NORTH DAKOTA COURT SYSTEM

North Dakota may offer counseling for jurors exposed to graphic images and testimony

BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — North Dakota jurors who see and hear graphic images and testimony as part of a trial may be offered counseling services. HB 1047 would offer those services to jurors and alternates. They would qualify for ten hours of counseling after the trial was over if the case they sat on had to deal with violent crimes…