lo logra, puede tener que pagar a la persona que fue afectada por esa acción.

Es como cuando un jugador de fútbol intenta sobornar al árbitro para que no vea una falta. Si lo logra, el equipo que fue perjudicado puede demandar por la injusticia.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Juan, un abogado, se acerca a un jurado potencial y le ofrece un dinero para que vote a favor de su cliente en un juicio. Si el jurado se siente presionado y la decisión de Juan afecta el resultado del juicio, Juan podría ser demandado por la persona que perdió.

Penalidades

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Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Civil liability. - Person who commits embracery is liable in civil damages to one who is thereby injured. LaBarre v. Payne, 174 Ga. App. 32 , 329 S.E.2d 533 (1985). Evidence of defendant's reputation. - In a trial for embracery, where the state sought to elicit the victim's perception of whether the defendant's statements were threatening and, after answering affirmatively the question of whether the victim was familiar with defendant's reputation, the witness did not say what that reputation was, the error, if any, in permitting the question did not contribute to the judgment. Stevens v. State, 195 Ga. App. 324 , 393 S.E.2d 482 (1990). Jury need not be impaneled and sworn at time of attempted influence. - It is not essential to constitute offense of embracery that juror sought to be influenced be, at the time, a member of a jury impaneled and sworn to try case in question. Martin v. State, 43 Ga. App. 287 , 158 S.E. 635 (1931). Crime of embracery may be committed by approaching a prospective juror who has been neither sworn nor impaneled in case, and who may never have anything to do with the case in which the juror is attempted to be influenced. Jones v. State, 101 Ga. App. 851 , 115 S.E.2d 576 (1960). Embracery may be perpetrated by attempting to influence grand juror, although no indictment was returned, and even perhaps by influencing the juror on a matter before the grand jury which did not include finding of a true bill. Jones v. State, 101 Ga. App.