Sentences with phrase «among jurors»

They decide that the defendant certainly killed the victim, but there is significant doubt among jurors that the murder was premeditated.

Jamillah James, curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, was among the jurors.

NEWS April 23: Curator Franklin Sirmans and artist Wangechi Mutu are among jurors announced for 2015 ArtPrize (Sept 23 — Oct 11) in Grand Rapids, Mich..

However, while suggesting this CSI Effect is perhaps not quite as widespread as one might imagine among jurors, informatician Richard Overill of King's College London believes it might have a positive effect on reducing the tendency to criminal behaviour among some individuals.

He said the two separate trials will also result in less confusion among jurors in the sweeping set of charges.

Percoco's defense lawyers have given hints of how they intend to sow doubt among the jurors.

Not exact matches

I doubt that any juror among us believed that the defendant was innocent of all involvement in the brutal robbery and murder of a Christian layman discharging his responsibilities.

Some prospective jurors, meanwhile, talked softly among themselves.

In the voir dire process, jurors with strong opinions about the case were weeded out, and jurors seemed to talk amicably among themselves during breaks.

Those were the two narratives presented to jurors today in the Manhattan federal courthouse where Mr. Silver, still an assemblyman and once among the three most powerful men in the state, is standing trial on charges of honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering for allegedly taking more than $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks.

Among the prospective jurors, popular answers to Azrack's question about the public figure they most admire were former president Barack Obama, former first lady Michelle Obama, former President Ronald Reagan and former talk show host Oprah Winfrey.

A juror asked to be dismissed from the Sheldon Silver trial again on Monday, leading us to believe that either the position is cursed exactly like the Defense Against the Dark Arts professorship at Hogwarts, or it's otherwise triggering a corruption - inspired allergic reaction among the people forced to listen to days of testimony about the state legislator's extracurricular activities.

For several jurors among the group of eight woman and four men, Mr. Silver's relationship with Dr. Taub, who referred mesothelioma patients with potentially profitable legal claims to a law firm that then paid Mr. Silver, seemed to come down to this: one man helping another out, just because he could.

Features interviews with many involved including Marcia Clark, F. Lee Bailey, Ron Shipp, Mark Fuhrman, Ron Goldman and two of the jurors among many others.

Among the panelists were Joe Robert Cole, a screenwriter who wrote pivotal episodes five and eight, chronicling the jurors» visit to the crime scene and their epic sequestration.

Craig Kennedy found the the jurors on a list online and named them: Quentin Tarantino, (President), Kathleen Turner, Tsui Hark, Peter Von Bagh, among others, and Tilda Swinton.

EDA Awards presented at festivals are juried exclusively by AWFJ members, often creating a fairer overall gender parity among festival jurors.

Thivisol's best actress prize at Venice occasioned a series of articles in Variety and elsewhere about whether or not what she did was acting (one of the jurors at Venice, Anjelica Huston, pointed out to me in an interview that there were only four female lead performances, including Thivisol's, among the 20 or so competition films).

The World Car Award committee, which was co-founded by Canada's own Beth Rhind, is directed by veteran Canadian journalist Gerry Malloy and counts Autofocus» own Mark Richardson among its 75 jurors, gives out awards in five different categories each year.

Houston - based artist Michael Ray Charles was among the Prize winners and the jurors included artist Gary Simmons.

Juror Robbin Zella, is Director and Curator of the Housatonic Museum of Art in Bridgeport, CT, where, since 1998, she has organized over 80 exhibitions that have introduced audiences to works by Ansel Adams, Jenny Holzer, Sol Le Witt, Rembrandt, Andy Warhol, and Robert Rauchenberg, among others.

Exhibit: August 11 — September 10, 2017 Awards Ceremony, Reception & Gallery Talk: Saturday, August 12, 4:00 - 6:00 PM Juror: Ashley Givens, Former Assistant Curator of Photographs, Victoria & Albert Museum, London The 2017 Photoworks Youth Competition showcases the breadth of talent among a great number of budding photographers (all 18 years of age and younger) from -LSB-...]

A side advantage of this is that capital murder cases take up a lot of a juror's time, so splitting the responsibility among multiple jurors is more fair to people doing compulsory jury duty.

There followed a brief but heated exchange about this among several jurors, but nothing was reported to the trial judge.

Because yesterday, as reported by the Tex Parte blog, the court released proposed amendments to the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure that, among other things, would hammer home the point that the internets are no place for jurors to be hanging out.

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly writes this week about the divide among lawyers on monitoring social media use and Internet activities by jurors.

Among judges who do not permit attorneys to use social media during the jury selection process, the most common reasons were concerns about logistics and the privacy of jurors.

Given that as an advocate I want to get the vote of each juror, the last thing I want to do is risk any juror's misunderstanding a graphic or, worse, being mad that he (and incidence of color deficiency is greater among men) can not understand or process the chart placed before him and about which I or the witness is yammering.»

Among many other accomplishments, he is notable for his role as Juror # 5 and having been the last surviving cast member of the original 1957 -LSB-...]

Known as acquitted and uncharged conduct sentencing, the practice is raising a sharp question among legal scholars: Should federal judges dole out tougher sentences based on accusations that jurors rejected or never heard during trial?

Citing «acrimony» among jury members — one juror complained Thursday that another threatened twice to cut off his finger — Judge Patterson insisted that each juror be polled individually to ensure no votes were made under duress.

I prepared for some skepticism among potential jurors.

In a unanimous decision, the court ruled that while there is «continuing confusion» among courts in Kentucky, criminal contempt hearings for jurors should be open to the public.

Among his current research endeavors, Professor Leippe is studying how motivational and cognitive biases associated with social and self - identity, values, and implicit and explicit prejudice affect juror decisions.