Sentences with phrase «reaching a verdict based»

Reaching a verdict based on a previous quarterback's body of work is not a failure to equally apply standards.

Not exact matches

It's fair to say that Tottenham didn't reach their verdict on the basis of the 24 - year - old form's at Inter, as he the Frenchman struggled badly in Italy last season and was in turn sent out on loan to Valencia this past summer.

Besides exposing the pros and cons of jury - based trials, «Runaway Jury» sets its sights on the relationship between firearms manufacturers and gun crime — but instead of setting forth the evidence from either side and allowing viewers to reach their own verdict on such complex issues, the film presents a highly prejudicial case, leading its audience to a conclusion that is disappointingly righteous.

Since most of the justification for the EPA ruling is based on the predictions of AGW, it will be interesting to see how the court rules, if it indeed comes to trial and a verdict is reached.

Lawyers make their fees based on a contingency of your case settling or reaching a verdict, essentially we don't get paid if you don't get paid.

While jury nullification in this broader sense isn't terribly uncommon, most jury verdicts that reach the wrong conclusion based upon misunderstandings of the law or facts are sincere screw ups and not intentional cases of disregard for the law.

This broader sense of jury nullification is distinguished from cases where the jury sincerely tried to reach a correct verdict based upon the jury instructions but screwed up in their interpretation of the jury instructions and / or their understanding of what happened factually.

With the very narrow, newly created exception for guilty verdicts in criminal cases reached based upon racial or other kinds of impermissible prejudice rather than the facts of the case (or cases where there is an outside influence on the jury such as a bribe or someone looking up facts or law on the Internet), no one can challenge a jury verdict based upon the reasoning and conclusions actually made by the jurors, even if someone learns that the jury knowingly or accidentally didn't follow the law or was mistaken about the facts.

Often everyone even knows that the jury reached its verdict because it misunderstood the law or the facts, based upon interviews with the jurors immediately following the trial, but nothing can be done about that to reverse a jury verdict if a sincere jury following the instructions could have reached the same conclusion if they'd viewed the credibility of the witnesses differently.

The key thing to observe is that jury verdicts are almost always overturned, either based upon things that hypothetically could have caused them to reach an incorrect verdict (for the reasons I've labeled # 1, # 2 or # 3) whether or not those mistakes actually caused the jury to reach the wrong verdict, or because under the circumstances it was impossible for the jury to have reached the verdict that it did (for the reasons I've labeled as # 4 and # 5).