Sentences with phrase «as jury deliberations»

Venditto's lawyer, Agnifilo, said his client is «strong and confident and hopeful» and added that as jury deliberations start: «It's in God's hands.»

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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.

Former State Senate Leader Dean Skelos was stone - faced and silent as he left a federal courthouse where a jury found him and his son Adam guilty of public corruption charges today, after a four - week trial and just about eight hours of deliberations — but attorneys for both men said they would pursue legal challenges to the verdict.

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

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 jury.

Silver, 71, one of Albany's proverbial «three men in a room» who ruled the Assembly with seldom - questioned authority for 20 years, was stoic as the jury forewoman read seven consecutive verdicts of guilty on extortion, bribery and money - laundering charges on just the third day of deliberations.

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

After suggesting it was hopelessly deadlocked, the jury considering the fate of Joseph Percoco seems to have moved past its stalemate, as deliberations enter their second full week on Monday.

In the past the competition jury was not allowed to speak about the deliberations, but now, as Nanni Moretti, the Jury's chair, said, that taboo has been brojury was not allowed to speak about the deliberations, but now, as Nanni Moretti, the Jury's chair, said, that taboo has been broJury's chair, said, that taboo has been broken.

The award recognises the artist that produces the most outstanding exhibition, as determined by the award's jury, which will consider interest shown in the artist's work, the number of gallery visitors it attracts and the number of likes it gets on Instagram, as part of its deliberations.

After intense deliberation, the jury selected this year's award winners, with World 3: the History of Art as Ideas, edited by Huang Zhuan, winning Publication of the Year, Hu Xiangqian winning Young Artist of the Year, and Liu Wei winning Artist of the Year.

Over at Deliberations, Anne Reed poses a question as a general rule of thumb for evaluating the propriety of jury conduct online: «If the juror had done the same thing off line, what would we do?»

As Wisconsin lawyer and jury consultant Anne Reed posts at her blog, Deliberations, blogging has provided her with an easy opportunity to participate in conversations with law professors, a chasm never before bridged.

After only 15 hours of deliberations, the jury accepted the prosecution's theory that the sisters had been murdered in an honour killing because they had shamed their conservative Muslim family, and the first wife had been killed as she had not produced any children, and was therefore «no longer needed».

Wisconsin trial lawyer Anne Reed maintains the gallery as part of her blog about juries and jury trials, Deliberations.

The ruling, which takes effect Sept. 1, will require Michigan judges for the first time to instruct jurors not to use any handheld device, such as iPhones or Blackberrys, while in the jury box or during deliberations

Even as the Arkansas story broke, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that defense lawyers for former Pennsylvania Sen. Vincent J. Fumo moved to halt jury deliberations in his trial on federal corruption charges, contending that a juror posted messages to Twitter and Facebook, including one that said, «Stay tuned for a big announcement on Monday everyone!»

The personal injury lawyers at Ketchmark and McCreight, P.C. also video tape their own arguments and the deliberations of mock juries as a way of learning about how different lines of arguments work better than others and how various actions affect juries in different ways.

In fact, in his final year as a prosecutor in 1995, Mr. Papirmeister was dubbed as» The Minute Man» in a newspaper article chronicling his string of victories in homicide cases, where juries in three separate murder trials, each returned verdicts of guilt as to first degree murder, after just minutes of deliberation.

The judge of the Winnipeg murder trial has provided instructions for the jury as it prepares to enter deliberations on Wednesday.

We often feel that at times the jury is trying to rush through of the deliberations as quickly as possible.

However, the ratio between jury convictions and overall acquittals is more or less the same for offences of serious violence as for rape, from which it is almost certainly safe to infer that the ratio between jury convictions and acquittals returned after due deliberation (not judge - directed) will be broadly the same for serious violence generally and for rape.

When that concern emerges, we then speculate as to whether the error is likely to have adversely affected the deliberations of the jury and, if so, we conclude that the entire trial is vitiated and that we must start again.

As long ago as 1982, the Law Reform Commission of Canada recommended that section 649 be amended to allow for scholarly research of jury deliberationAs long ago as 1982, the Law Reform Commission of Canada recommended that section 649 be amended to allow for scholarly research of jury deliberationas 1982, the Law Reform Commission of Canada recommended that section 649 be amended to allow for scholarly research of jury deliberations.

This will only happen on or after May 29 as the judge had already indicated that the trial would take a break until then if the jury had not come down with a verdict by the close of yesterday's deliberations.