Sentences with phrase «as a juror of»

We are thrilled to have our friend, Bill Arning, serve as the juror of the upcoming West region competition.

Pat has served as a juror of selection and awards for many exhibitions including juror of selection for the 2010 American Watercolor Society Exhibition and the 2005 National Watercolor Society Exhibition.

Odili Donald Odita served as juror of the «The Woodmere Annual: 75th Juried Exhibition at the Woodmere Art Museum» in Philadelphia, asking the artists (70 are participating, selected from 448 entries) to respond to a theme for the first time, «The Condition of Place.»

Not exact matches

«It's OK to exclude people who can't follow the law and their oaths as jurors, but you can't say that anyone with qualms about capital punishment is ineligible,» Richard Re, an assistant law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, told Business Insider in an email.

Levitt, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a former US intelligence agent, told jurors he did not know if the materials found on Tsarnaev's computer, including sermons by US - born Al Qaeda figure Anwar al - Awlaki and issues of Al Qaeda's «Inspire» magazine, were put there by Tsarnaev or by someone else, such as his brother.

Those who knew Gowdy during his 16 years as a state and federal prosecutor in South Carolina say he also has a gift of the gab and a willingness to tug on jurors» heartstrings.

Laughter suddenly erupted in the courtroom, without the jurors present, as all who were there simultaneously recalled defense attorney Benjamin Brafman's reference to the work and planning that goes into manufacturing bags of potato chips.

The production itself was a highly polished affair held at Deutsch's Steelhead production studios in L.A., with the jurors seated around massive tables, glowing lights making them appear as if they were a circle of overlords deciding the fate of the universe.

Although a federal agent told jurors he had been investigating Karpeles, U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest later struck much of that testimony as improper.

The new information from these documents comes just two weeks after a Philadelphia grand jury report said the jurors had «no doubt» that Bevilacqua's «knowing and deliberate actions during his tenure as archbishop also endangered thousands of children in the Philadelphia Archdiocese.»

I said it to hotair already, but I will expand it a bit for you: what is evidence for some is not accepted by everyone; just as in a court case, some jurors are convinced with very little evidence while some people can not be convinced of something no matter how much evidence there is... much of this comes from how you were raised and your own personal world view, for many people God does not fit into their world view so whatever evidence there is they close their eyes and say, «No, I don't believe that!»

Sunday's verdicts followed a three - month trial, in which jurors heard wiretaps of Shafia referring to his daughters as «whores» and ranting about their behavior.

Your god as you describe it plainly would be an ASS HOLE, for threatening eternal torture for «sins» of a short mortal lifetime, and would be convicted of human rights abuse by any reasonable set of jurors.

The Utah Supreme Court has reversed Warren Steed Jeffs» two convictions on charges of rape as an accomplice and ordered a new trial, saying instructions given to jurors were erroneous.

The burden of proving guilt «beyond a reasonable doubt» is far from absolute as a protection against the accidents of incriminating circumstance, the political ambitions of some prosecutors, the potential for framed evidence, the passions of communities, and the prejudices and limitations of jurors, judges and prosecutors alike.

Obviously my testimony here is that of a layman and a novice, based on a single experience as a juror in a criminal case.

Potentially big news out of St. Louis today, where a grand juror in the Darren Wilson trial, who is known only as «Grand Jury Doe,» is suing St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch, alleging that McCulloch presented information in a «muddled» and «untimely» manner.

Furthermore, conclusions are not consistent, as evidenced by the advantage of picking your jurors.

Samantha Juna, TricorBraun industrial design manager, will serve as a juror in the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) Student Merit Awards competition in March

The James Beard Foundation announced today a distinguished panel of jurors that will serve as the judging authority for the 2018 Restaurant Design Awards.

The jurors listened as lawyers argued that the trial was about the rights of midwives and parents to choose home birth, and they were aware of the daily presence of midwife advocates who filled the courtroom in support of Cryns.

But differences in opinion surfaced as jurors moved on to whether Cryns was guilty of manslaughter after the birth, Drath said.

As jurors prepare to weigh manslaughter charges against a midwife who attended an unsuccessful birth, there are those who believe much more is at stake than the fate of one woman.

Ed Vaizey has been named as one of the jurors who will bring Shakespeare's historical play to life at London's Novello Theatre next month.

In the letter, the attorneys write that» when constitutionally - protected contributions are trotted out as evidence of a bribery scheme — particularly when they have scant relevance to the alleged scheme — jurors are unlikely to consider them merely on the convoluted signaling theories the Government relies on for its assertion of probative value.»

«To the wider public who come into contact with it — as witnesses, defendants or jurors, but most crucially, as victims - this is a system that often does not deliver the level of service they expect, want or deserve,» he is expected to say later.

I» m sure that Gillibrand — a big tobacco lawyer that never actually set foot in a courtroom (except as a spectator or a juror) is PETRIFIED of debating a master trial lawyer like Mrs. Long.

A juror in the Joe Percoco corruption case was called for service on a second jury as deliberations stretch into the seventh week of trial.

This raises the specter of a mistrial, though the judge, Valerie E. Caproni, ordered the jurors to continue deliberating, delivering a version of what is known as an Allen charge, an instruction typically given to juries when they suggest that they have reached an impasse.

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.

One of Howe's tasks as a lobbyist was securing meetings with government officials for his clients, and he told jurors Monday that he did just that, meeting frequently with Glaser and Percoco.

NEW YORK CITY — As the seventh week of the New York corruption trial comes to a close, jurors have not yet reached a verdict.

Judge Joan M. Azrack, in addressing a room full of prospective jurors on Monday, let it be known that they'd been selected as representatives of one of the largest federal district court jurisdictions in the nation, covering Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Nassau and Suffolk counties.

It didn't take long for the first pair of notes to emerge — one of which said Juror No. 2 had been selected as the group's foreman.

The jury drama in the corruption trial of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver continued on Monday, as Juror No. 11, an African - American man from the Bronx, asked to be dismissed over a conflict of interest.

Liberal 9th Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt, who struck down California's Proposition 8 as well as gay marriage bans in Nevada and Idaho, and wrote a ruling that barred jurors from being removed because of sexual orientation, has died at 87.

Also Wednesday, jurors for the first time heard the voice of Venditto in the court proceeding when prosecutors entered as evidence an October 2016 video of him presiding over a town board meeting.

«You didn't hear any evidence that he held himself out to Mr. Aiello or to Mr. Gerardi as a guy who would be going back into government where he could sell his office to them for the money that he was earning as a consultant during the summer of 2014,» Bohrer told jurors in his closing arguments.

But Judge Valerie E. Caproni ordered the jurors to continue deliberating, delivering a version of what is known as an Allen charge, an instruction typically given to juries when they suggest that they have reached an impasse.

The prosecutor said jurors could impute that state of mind from other factors in the case, including the perception of other people involved in the exchanges as well as what he called Silver's «lies» on required disclosure forms and in response to press inquiries.

The judge told jurors as much before dismissing them for the day on Tuesday, instructing them that the equivalent of two days of deliberations in a complex corruption case was «not unreasonable and it's not excessive.»

The Skelos trial is expected to showcase a facet of politics that is more bare knuckles than the evidence that has surfaced in the Silver trial, where jurors are being told that the longtime politician disguised bribes as legal fees.

By lunch break in the trial of Linda Mangano, Edward Mangano and former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, however, some jurors sat with folded arms as the exhibits and the verbal jousting between Carman and Singh seemed to go on and on.

The government's final witness was FBI special agent Deanna Pennetta, a certified public accountant who prepared a number of spreadsheets and diagrams based on business records, phone calls and other documents related to Silver that the jurors will be able to review as evidence.

At the beginning of the session, jurors were attentive as Carman added exhibit after exhibit to the mix, in an attempt to show that the former Nassau county executive's wife — despite Singh's assertions to the contrary — did perform some work for Singh's company.

«The exhibit as a whole may be interpreted by potential jurors as the Court's celebration of criminal convictions in significant cases, and particularly cases involving allegations of public corruption,» said the letter filed by Daniel Gitner, a lawyer for former energy company executive Peter Kelly, a co-defendant.

But prosecutors argued — and, apparently, persuaded jurors — that circumstantial evidence showed implicit threats and understandings as part of the «Skelos shake down playbook.»

In addition, prosecutors and defense attorneys occasionally would confer with each other, as the prosecutors and the defense hammered down the specifics of a jury charge — the instructions Azrack will give jurors before they begin deliberations.

Another juror, Arleen Phillips, 53, of Mount Vernon, N.Y., identified herself as the person who wrote to the judge last week asking to be excused.

The juror, Kenneth Graham, a taxi driver, told the judge he had learned during the Thanksgiving recess that the owner of the medallion cab he drove was a good friend of Mr. Silver's, and belonged to the same synagogue as the assemblyman.