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And because the case - specific use of peremptory challenges by the State does not deny blacks the right to serve as jurors in cases involving nonblack defendants, it harms neither the excluded jurors nor the remainder of the community.

«Although the issues at stake in this action involve the private rights of the litigants, the motion relief sought by the plaintiff involves much broader considerations that may impact the rights of other parties involved in motor vehicle accident cases as well as possibly the rights of citizens of Ontario to sit as jurors in those cases,» the judge wrote.

«20 Mack jurors picked, 15 to go»: The Reno Gazette - Journal today contains an article that begins, «Continuing at a snail's pace, defense attorneys and prosecutors questioned another 14 people on Thursday and selected five to potentially serve as jurors in the Darren Mack murder case.»

As jurors in the Martin Shkreli fraud trial finished a fourth day with no verdict, the «Pharma Bro» turned to social media

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

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

She has enlisted as a Citizen Schools volunteer teacher, teaching a culinary course and serving as a juror in a WOW!

Here as a juror in conjunction with the Fort Worth's AIA annual competition, for Tuesday Evenings Reiter presents his work and ideas on architecture.

3) Question: I received a summons to serve as a juror in my own murder trial.

In a decision released yesterday, HM Attorney General v Davey [2013] EWHC 2317 (Admin), the High Court of England and Wales gave leave for applications for committal orders for contempt of court against two men, each of whom had sat as a juror in a criminal case and each of whom had used the internet in contravention of instructions not to do so.

Based on Rose's own experience as a juror in a manslaughter trial, the play was first adapted for TV by Sidney Lumet, who went on to direct the movie version, his first feature film.

I served as a juror in a short criminal trial years before my initial engagement as a complainant / petitioner / plaintiff in a series of civil matters.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In 2015 he was presented with a DuPont Global Packaging Innovation Award for his work and leadership associated with the DuPont Awards, for which he has served as Lead Juror for the past six years.

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.

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.»

A Westchester County judge on Tuesday declared a mistrial in the corruption case against Democratic Queens Sen. Malcolm Smith after four jurors needed to excused as the case was expected to continue for another month.

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.

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.

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.

Howe told jurors that while Percoco was serving in the governor's office he spoke with him daily, but also counted former senior Cuomo aides Howard Glaser and Jim Malatras as close connections, along with other staffers in the Cuomo administration.

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.

His statement recalled a conversation secretly recorded in 2015 on an FBI body wire and played as evidence for jurors on March 29.

«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.

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.

The woman said in a note that her heart was pounding as she was being criticized by other jurors who said she lacked common sense.

«Good morning, good morning,» Azrack, as she usually does, said as jurors walked in to take their seats.

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.

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.

The protest came up repeatedly in court Monday, as the judge asked each potential juror whether they had seen the commotion and whether it could affect their judgment.

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.

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.

In Assemblyman Sheldon Silver's corruption case, in which no witness testified directly to knowledge of an illegal quid pro quo, how Judge Valerie Caproni tells jurors to interpret the evidence as it relates to the law could sway deliberationIn Assemblyman Sheldon Silver's corruption case, in which no witness testified directly to knowledge of an illegal quid pro quo, how Judge Valerie Caproni tells jurors to interpret the evidence as it relates to the law could sway deliberationin which no witness testified directly to knowledge of an illegal quid pro quo, how Judge Valerie Caproni tells jurors to interpret the evidence as it relates to the law could sway deliberations.

Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg reprised his role as a public servant today, joining a pool of dozens of potential jurors in an assault and coercion case in Manhattan.

More than 100 prospective jurors filled out questionnaires yesterday, as prosecutors and defense lawyers sought to identify potential bias or conflicts that might disqualify people from serving next week in the corruption trial of ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

The case against Smith ended in a mistrial last month when too few jurors were able to serve as the trial went a month longer than expected.