Courts can also move the trial to a new location; they can grant motions from the defense to delay the trial while things cool down; they can sequester the jurors (meaning that the jurors are kept in a central place and prevented from talking to anyone else or
reading anything about the case); if none of these are done, a conviction can potentially be reversed on appeal.
The Argersinger rule also tends to impair the proper functioning of the criminal justice system in that trial judges, in advance of hearing any evidence and before knowing
anything about the case except the charge, all too often will be compelled to forgo the legislatively granted option to impose a sentence of imprisonment upon conviction.
For example, the first proposed instruction excerpted above would replace one that currently reads «Do not
discuss anything about this case, or even mention it to anyone whomsoever, including your wife or husband, nor permit anyone to mention it in your hearing until you are discharged as jurors or excused from this case.
In days gone by, judges were not expected to know
anything about a case in advance of starting the trial, lest they might come to it with prejudged expectations.
While Samsung has not
confirmed anything about the case for those in the U.S., at least one U.S. Cellular user has received a warning that says the Galaxy Note 7 will be disabled as from next week.
When asked for allocutus, Nmadu insisted that he did not
know anything about the case and that he had been in prison since 2011, adding that his mum that was the only person who visited him died in an accident on the way from Anambra.
Current Niagara District Councilman David Rivera, a retired Buffalo Police officer, says he has known Quintana for years, but he says he didn't know
anything about the case.
I spoke briefly last week to state Independence Party Chairman Frank MacKay about the Oneida County DA's probe of the local Indy chapter and he told me he didn't know
anything about the case and didn't plan on getting involved.
If you know
anything about this case — you're urged to call Tempe police.
It was 2 - 3 yrs ago around 9 - 10 p.m. I do not know the lawyer concerned or
anything about his case, but I certainly believe his unusual story could be true, whether or not that would help him.
The thing is that case law doesn't tell
you anything about cases that a prosecutor did not pursue, so there is really no objective basis for guessing, unless someone does a large - scale survey of prosecutors.