Sentences with phrase «as jurors when»

What does it say to our contribution as jurors when we see our verdicts, in my personal view, not given their proper weight.

Viscusi concluded that judges exhibit the same biases as jurors when reasoning, but are more sensitive to details of the cases being judged, more coherent in their reasoning about probabilities, gains, and losses; and more accurate than jurors.

Not exact matches

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.»

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.

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.

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.

A second round of laughter came from prospective jurors when Bricetti read a long list of individuals whose names might come up during the trial, including prominent Westchester political figures like Nick Spano, the Republican former senator - turned - lobbyist who was jailed for tax evasion, as well as former Westchester DA Jeanine Pirro and her ex-husband Al Pirro.

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.

The brazen Bronx pol grinned like a Cheshire cat as he sauntered out of Manhattan federal court yesterday after the judge declared a mistrial when jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked on a slate of charges that many saw as a slam dunk.

The presiding judge, Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court, told jurors at the outset of the trial that the government must prove that Mr. Silver knowingly participated in a scheme to defraud and «received things of value in the form of bribes or kickbacks, and that he knew when he accepted those things he was expected, in exchange, to take official action as the opportunity arose.»

Philip Guston, Franz Kline, and Sam Hunter arrived from New York as the jurors for the annual Exhibition Momentum, [xxx] and lent much accreditation to the group when they included nearly every member of the Wells Street Group in their tight selection of 30 artists.

(The same juried exhibition that saw Franz Kline and Philip Guston get into a drunken spree when they returned as jurors for «Exhibition Momentum» 57») During the 1960s where he exhibited regularly with the Holland - Goldowsky Gallery -LRB-» 60,» 63).

, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA 14th Annual Inliquid Benefit Auction, Gallery Joe Booth, Icebox Project Space, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2013 In Front of Strangers, I Sing: 72nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA 2012 Transformations, Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, Philadelphia, PA All About Etchings, Chris Neptune Gallery, Washington, DC 2011 Something French, Art Gallery at City Hall, Philadelphia, PA Exhibition of Select Prints, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA 2010 Prints by Gallery Artists, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA Selections from C.R. Ettinger Studio, 2000 - 2010, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2009 50 very small drawings, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA 2008 The Figure Today, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY The Figure Today, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA Fantastical Imaginings, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE Group Show, Loyola University, Baltimore, MD 2007 Magical Realism, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA 2006 Art on Paper 2006, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC 2005 Telling Stories: The Narrative in Contemporary Art, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA Collaboration As a Medium, Edison Gallery, Washington, DC (traveling Art Place, Baltimore MD and more sites) 2004 Figure Out: Drawing as Narrative, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA 2002 25th Anniversary Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY 2001 Ten Contemporary Artists, 5 x 2, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA 2000 Drawing With Color, Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA When Reason Dreams: Drawings Inspired By the Visionary, the Fantastic, and the Unreal, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Body Dismorphia, Hicks Art Center, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA curated by Jeanne Jaffe Allentown Art Museum, 27th Annual Juried Exhibition, Allentown, PA (Juror: Judith Tannenbaum, Curator, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI) 1999 Biographies: Philadelphia Narratives, Institute of Contemporary Art, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (catalog) Biographies: Philadelphia Narratives, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA (Nov. - DecAs a Medium, Edison Gallery, Washington, DC (traveling Art Place, Baltimore MD and more sites) 2004 Figure Out: Drawing as Narrative, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA 2002 25th Anniversary Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY 2001 Ten Contemporary Artists, 5 x 2, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA 2000 Drawing With Color, Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA When Reason Dreams: Drawings Inspired By the Visionary, the Fantastic, and the Unreal, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Body Dismorphia, Hicks Art Center, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA curated by Jeanne Jaffe Allentown Art Museum, 27th Annual Juried Exhibition, Allentown, PA (Juror: Judith Tannenbaum, Curator, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI) 1999 Biographies: Philadelphia Narratives, Institute of Contemporary Art, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (catalog) Biographies: Philadelphia Narratives, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA (Nov. - Decas Narrative, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA 2002 25th Anniversary Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY 2001 Ten Contemporary Artists, 5 x 2, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA 2000 Drawing With Color, Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA When Reason Dreams: Drawings Inspired By the Visionary, the Fantastic, and the Unreal, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Body Dismorphia, Hicks Art Center, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA curated by Jeanne Jaffe Allentown Art Museum, 27th Annual Juried Exhibition, Allentown, PA (Juror: Judith Tannenbaum, Curator, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI) 1999 Biographies: Philadelphia Narratives, Institute of Contemporary Art, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (catalog) Biographies: Philadelphia Narratives, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA (Nov. - Dec.)

However, even in the categories where jurors come close to rating both sides equally, the plaintiff attorneys are still not rated as low as the defense attorneys when the verdict is not returned in their favor and they are rated significantly higher than the defense attorneys when the verdict is returned in their favor.

If the jurors rated similarly situated attorneys equally, as one might expect, the lines on the graphs would appear as a perfect «X.» One would expect the defense attorneys to be rated significantly higher than the plaintiff attorneys when the juries return a verdict in favor of the defendant on all counts and the plaintiff attorneys to be rated significantly higher than the defense attorneys when the juries return a verdict in favor of the plaintiff on all counts.

The debate goes on, however, as to how attorneys should use the internet when it comes to jurors.

When you have a chance to serve as an independent juror, please: Show up and get on the jury.

If the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case influences the dominant narrative that pops into our minds when we address the kinds of questions Prof. Thompson poses, then it may pervert our perspective as a society of potential jurors.

The comments come as Ontario Superior Court Justice Kelly Gorman raised eyebrows last week when she ordered the sheriff to round up potential jurors off the street.

As reported in The Recorder, the proposed rule was prompted by a jury - selection episode in June, when an entire panel of 600 jurors had to be excused after it was discovered that several had conducted their own online research into the case.

Interestingly, jurors from ethnic communities, including black and Asian jurors, were also shown to align more with the defendant when compared to those who identify as white British, suggesting a greater likelihood of a not guilty verdict.

In light of this brief summary, and paraphrasing Justice Fish's point from Krieger, one could perhaps say that jurors have the responsibility as a matter of right to assess evidence and apply the law as set out by the trial judge, but also enjoy the power to refuse to apply the law «when their consciences permit of no other course».

Knowing that one of the jurors had years of experience as an architect, Mr. Catalano told the jury that the situation equated itself to the circumstance «When a building inspector finds a structural flaw, he's not going to sign off on the building until he knows it won't collapse.»

However, in exceptional cases, when acting as the conscience of the community and as a bulwark against oppressive laws and their enforcement, jurors may properly refuse to apply the law as written.

Although the trial court in this case used an alternate procedure for checking whether prospective jurors had such a disqualifying relationship, the Georgia Court of Appeals held that such a modified procedure is impermissible when, as is the case here, a party requests that qualification be done during voir dire and in open court.

To this end, «a party to a civil case is entitled to have the jury qualified by the court as to any insurance carrier with a financial interest in the case,» Ford Motor Co. v. Conley, 294 Ga. 530, 550 (2014), for even when the insurer may not be a direct party to the action, a relationship with a non-party insurer with a pecuniary interest may sway a putative juror's vote.

1) Question: I happened to be walking by the courthouse in London, Ontario this morning when a police officer approached me and said I was required to enter the courthouse and serve as on a jury, as the court was short one juror.

When fees were increased to 10 cents a page in 2012, the amount of income from PACER increased to $ 145 million, «much of which was earmarked for other purposes such as courtroom technology, websites for jurors, and bankruptcy notification systems,» according to the suit.

Secrets of what being a juror entails will be revealed when cameras follow them into the deliberation room as they try to reach their verdict.

«When you sit as a juror, you are not permitted to discuss the case with anyone during the trial.

When Krug polled the jury after winning the trial, they told her that she only came up once, when a male juror referred to Krug as «him» and a female juror corrected When Krug polled the jury after winning the trial, they told her that she only came up once, when a male juror referred to Krug as «him» and a female juror corrected when a male juror referred to Krug as «him» and a female juror corrected him.

I would love to pick a jury, Sam, with my toes in the sand with the headset on, with jurors from around the world also with similar court authorized headsets and when you have these headsets on and you look to your left and your right, it's just as if you were in the room.

When I give someone information on their full, legal authority as a juror, I'm not telling them to vote one way or another.

This landmark case firmly grounded in English common law rights that were carried overseas by the colonists, including freedoms of religion, speech, and assembly, as well as the fundamental right of jurors to render a general verdict based on conscience, including setting aside the law when a just verdict requires it.

Given the possibility of jurors who might ignore the law as written, it's not surprising when picking jurors for a trial, lawyers — whose existence is dependent on an orderly society — will ask about nullification, usually in the slightly roundabout way:

Jurors can not serve as the conscience of the community when they do not know what punishments they are authorizing (except in capital cases, where jurors must at least find the defendant death - eligible).

In fact, at the beginning of the process when the jury is initially sworn in, each juror swears an oath to apply the law as it is given to them by the judge.

Refusal to deliver a Guilty verdict when jurors are aware that the law has technically been broken is known as jury nullification.

If that fresh evidence had existed at the time of Ms. Oakes» trial, and was presented to the jurors, we conclude that there is a reasonable possibility that the jury would have found that the admitted inconsistencies, lies and self - interest in Ms. Scott's testimony left them a reasonable doubt that her identification of Ms. Oakes as the murderer was reliable... [D] eference to the decision of the trier of fact can not play a significant role where that trier of fact was not in possession of critical information when it decided to convict.»

The charters — developed following consultation with stakeholders and court users — set a consistent standard across all crown, county and magistrates» courts, the Probate Service and the Royal Courts of Justice of what people can expect when attending as a claimant, juror, victim, witness, defendant or member of the public.