Sentences with phrase «jury charge regarding»

The Revised Jury Charge Regarding the Alteration and Destruction of Records, presented at ATLA - NJ Boardwalk Convention, Atlantic City, NJ, April 28, 2006.

Not exact matches

«I will make no comment now, or during the period of time that the grand jury is convened, regarding the days that the grand jury will be sitting; who may be called as a witness before the grand jury; what any witness has or will testify about before the grand jury; when the grand jury will conclude its investigation; what criminal charges will be considered by the grand jury, or against whom the grand jury might consider any such criminal charges,» said Mr. Donovan.

But even if there were sufficient evidence to charge the officer with a crime, which there is not, doing so would be «impossible,» the AG's report says, because Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove allowed the cop to testify before a grand jury regarding the shooting without waiving immunity.

Among the five charges is the fact that the barrister cautioned the jury to view the judge's summing up as they might regard a salesman's patter.

With regard to jury research, generally fees are charged on a 1/2 day basis and can vary significantly depending upon factors such as: venue, size of the jury pool, the number of mock trials required, and the type of research facility and technology to be utilized.

A common rule is that a judge must instruct a jury regarding any lesser offense that's necessarily a part of the charged offense if there's significant evidence that the defendant committed only the lesser crime.

There is already an (unanswered) question on the site regarding this in US law, but I'm asking about UK law, so I felt it appropriate to ask again: Can a jury always convict on a lesser included charge?

Indeed, the status of this topic as free speech that is supposed to be guaranteed under the First Amendment has been upheld by courts more than once: ● in Florida, where a judge affirmed that handing out FIJA brochures regarding jury nullification is legal based on principles of free speech ● in New York, where a federal judge dismissed false jury tampering charges against someone handing out brochures that advocated jury nullification ● in Colorado, where a judge dismissed false jury tampering charges against two people handing out FIJA's educational material on jury nullification

This approach to jury charges is consistent with the Court's statements in R v Lifchus, [1997] 3 SCR 320, regarding jury charges in general.