Wiretapping of the Democratic Party's headquarters. E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, who led the Watergate break-in team, were stationed in a Watergate Hotel room while the burglary was underway. A lookout was posted across the street at the Howard Johnson Hotel.
The judge, however, remains above the fray, providing an independent and impartial assessment of the facts and how the law applies to those facts. Many criminal cases - and almost all civil ones - are heard by a judge sitting without a jury. The judge is the trier of fact, deciding whether the evidence is credible and which witnesses are telling the truth.
The job of a trial juror. A trial jury listens to evidence in a courtroom, and decides the guilt or innocence of the. defendant in a criminal case, and the liability and damages of the parties in a civil case. Number of trial jurors. A trial jury is generally made up of 12 people or criminal cases and 6 for civil cases. Types of cases. Trials are either civil or criminal. As a trial juror, you may hear either kind of case. Civil cases are disputes between private individuals, corporations, governments, government agencies, or other organizations.