Commentaries in court cases often boil down to whether one agrees or disagrees with the jury. The jury system, which we appropriated from the British system, is an artifact of our foundation. The idea ...

After Dismissal, Jury Quickly Finds Jo Guilty By Jackie Snyder On the afternoon of March 3, 2015, the verdict for the Nan-Hui Jo trial was returned. Guilty of parental abduction. The jury deliberated ...

UPDATE: A Yolo County jury returned a verdict of guilty in the case of Nan-Hui Jo on Tuesday morning, following just over a day of deliberation.  She faced a single charge of kidnapping the baby she h ...

 By Jackie Snyder and Lauren King On February 26, 2015, Deputy Public Defender Dean Johansson called his first witness of the day, Jae-Hyun Jo, a women the defendant, Nan-Hui Jo, met through a Korean ...

 by Makisha Singh The Nan Jo child abduction case resumed on February 25 with both attorneys exploring rather technical information from various witnesses. On this day, all of the audience members in ...

by Jackie Snyder, Lauren King, and Mahanaz Ebadi February 24, 2015, marked the third day of the Nan-Hui Jo trial. The courtroom was once again filled with many of Nan Jo's supporters, all of whom had ...

By Jackie Snyder and Makisha Singh The trial of Nan-Hui Jo resumed at 9 a.m. on February 23, 2015. The courtroom was packed with people who came to show their support for Ms. Jo. Jesse Charlton, the f ...

By Makisha Singh and Lauren King After the opening statements in which the attorneys told of the short, rocky, and passionate love affair between Nan-Hui Jo, a South Korean woman who came to the Unite ...

The key question that jurors face in the trial of Nan-Hui Jo is whether in 2009, when she fled to Korea with her young daughter, she took her daughter with malice in defying a custody situation, or wh ...