Sentences with phrase «allow members of the jury»

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Then the state attorney general's office argued that the grand jury had been four members short of the full panel, and a judge allowed the case to be resubmitted.

Question topics included the recent rollout of the City's municipal ID program, an internal PBA meeting reported to have degenerated into yelling and shoving over PBA President Pat Lynch's demands for an apology from the mayor and whether that provided «consolation» to the mayor, whether he takes comfort from the low number of PBA members reported to have signed «stay away from my funeral» statements, Bratton's comment that the «well was poisoned» by de Blasio's bring of former Sharpton aide Rachel Noerdlinger, a potential Teamsters strike at Hunts Point market, Governor Cuomo's consideration of legislation allowing public access to grand jury minutes, the mayor's objections to a City Council proposed bill outlawing police use of chokeholds, a reported Cuomo / Lynch meeting and what role the governor should fill in the Lynch / de Blasio dispute, whether the mayor is willing to acknowledge «missteps», the reports of Legionnaire's Disease in Co-op City, de Blasio's reaction to a possible 2016 Mitt Romney candidacy and when he last spoke with the Rev. Al Sharpton.

«We have asked members of this community to sit in as a panel, and, just like a grand jury, to have cases presented to them, and allow for the community members to make decisions as to whther or not these cases should be prosecuted traditionally or alternatives should be sought for these cases.

«The law, generally, does not allow me to meet with a member of a deliberating jury, because the secrecy of jury deliberations is a cornerstone of our jury system.»

There is real value is how it allows each member of the cultural mosaic of a jury to develop into distinct, damaged, and interesting characters