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Med Legal Art - ORIF

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Surgical illustration showing the ORIF procedure (open reduction and internal fixation) for a knee injury.

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ZMF's Social Media Week in Review

This week, our #KnowYourJury breakdown features #GenerationX

Monday: Did you know… 45% of #GenerationX are children of divorce @ZMF_LLC

Tuesday: Did you know… #GenerationX is made up of people aged 31-47, who are also known for accepting #equality and #diversity @ZMF_LLC

Wednesday: Did you know… #GenerationX is often known as the #MTVGeneration because they experienced the emergence of music videos @ZMF_LLC

Thursday: Did you know… members of #GenerationX are known for being practical, self-reliant, individualistic, cautious, and family-oriented @ZMF_LLC

Friday: Did you know… #GenerationX works toward long-term institutional and systematic change through economic, media, and consumer actions @ZMF_LLC

ZMF's Jury Question of the Week: What do you think about the idea of placing limits on the amount of money juries can award? #zmfjuryquestion @ZMF_LLC

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Juror Fashion - What Does It Mean?

Jurors showed up today donning sports team wear for the Drew Peterson trial. It is not as uncommon as you might think for jurors to get all matchy matchy during trial. At the Edwards trial, jurors had red, purple, grey and even black days. Sports jerseys were seen recently in a murder trial in an east coast courtroom. Scooter Libby faced a jury dressed in Valentine apparel shortly before his conviction. There are likely dozens of other unreported instances of ‘team jury’ apparel.

What does it mean? It could mean the jurors are just messing with us. They want some attention, are releasing tension or have started to bond on a hostage level. Most likely they are trying to amuse themselves. Being admonished daily not to discuss the case and running out of weather (it is just hot) conversation, they have taken to game playing. Think of it as a long boring car trip. You find other ways to entertain yourselves. They are no doubt tired of counting the number of ‘uhms’, guessing what color tie will be worn by which attorney and pondering lunch. But unless they show up in matching orange jump suits…don’t read too much into jury fashion.