Sentences with phrase «as in jury trials»

Except for the right to a jury, both parties have the same legal rights in bench trials as in jury trials.

Not exact matches

As one airline lawyer commented after the trial: «Having a jury determine that the provisions in that contract were illegal obviously raises very serious implications for Sabre if they want to continue to insist on them in contracts.»

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.

There is a brief mention in Article III of jury trial not being available for impeachment, and there is probably a suggestion in Article I that members of Congress will not usually be impeached, as each house has the power to (I, 5) to expel one of their members on their own.

So, one of the main differences between minors who get charges, juveniles and are tried in juvenile court as supposed to adults who get charge and tried in adult court is juvenile are not entitled to get a jury trial.

«Yvonne Cryns told the parents that she had delivered hundreds of babies, including breech babies, and even showed them pictures of those deliveries,» Lake County Assistant State's Atty. Claudia Kasten told the jury as Cryns» trial on involuntary manslaughter charges began in a Waukegan courtroom.

It covers everything from the right to privacy and the increase in electronic surveillance, through to issues such as the proposed reduction of trial by jury - all contemporary topics

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.

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.

COIB's announcement of the fines, and Stringer's scrutiny of Department of Correction spending, comes the same day that a jury is reportedly deadlocked in the corruption trial of former correction union president Norman Seabrook, who is accused of making a deal with a hedge fund to pocket $ 60,000 in exchange for agreeing to steer union money into the fund, which has since been revealed as one of the largest Ponzi schemes in recent memory.

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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.

A jury found Queens City Councilman Ruben Wills guilty on five of six counts against him in his corruption trial, and he automatically lost his seat as a result.

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 24 - year - old Marcos Felizola - Torres of Buffalo pleaded guilty as charged to Burglary in the First Degree on the first day of jury selection for his trial.

Former state Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada was beaming outside court yesterday as contentious jury deliberations in his Brooklyn federal corruption trial plodded along.

Ethel Shelton wept as the jury in her public corruption trial found her guilty Monday in Hammond's federal court.

In Thursday's ruling, the appellate court ruled the judge's erroneous instruction to the jury at Silver's trial «was not harmless because it is not clear beyond a reasonable doubt that a rational jury would have reached the same conclusion if properly instructed, as is required by law for the verdict to stand.»

A damning report was quietly published three years later, just as a jury was reaching its verdict in the Lee Rigby trial.

In a moment of courtroom levity, Caproni announced at the conclusion of Thursday's deliberations that a juror had sent a note informing the court that she had been summoned to serve jury duty in another courthouse on Thursday, even as she served her seventh week on the Percoco trial jurIn a moment of courtroom levity, Caproni announced at the conclusion of Thursday's deliberations that a juror had sent a note informing the court that she had been summoned to serve jury duty in another courthouse on Thursday, even as she served her seventh week on the Percoco trial jurin another courthouse on Thursday, even as she served her seventh week on the Percoco trial jury.

Just as jury selection was scheduled to begin in the gang - assault trial of three Attica Prison corrections officers, those guards have accepted a plea deal.

Ministers have given verbal assurances that the bill's powers, which would allow them to make orders to change primary legislation in all but a few specific instances, would not be used to change major laws such as the right to trial by jury.

The SC is not a trial court but an appellate one and should never constitute itself into a prosecutor, judge and jury and sit in its own cause as if it is the Chief's Palace where the accused is hauled before the Chief and his elders, tried, found guilty and ordered to present seventy - two rams and seventy - two bottles of schnapps to pacify the gods and ancestors in a constitutional democracy.

That leaves Judge David Zuckerman as the only judge that presides over criminal jury trials in Rockland.

On 10 counts, that could mean a jury, as seen before in at least one Albany - related corruption trial, convicts on some counts, acquits on others and issues no verdicts on some charges.

A federal judge seated a jury of six women and six men Monday in the federal corruption trial of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto — as Mangano maintained he would be exonerated.

Lynch ruled some of the witnesses could in fact be considered accomplices but a grand jury does not need to be instructed to the same degree of precision as a trial jury.

Joseph Percoco, a former aide to N.Y. Governor Andrew Cuomo, arrives at federal court as the jury continues to deliberate in his corruption trial Monday in New York.

Scores of prospective jurors are to appear for questioning on Monday morning in the United States Courthouse in Lower Manhattan as the jury selection process advances in the corruption trial of Assemblyman Sheldon Silver.

In New York City, the Dean Skelos corruption trial nears an end as the jury has begun deliberations.

The jury selection for the trial of Percoco — as well as three other co-defendants who allegedly bribed him — is set to begin in January.

A Manhattan federal jury found Ahmad Khan Rahimi, 29, guilty as charged on eight counts following a two - week trial over the twin blasts in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood and in Seaside Park, N.J,.

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.

Closing arguments ended this morning & the Jury received their orders this afternoon, as the trial of Ramadan Abdullah draws to a conclusion in Broome County Court.

As he unveiled the charges against one of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's top lieutenants, Preet Bharara hoped aloud for a jury trial «so that all New Yorkers can see, in gory detail, what their state government has been up to.»

«The defendant tried to bribe his way onto the ballot for New York City mayor,» said Douglas B. Bloom, an assistant United States attorney, as the bribery and wire fraud trial of Mr. Smith and two other defendants got underway before a 12 - person jury in a federal courthouse in White Plains.

Mr. Litwin was not charged with any crime, though he was named a co-conspirator in one case, and never appeared in a courtroom for either trial as the juries convicted Assemblyman Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat and former Assembly speaker, and State Senator Dean G. Skelos, a Long Island Republican and Senate majority leader, of bribery, extortion and conspiracy charges.

Mike Jarboe, an editor at the Times Union, was summoned to jury duty in Albany County and listened as other prospective jurors were questioned by Acting State Supreme Court Justice Dan Lamont in a drug trial.

Caird came to the witness stand in the trial of County Democratic Elections Commissioner Edward McDonough and former City Councilman Michael LoPorto for ballot fraud to provide the jury with an inside look at what was happening as the case began to develop.

Edie Greene, a psychologist at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, instead suggests that the case should be split into separate liability and damages trials, so that the jury only receives the relevant facts — a process known as bifurcation.

He has weighed in on educational policy, the fallibility of jury trials, «pseudoscientific drivel» such as quantum healing, the «yahooish complacency» of postmodernism, terrorism, and governmental stem cell and cloning policy.

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25.8 With the exception of your agreement to waive any right to a jury trial or to participate in a class action, if any other provision in this Section 25 is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be fully severable, this Section 25 shall be construed and enforced as if such illegal, invalid or unenforceable provision had never comprised a part of this section, and the remaining provisions of this section shall remain in full force and effect.

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John Cusack (Identity, Serendipity) stars as Nick Easter, who reluctantly goes in for jury duty for a major trial involving the lawsuit of the gun company which manufactured the weapon used in an office shooting which killed almost a dozen people, including the plaintiff's husband.

In any proceeding for criminal contempt arising under title II, III, IV, V, VI, or VII of this Act, the accused, upon demand therefor, shall be entitled to a trial by jury, which shall conform as near as may be to the practice in criminal caseIn any proceeding for criminal contempt arising under title II, III, IV, V, VI, or VII of this Act, the accused, upon demand therefor, shall be entitled to a trial by jury, which shall conform as near as may be to the practice in criminal casein criminal cases.

Apple agreed to settle in the states» consumer lawsuits to avoid a jury trial that could have resulted in damages as high as $ 840 million, once punitive amounts are factored in.

IN ARBITRATION, NEITHER PARTY WILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL OR TO ENGAGE IN DISCOVERY, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED FOR IN THE AAA CODE OF PROCEDURE.

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As William Young, then chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Boston observed in a 2004 opinion: «The focus of our entire criminal justice system has shifted away from trials and juries and adjudication to a massive system of sentence bargaining that is heavily rigged against the accused.»