Sentences with phrase «judge and jury gets»

Our engineers are specifically trained to deal with pedestrian and car accidents so that the Court, Judge and Jury gets a proper understanding of how the accident happened, and who's fault the accident is.

Not exact matches

How could McLain have gotten a fair trial, Levine asked, when the judge had allowed jurors to stand in the jury box, eating food and drinking coffee during testimony?

«I then did what a federal judge does when a jury is deadlocked and issued an Alan charge trying to get them to move on their positions.

Judge Valerie Caproni said it was very early to get a note like this,» and quickly sent the jury back to work and reminded them that they should «respectfully exchange views.»

The two alternatives now are to 1) appoint a new jury and conduct a mini-trial before it goes to decide on the penalty (which could take months); or 2) the judge could get the prosecutors to agree to forgo the death penalty; and the judge could unilaterally impose life w / o parole or life, with parole after 25 yrs.

Get the narcissist out of your head as your judge and jury right now, and you'll find you feel significantly better, more optimistic, more creative, and happier.

You tell them to «get along» or you play judge and jury, telling both sides what they should do.

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120 Beats Per Minute — the title evoking heart rates and drum machines — won the Grand Prix, though there were some (including, perhaps, jury head Pedro Almodóvar, to judge from his comments at the post - ceremony press conference) who might've liked to see it get the Palme.

This week, Samsung finally got their turn to go on the offense after Apple made their case to the jury and District Court Judge Lucy Koh.

I tell clients all the time to call the right department, and if the other person on the end of the phone sounds as though they are judge, jury and executioner,,, time for a bad connection (keep paper to crunch in the background) and call back and get someone who appears compassionate, I say this so the phone servicer can't note the file in a negative manner for the next call or department.

When I began my own career as a district court judge, I made it a point to meet with every jury in any case I tried so that I could answer their questions and get their impressions on the trial process and their role as a jury.

The day after the jury decided the case, the presiding judge called me to say that it was his practice to meet with juries after they finished their deliberations and get their feedback on the trial, the judge, and the lawyers.

The Crown should ask the trial judge to reconsider the Corbett ruling so that the jury (or trial judge in a judge - alone trial) gets a fair and complete picture.209 Similarly, in a jury case, a defence strategy centred on an attack on the credibility of the victim can affect an accused's successful Corbett application, potentially opening up his or her entire criminal record to cross-examination for credibility purposes.210

It is important to keep in mind that personal injury cases can be very complicated for a number of reasons, including determining which evidence is admissible and how to get all favorable evidence before the judge or jury.

Answer: Doing so will probably get you kicked off of the jury, plus at least a lecture from the judge about violating your oath as a juror, a $ 250.00 fine, and a court order to go home and write a five - page essay on the importance of the Sixth Amendment.

The short answer, therefore, is that in England and Wales a defendant can not be convicted on a charge that is not listed on the indictment, but a jury can convict of any charge on the indictment if the judge asks the jury to retire and consider a verdict - but the case may not get so far as that, if a plea - bargain is struck.

«You're not doing the job for your client if you're not zealous to a fault, but you're not an effective advocate for them if you go before the judge and jury and get in trouble because you're not forthcoming enough about discovery,» says Duffy.

He knows how to get results from judges, juries and insurance companies.

That means being honest with the judge, opposing counsel, oftentimes the insurance company representative (which I have found is always the person behind the scenes controlling the money decisions and is the reason the case is going to trial; the powerful decision - maker who the judge and jury never meet or even get to know about), and most importantly, the jury.

We will use the information and evidence we gather to (1) get charges against you reduced or dropped, (2) negotiate plea agreements, and / or (3) argue your case in front of a judge or jury.

When judges ask for «critique» of a draft jury instruction, they expect and get extremely respectful responses.

Once the lawyers have fought over the instructions and the judge decides what will be presented, the jury only gets them in writing... in some states not even in writing, they only get them read to them without a copy to take back to the room.

While jury trials are the ultimate trial - court challenge, this is in fact a book that at its core is about shattering your view of yourself as an attorney and getting you to realize how you really come across (to a jury but also to the judge and everyone else).

-LSB-...] The only way Oracle could counter such testimony is by calling Judges O'Malley, Plager, and Taranto as witnesses to tell the jury that the Court got it completely wrong, and in fact that the declaring code and SSO are copyrightable.

In order to get clients the just compensation for their pain and suffering, we work diligently to build a compelling case that judges and juries can not deny.

When you step into court, you can do so with an attorney by your side who has decades of experience getting results in front of a judge and jury.

They tell me simple timeline visuals, rather than complex legal charts, are more helpful in getting judges, juries and mediators to understand their case evidence better, but also to remember it better.

A self - deprecatory statement will endear you to the judge and jury, and you can get back on track.

I would argue that the combination of these two outcomes related to design patents doesn't make sense, but Apple's smartphone design patent case is strong enough that a jury can find that way, and the tablet design patent case is so strong that Apple may very well get the jury overruled either by Judge Koh or on appeal.

And the end result of litigation, which gets these cases resolved, one way or another, either by settlement, or a jury verdict, or by judge decision, is a trial.

For more great stuff, including why our judges love the civil jury system, get the Center for Justice & Democracy's new BRIEFING BOOK, TORT LITIGATION AND JURIES: BY THE NUMBERS.

And before Apple v. Samsung gets there, Judge Koh has to make her Rule 50 («overrule - the - jury») decisions, but in the build - up to the trial, Judge Koh was clearly reluctant, especially compared to Judge Posner, to make summary judgment decisions instead of deferring to the jury.

All those records get created well before any judge or jury sees the case — and they don't automatically go away or disappear, even if the case is eventually thrown out.

During a break in yesterday's trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, while the judge and jury were out of the courtroom, Moussaoui shouted, «Burn in the U.S.A.» The outburst got Norm Pattis hot under the collar.

When we talk about «walled gardens,» we focus on the obvious harms: an App Store makes one company the judge, jury and executioner of whose programs you can run on your computer; apps can't be linked into and disappear from our references; platforms get to spy on you when you use them; opaque algorithms decide what you hear (and thus who gets to be heard).