Sentences with phrase «by jurors raises»

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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!»

At the hearing on Friday, the defense raised concerns that some prospective jurors had been swayed by what they had heard about the case, which has received extensive coverage in the news media.

Almost three years after the bidding, and after a trial in which jurors were not allowed to consider the fact that the Obama administration invalidated the entire leasing process in which DeChristopher took part or that he did in fact raise the money needed to pay for his bids in full, Tim was convicted of two felonies, for which he is now serving two years in jail and issued a $ 10,000 fine, followed by three years of supervised probation.

This raises several interesting legal issues, and perhaps most importantly: is a ruling by a group of anonymous jurors assembled online to rule on the disputed outcome of a smart contract, legally compliant and legally binding?

... the district court erred in dismissing a juror, based largely on its finding that the juror was purposefully disregarding the court's instructions on the law, where the record evidence raised the possibility that the juror's view on the merits of the case was motivated by doubts about the defendants» guilt, rather than by an intent to nullify the law.

A growing number of recent decisions in courts across the globe have commented on the concerns raised by the explosion in social media use by jurors in trials.