Sentences with phrase «between judge and jury»

To try to bring more consistency between judge and jury awards, the courts decided that in jury cases a judge should give guidance to the jury, suggesting an award for loss of society within an appropriate range of figures.

There is not one shred of doubt, however, about the Framers» paradigm for criminal justice: not the civil - law ideal of administrative perfection, but the common - law ideal of limited state power accomplished by strict division of authority between judge and jury.

Not exact matches

Another judge, Joan Madden, consolidated unrelated asbestos cases, which resulted in huge increases in jury verdicts — from an average of $ 7 million to $ 24 million per plaintiff between 2010 and 2014, data collected by Bates White Economic Consulting show.

Note that there is no relationship (at least legally) between the death penalty and use of weapons by police force; even in countries with death penalty police follows the same Rules of Engagement (use weapon as self - defense or when other people are in danger), death penalty is stablished by a jury or judge (police is a law enforcement agency, sentences are issued by judges or juries)

Faced with a scientific controversy as complex as that now raging over cusum can lawyers, judges and juries be expected to decide between the scientific and the specious?

Palme d'Or Competition films by Michael Haneke, Hong Sangsoo, François Ozon, Naomi Kawase, Todd Haynes, and Lynne Ramsay promise to give critics and jury judges some high - quality films to choose between.

Winners were chosen by the Game Marketing Association's esteemed panel of judges and jury comprised of leading members of the games industry, from top games publishers, developers and PR & Marketing agencies for all promotional campaigns released or aired between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2015.

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What this means to the modern practitioner is that all players in the game (attorneys, clients, judges and juries), now share the same understanding and appreciation of not only the meaning of the term legal malpractice, but its role in maintaining the balance between the attorney's prerogatives in selecting strategy and tactics and the clients» right to competent, ethical representation.

[3] Another way to increase similarity between your litigation team and the jury is to mirror body language by subtly matching the judge's or jurors» postures and gestures to make them feel more at ease and positive about you because you seem more like them.

Would any sane lawyer expect a judge (or jury) to do anything but agree that if the document in question is an agreement between the parties, and was signed prior to the agreement in question, it falls into the «prior agreements» category?

Between the early 1960s and late 1980s, the conviction rates for judge and jury was roughly the same; the 20 years before that, judges actually convicted much more often than juries.

On your more general point (realism of court - room dramas) the most striking difference between TV and real life (from my single experience) was that the entire court process was far more geared around the jury than is (usually) depicted on TV: witnesses are directed to talk TO the jury (not to the barristers or judge); we were encouraged to indicate to the judge if at any time we were uncertain, or «uncomfortable» for any reason (e.g. because of the nature of the evidence, or simply if we needed the toilet).

The Sacks panel held that a trial judge should not use the word «necessary» in explaining the meaning of the but - for test to a jury, because all the but - for test requires is a «real and substantial connection» between the negligence and the injury.

They further submitted that the judge had failed adequately to direct the jury as to the necessary connection between the articles in their possession and the alleged acts of terrorism.

The final portion of this opinion that a three - judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued today contains an interesting discussion of the potential for overlap between a jury's award of damages for emotional distress and what a jury might have awarded had it been advised (as it should have been but was not at the original trial) that an award of punitive damages in favor of the plaintiff was appropriate.

Again, judges and juries were in general agreement as to the appropriate verdict, and complexity of the trial did not differentiate between judges» and juries» preferred outcomes.

This common situation invariably creates a significant gap in communication between the lawyer and the judge and jury.

Answering this question inevitably requires the judge to engage in a limited weighing of the evidence because, with circumstantial evidence, there is, by definition, an inferential gap between the evidence and the matter to be established — that is, an inferential gap beyond the question of whether the evidence should be believed... The judge must therefore weigh the evidence, in the sense of assessing whether it is reasonably capable of supporting the inferences that the Crown asks the jury to draw.

In ICBC injury claims judges and juries are often asked to pick between competing medical opinion evidence.

Rodriguez had a chilling effect and pressured undocumented injured plaintiffs in a personal injury lawsuit from choosing between (a) revealing their immigration status in a public trial and being subjected to deportation proceedings (b) revealing their immigration status and having the jury scrutinize and judge their legal status in the United States, or (c) not reveal their immigration status and drop their lost future earnings no matter how high the damage.

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.

Do the available official statistics allow us to compare the conviction / acquittal rate between rape trials and trials for the generality of offences where juries have actually deliberated and given verdicts of their own, that is excluding directed acquittals after the judge has made a decision to stop the case?

The trial judge's comment that most cases fall into the lower end of the range, that is between 5 percent and 10 percent is useful additional guidance for the jury.

At the very least, it can create distance between the trial team and the judge or jury, just at the moment when the team should be building rapport.

Between now and when you have been discharged from jury duty by the judge, you must not provide or receive any information about your jury service to anyone, including friends, co-workers, and family members.

In doing so, Erickson opens a window onto a world where judges» and juries» responses to the most intimate or violent acts were coloured by a desire to shore up the liberal economic order by maintaining boundaries between men and women, Native people and newcomers, and capital and labour.

But the Judge is often only setting out legal alternatives: he is telling the jury what the prosecutor must prove, since certain differences do exist between - for instance - what amounts to murder, and what does not but might nevertheless amount to manslaughter (in the USA, termed 2nd - degree murder).

As Lord Chief Justice Mansfield put it in 1784: «It is the duty of the judge, in all cases of general justice, to tell the jury how to do right, though they have it in their power to do wrong, which is a matter entirely between God and their own consciences.»

Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, representing the Obama administration, insisted in his brief that the Supreme Court made clear in the 2009 Iceruling that judges must consider the historical role of the jury in deciding how to draw a line between the role of judges and juries.