Sentences with phrase «about jury trials»

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.

Finally, you will learn some interesting points about jury trials.

Do we toss out all that we know about jury trials and proceed in an entirely different manner?

Now, when you're talking about jury trials, the court system can not necessarily handle a regular flow of these jury trials, so cases get postponed and postponed and postponed.

The South Florida Lawyers blog offered an interesting observation this week about jury trials.

Reports are provided about jury trial innovations designed to help jurors understand the trial better and to improve juror comprehension, performance, and satisfaction such as question - asking, note - taking, and annonymous juries.

Not exact matches

«Edwards wasn't convicted, but his jury hung on several counts, and the trial was driven by factual questions: Did Edwards know about the payments, and was their purpose political, or were they simply intended to keep the peace within Edwards's marriage?»

One day before the outcome, all parties in the five - week trial got a scare about a potentially tainted jury.

General District Judge Dean Worcester said the legal standard for establishing probable cause to send the case to a grand jury is low, and that arguments about planted evidence are better suited for trial.

Most of the actual heresy trials, without judge and jury, were about matters of personal morals.

Maybe justice and the good society are brought about precisely by lawyers and judges sending the jury out of the courtroom while they decide whether to admit the testimony of an old black woman who has been listening in on the whole trial of her son.

«In this light, it is crucial, therefore, that juries are better informed about the myths, stereotypes and realities of sexual violence, in the form of a generic briefing before a trial commences.»

We're still awaiting a decision from the jury in former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr.'s federal corruption trial, but we do have some (more bad) news to report about the embattled former Bronx Democratic lawmaker.

Jury deliberations in the corruption trial of former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco appeared to have run aground on their fourth day, as three jurors issued notes asking to be excused from the case, with one expressing concern about the storm expected to slam the New York City metro area; and another saying that she has sick children.

Sharpton criticized the length of time that each grand jury has been working without a decision and what he termed grand jury roles that «appear to be improperly expanded to where it is about trying to prove or disprove the accused rather than to see if there's probable cause to go to trial».

Former State Senate Leader Dean Skelos was stone - faced and silent as he left a federal courthouse where a jury found him and his son Adam guilty of public corruption charges today, after a four - week trial and just about eight hours of deliberations — but attorneys for both men said they would pursue legal challenges to the verdict.

During the sentencing, which lasted about 90 minutes, Caproni denied Silver's motion to set aside the jury's verdict and grant him a new trial.

November 24, 2015 After weeks of listening to people talk about Albany politics, jurors may have turned to the dark side and started treating each other not so nicely — and less than two hours after jury deliberations for the Silver trial began on Tuesday.

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.

The problem: The display, right outside the ceremonial courtroom where the Percoco trial is likely to occur and where jurors may congregate during jury selection, highlights about 30 criminal cases — from Abscam to Bernie Madoff — but not a single one that ended in an acquittal at trial.

NEW YORK (AP)-- A jury had deliberated about four hours without reaching a verdict in the bribery trial of a former top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Removing the 2nd Amendment would require the same process as removing any of the other foundational rights, such as freedom of speech, the presumption of innocence, or trial by jury (and is about as likely to happen.)

A jury of seven men and five women was picked for the corruption trial of Joe Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but not before prospective panelists sounded off about how all politicians are «scoundrels.»

For his part, Cuomo declined to comment during the trial about any revelations, saying he had a «respect» for the judiciary and jury while the proceedings were ongoing.

Two other jurors joined in voicing concerns about the length of the trial and the burdens of jury service.

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.

That includes attending all meetings requested by law enforcement, providing any documents sought and testifying «before the grand jury and at any trial and other court proceedings with respect to matters about which this office may request.»

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about thousands of teamsters avoiding a pension cut, the jury selection process in the trial of UAlbany students accused of making up allegations of being the targets of a racist attack on a CDTA bus, and the tragic story of a boat and the death of an eight - year - old girl.

The jury of seven women and five men on Friday sent Azrack notes that requested a «cheat sheet» of all the evidence entered over the course of the trial, a 10 - minute smoking break and information to review about Linda Mangano.

As a jury continues to deliberate in the bribery trial of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, the Democrat has been keeping his focus on other matters, including appearing with former Vice President Al Gore to talk about energy and the environment.

But make it a fantasy of celebrity and, in O.J.'s case, miscegenation, sexual jealousy, retribution, and so on... It wasn't about the trial, man, it was about the way narrate history; when the jury came back with exactly the wrong conclusion, it served to confirm that nothing that you see has anything to do with what's real.

After that, I didn't write anything more about the crime until Isaiah Kalebu's jury trial, which began almost two years later in the summer of 2011.

Nasa's top climate scientist Jim Hansen told a jury at the trial of 20 environmental activists that he had begun speaking out about climate change again in the past five years because of his grandchildren.

Judge Fontaine ruled out use of the «necessity» defense prior to the trial, and she also would not allow me to inform the jury about factors affecting Foster's state of mind and his action.

The decision is a useful read for those considering utilizing a jury trial, as well as for those who are simply interested in learning about a facet of our justice system that often does not receive significant discussion.

We are told that the trial was only about two days long, and the facts are simple, yet the jury deliberated about 10 - 12 hours before convicting.

Also, the judge is within his rights to punish the potential juror if he determines that the potential juror is actually lying about his ability to be impartial in an effort to evade jury service rather than because he sincerely believes that he can't be fair, and judges have wide authority to determine the credibility and truthfulness of statements made to him in open court (i.e. if the trial judge finds that you are lying, this determination will almost always be honored by an appellate court considering the judge's actions).

Despite including the phrase «These rules apply to jurors the same as they apply to the parties and to me,» in an admonition to the jury about social media usage during trial, Texas Judge Michelle Slaughter disregarded her own warning while presiding over the hotly contested «boy in the box» case of 2015.

While we can not be certain that the results presented here provide clear support for the CSI Effect, both the data and my conversations with the juries following trial suggest that questions about the amount and type of evidence collected regularly arise while the jurors are deliberating.

The blog offers advice to trial attorneys about the various aspects of the courtroom, including how to write opening statements and how to best influence a jury.

«The case is one of a rising number nationally in which jurors have used iPhones, BlackBerrys and home computers to gather and send information about cases, undermining judges and jury trials,» writes Courier - Journal reporter Andrew Wolfson.

About 10 % of cases go to trial and about 10 % of cases that go to trial result in an acquittal or hung jury (in very round and approximate numbers that vary greatly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and by type of cAbout 10 % of cases go to trial and about 10 % of cases that go to trial result in an acquittal or hung jury (in very round and approximate numbers that vary greatly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and by type of cabout 10 % of cases that go to trial result in an acquittal or hung jury (in very round and approximate numbers that vary greatly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and by type of case).

At trial, attorneys sometimes want the jury to hear about reports and conclusions of treating doctors without actually having those treating doctors come to court to testify.

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Ideas include: 1) writing about a recent news story as it relates to your practice areas, 2) writing about new cases as they are issued and include your take on the case, 3) writing about another blogger's recent post and provide an opposing, or alternate, viewpoint, or 4) answering questions about the legal process that clients typically ask you, such as what types of information they should bring to the first appointment or how long a jury trial might last.

We have previously blogged about the trial court decision where a jury found Forcillo guilty of attempted murder in the death of 18 - year - old Sammy Yatim («Yatim»).

If there are accusations about domestic violence in a child custody case, the judge has to hold an «evidentiary hearing» (a trial before a judge without a jury) to decide whether a parent has engaged in one or more acts of domestic violence against the other parent, the child, or another family or household member.

One final note — at trial, juries do not typically know about the noneconomic damages cap.

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