Sentences with phrase «by jurors who»

Your personal injury case will likely be decided by jurors who have lived in the city or county for at least the last six months.

Jurors who voted coherently with the rest are rewarded with the PNK lost by jurors who voted incoherently.

The $ 10,000 - Award will be given to each of the individual artists by the jurors who have selected them: Joan Jonas selected by Tom Healy Mel Kendrick selected by Brice Marden Helen Levitt elected by Arthur and Carol Goldberg Sylvia Plimack Mangold selected by Rhona Hoffman Sturtevant selected by Kim Levin The awards were launched and have been presented seven times since its inception in 1986 by Francis J. Greenburger, a New York real estate developer, who is the founder and chairman of Omi International Arts Center, a residency program for artists, writers, musicians and dancers, and the Fields Sculpture Park in Columbia County, New York.

Not exact matches

«Virtually half» of jurors who participated in the Capital Jury Project, funded by the National Science Foundation, reported they knew the punishment they would give before the trial even began.

He said that for the retrial, the defense focused less on mental health records and experts and more on getting jurors to see into the mind of the woman who Parnham said drowned her children because she thought that if she didn't they would be taken by Satan.

Despite the lengthy deliberations, jurors said they did not feel pressured by the judge to arrive at a verdict, and they were not influenced by unusual distractions, ranging from the length of deliberations to Leitza's departure to attend the wedding to the highly visible and vocal group of midwife advocates who attended the trial.

The judge had earlier been asked to discharge the jury by Coulson's lawyer, who said Cameron's comments would have prejudiced jurors against his client.

Molo finished his three - hour summation by thanking the jurors and praising Silver's decision to fight the charges of a prosecutor who Molo said is «viewing the world through a dirty window.»

A crooked restaurateur who claims to have bribed Mayor de Blasio boosted his own ego by showering Hizzoner with campaign cash, a defense lawyer told jurors at a Long Island...

Absent the alternate, you may have eleven jurors for conviction or acquittal who are blocked from a decision by one missing juror.

A crooked restaurateur who claims to have bribed Mayor de Blasio boosted his own ego by showering Hizzoner with campaign cash, a defense lawyer told jurors at a Long Island corruption trial on Wednesday.

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.

The juror who wrote the first note has not been identified by the court, but the parties made references to her as a female member of the jury of eight women and four men.

Defense lawyers and jurors have vigorously questioned a strategy by the New York Police Department that prizes the pursuit of the addicts who use drugs over the people who supply them.

Lawyers for Bridget Anne Kelly, the former Christie aide accused of scheming to snarl traffic in the Bridgegate scandal as political payback, want to paint a picture of her for jurors as a hard - working single mom being hung out to dry by the former Port Authority exec who actually masterminded the plot.

Most jurors didn't speak after the verdict, but Arleen Phillips, 53, of Mount Vernon, said she was the lone juror who initially thought Silver was not guilty but was eventually swayed by Silver's failure to fully reveal his law - firm referral money on state disclosure forms.

Other witnesses on Monday included former Assistant Attorney General Richard Rodgers, who told jurors about reforms instituted in 2007 by then - Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, now, of course, the governor.

But it seems likely to revisit the arguments made in the earlier motion for acquittal, along with issues that arose afterward, including one involving a juror who complained to the judge that she was being pressured by other jurors.

Daniel C. Richman, a former federal prosecutor in Manhattan who is now a law professor at Columbia University, said, «I suppose the claim would be that by not directly addressing the concerns the juror expressed in the notes, the court left room for her to feel unduly coerced by other jurors.»

In the selection process, ten films nominated by IDFA programmers were viewed by AWFJ EDA Award jurors, who then selected three finalists for their final round of voting.

Chastain, who served as a Cannes juror last year, was disheartened by the female representations in the films she screened.

«Anyone who has ever worked as a director knows what it took to make this film,» we noted in our statement (delivered by juror and Oscar winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams, director of God Loves Uganda and Music By Prudenceby juror and Oscar winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams, director of God Loves Uganda and Music By PrudenceBy Prudence).

What's assumed to be a cut - and - dried conviction is contested by Henry Fonda, who isn't convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt, and slowly works through the evidence to pull the other jurors one by one to his side.

For two hundred pages, Sanders has been surreptitiously empaneling readers as jurors for the coming trial, who by then, can't beg to be excused from bearing witness to the final act in the courtroom: «In a building filled with horrors enacted by one human upon another, this courtroom was about to go well beyond the norm, beyond what most people are brave enough to imagine, let alone recount.»

The awards were decided by a panel of expert jurors, who whittled over 200 entries down to just 73 nominees.

And then on Fire Island, those decisions are made by our jurors; who choose the five artists to come out every year.

According to information provided by Cultural DC at the zoning hearing, a selection panel of five to seven jurors comprised of «artists, community members, [and] local business owners» appointed by Cultural DC, will determine who has access the proposed 2,300 square foot studio spaces which represents a 96 % reduction in the existing workspace at Union Arts.

Selections will be made by Fusion Art owners Chris and Valerie Hoffman, and / or invited guest jurors who are prominent in the art world, including other artists and art professionals.

The jurors were selected by SPACE's Visual Arts Programmer, Elizabeth Spavento, who administers the Kindling Fund in order to reflect voices with national, New England, and local connections.

This is the museum's third iteration of an exhibition that features works by seven distinguished artists who serve as jurors, alongside works by fourteen local artists selected by the jurors.

Of some two dozen pieces selected by juror Lisa Dent, who is director of resources and award programs for the Creative Capital Foundation in New York, just one is a traditional painting on canvas.

Juror Helen Frederick, who is an internationally known artist with a wealth of experience in the contemporary print world, carefully reviewed the images and information submitted by each artist and noted, «It was a joy to discover artists in many points of their careers submitting works with the inclusion of passionate statements regarding their thematic concepts.»

Work will be reviewed by three jurors who are not affiliated with the WAAM.

Viewing the show, I was not only surprised and delighted by some of the pairings, but, after looking at the work of those who had been selected by the seven distinguished artists, I turned once again to the jurors» art.

Butterly was selected by an independent panel of jurors who recognized Butterly as «an inventive and independent sculptor whose work reflects the fading boundary between craft and contemporary art.»

Chosen by a distinguished independent panel of jurors, the $ 25000 prize annually recognizes an American artist under 50 who has demonstrated exceptional creativity and whose work is «emblematic of this period in contemporary art.»

Or perhaps by people who are openly contemptuous of the jurors.

As Ambrogi writes, a new Web site, TrialJuries, «will allow lawyers to submit their cases and have them «decided» by online jurors similar to those who would serve on an actual jury at trial.»

Judge Seated Juror Who Declared Defendant Guilty Before Trial Jose Felipe Velasco insists Orange County Judge David A. Hoffer cheated him out of a fair trial by placing a juror on the supposedly neutral citizen's panel after she repeatedly declared the defendant guilty before hearing any evidJuror Who Declared Defendant Guilty Before Trial Jose Felipe Velasco insists Orange County Judge David A. Hoffer cheated him out of a fair trial by placing a juror on the supposedly neutral citizen's panel after she repeatedly declared the defendant guilty before hearing any evidjuror on the supposedly neutral citizen's panel after she repeatedly declared the defendant guilty before hearing any evidence.

Jury instructions can drastically change the outcome of a case because jurors are laypeople who do not necessarily understand the law as it is explained to them by the judge.

In another case, it was a juror who fell foul of contempt of court laws by indicating that he would find the defendant guilty in a Facebook post which declared that he had «always wanted to f *** up a paedophile».

In its 5 - 4 decision in Philip Morris v. Mayola Williams, Justice Breyer, writing for the majority, held that the jury's verdict violated the Due Process clause of the Constitution because jurors had been permitted to consider harm suffered by other smokers, who weren't parties to the case, in assessing punitive damages.

Called TrialJuries, the site will allow lawyers to submit their cases and have them «decided» by online jurors similar to those who would serve on an actual jury at trial.

I just want the record to reflect, I guess, to be blunt, [the juror], for whatever reason, had some very bad, I guess to be blunt again, body odor, which was extremely strong, and I was able to detect in my lobby, as was the clerk, which is a personal matter for that potential juror, but for the fact that her personal problem was [of] such a magnitude that other jurors who had already been picked... either by act or words had indicated discomfort with that problem.

The article describes the nightmares experienced by one of the jurors after hearing testimony — and seeing photos — in the trial of two men who tortured and killed a woman and her two daughters after a home invasion.

Attorneys John Bergendahl and Bruce Zimet, whose clients were convicted of defrauding the US and financial institutions in a federal mortgage scheme that ran more than five years, filed the retrial motion partly because a number of prospective jurors were allegedly turned back from the federal courthouse in Orlando, Florida by the guards, who are U.S. marshals, for failing to meet the standards of that court's juror dress code.

Thats a given, but think its overdue to include the perspective of those who have to act as jurors, and work through the evidence presented, and the directions given by the Judge.

On one hand, Andrew Fastow — who served up his wife as a sacrifical lamb for his embezzlement of millions from Enron that triggered one of the largest bankruptcy cases in U.S. history, who used the NatWest Three to hide his embezzlement of millions more and then turned on the U.K. bankers to save his skin, who very well may have forged Richard Causey's initials on the Global Galatic «agreement,» whose bizarre testimony during the Lay - Skilling trial was largely discounted by jurors and who had a large hand in ruining the careers of four innocent Merrill Lynch executives in order to lessen his prison sentence — is sentenced to six years in prison.

In the Stanley case, all members of the jury were white and the potential jurors who were indigenous were blocked by the defence, using peremptory challenges.

There was the blogging juror who was turned in by a law professor.