Sentences with phrase «about jury instructions»

Manhattan's federal appeals court has since overturned the conviction amid questions about the jury instructions, which failed to adhere to the high court's recent definition of bribery.

«We see no reasonable possibility, in light of the record as a whole, that that flaw affected the outcome of the case,» the court said of Boyland's complaints about his jury instructions.

Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson's appeals of their insider trading convictions hinge on a fairly nit - picky legal point about jury instructions, although an important one that has an appeals court pretty riled up.

Not exact matches

On Thursday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Joan M. Azrack spent more than two hours giving instructions to the jury, reading aloud from 54 pages explaining the law and how jurors should go about considering each charge the defendants face.

In reversing McDonnell's conviction, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court found that instructions to the trial jury about what defines a public official's «official acts» were so broad that they could include almost any action an official might take while in office.

He said the judge might have treated the instructions to the jury differently, and prosecutors «would have been even more careful» about making sure their summation and rebuttal arguments «completely conformed» with the court's new interpretation of the federal theft of honest services law.

On Friday, Azrack said while hearing arguments from the attorneys about the wording of instructions on the law that jurors will get, that she had read jury instructions from the corruption trials of Sheldon Silver, the former state Assembly speaker convicted for a second time on Friday, and Joseph Percoco, former aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

They ruled that the jury instructions should have been more specific about the «official acts» that led to the bribery conviction.

The survey was designed to collect data about the judge, the court staff, the court facilities, the jury instructions, and the attorneys and asked for both objective ratings and subjective observations.

At Lowering the Bar, Kevin took a quick look at tweets about jury duty, and the results were predictable in demonstrating that the instruction is regrettably necessary:

Back in February, we brought you news of a new model jury instruction cautioning jurors that tweeting about a case was a no - no.

Jury nullification is an unpopular legal concept with a judicial system meant to crank out fines and jail sentences, but the US Supreme Court has affirmed the right of juries to think beyond their allotted jury instructions and the right of citizens to spread the word about that super-judicial discretJury nullification is an unpopular legal concept with a judicial system meant to crank out fines and jail sentences, but the US Supreme Court has affirmed the right of juries to think beyond their allotted jury instructions and the right of citizens to spread the word about that super-judicial discretjury instructions and the right of citizens to spread the word about that super-judicial discretion.

It seems to me that jury instructions could be viewed as a kind of testimony provided by an expert witness (the judge) about what verdict must be returned based on what facts the jury finds to be true...

He also gave the first name of the defendant and described his alleged crimes, writing, «Nowhere do I recall the jury instructions mandating I can't post comments in my blog about the trial.

I mentioned earlier this week about efforts to impeach New Hampshire judges who declined to issue specific jury nullification instructions to juries.

The federal judiciary has issued new jury instructions aimed at deterring jurors from using the Web and social media to research or communicate about a case.

As you are reviewing the jury instructions, think about the way the facts of your case are likely to be presented to a jury.

Provides information about being a juror in California, and provides links to California's civil and criminal jury instructions.

However, these instructions are organized around categories of sexual offences (sexual interference, incest, sexual assault, etc) and do not contain any specific directions cautioning juries about the operation of myths and stereotypes in trials of sexual offences.

Click here to read more about the New Circumstantial Evidence Jury Instruction.

A judge's instruction to the jury on how they could weigh testimony about a defendant's possible change in appearance at trial - in this case, wearing glasses - wasn't prejudicial, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals has ruled.

This is what Judge Koh's tentative final jury instructions would say about the relevant factors and how to consider them:

Your lawyer has numerous documents such as pretrial briefs, proposed jury instructions and special motions about evidence (Motions in Limine) that are prepared as trial nears.

The trial judge refrained from giving a remedial instruction to the jury about Mr. Prokofiew's right to silence...

U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson of Kansas, the chair of the Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management, told the nation's judges in a Jan. 28 memo that the new jury instructions «address the increasing incidence of juror use, of such devices as cellular telephones or computers, to conduct research on the internet or communicate with others about cases».

Some Juries might also rule contrary to their instructions without actually having heard about jury nullification because they have some sort of sympathy with the defendant.

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 Benchbook is used by Mass. judges as an official «playbook» and answers every possible question about jury trials, including attorney - conducted voir dire, mentioning damages in closing argument, juror notebooks, jury questionnaires, peremptory challenges, jury instructions, and much more.

If the justices want to be more explicit about role definitions for trial judges, then, and as odd as it may seem, they might also try writing jury instructions after reading their opinions and before they are published.

The court ruled that the jury instruction misled the jury about when the Brokerage would be liable for the salesperson's action.