Sentences with phrase «by other jurors»

Most judges find out about juror misuse of Net media from tattling by other jurors or lawyers (perhaps lawyers who feel they are losing the case?).

Alternatively, someone on the jury who is perceived by other jurors to have expertise seen as relevant to the case may emerge as the foreperson.

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.»

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.

Shortly after deliberations started Tuesday, a juror claimed in a note that she was being bullied by other jurors and asked to be relieved from the panel.

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.

Not exact matches

During the voir dire process the potential jurors come in and they're asked a series of questions by the parties and by the judge to determine whether each potential juror can be completely unbiased and impartial and objective, to make sure they're not biased towards one party or the other.

Other positive developments include a recent ruling by the Court of Appeal allowing trial judges to explain to jurors why a victim would have delayed reporting a rape to police, helping to alleviate the influence of the rape myth.

On Tuesday, in the first of four notes sent by jurors to U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni, one panel member asked to be excused, citing discomfort and a difference of opinion with the others.

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.

Mike Jarboe, an editor at the Times Union, was summoned to jury duty in Albany County and listened as other prospective jurors were questioned by Acting State Supreme Court Justice Dan Lamont in a drug trial.

The big prizes from the festival are the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award, one given by a select group of jurors and the other chosen by the festival attendees themselves.

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.

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.

Other Festival events include artist demonstrations, lectures, preview parties, and a workshop by event juror and nationally acclaimed plein air painter, Nancy Tankersley.

Also on view are artworks by EMERGE.LI members and other exhibition jurors.

Even if you can't or won't share your own list of those of the other jurors, it would at least be interesting to see a flat list of works that were mentioned by didn't make the cut - off.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2018 In (di) visible, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX; Cameron Museum of Art, Wilmington, NC 2017 Translatio Imperii, Gutterbox Gallery, Raleigh, NC Digiscapes, Curated by Anthony Hamilton, Lump, Raleigh, NC Art on Paper, Curated by Emily Stamey, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Objectifying Myself: Works by Women Artists from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT For Liberty and Justice for Some, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Shimmer, Light and Design Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC 2016 Seeping of a Ghost, Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia (solo) Musings on an Origin, Spectre Arts, Durham, NC Typecast, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC 2015 Heterotopias as Other, Nha San Collective, Hanoi, Vietnam (solo) 2014 The Orient, The Occident, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (solo) Summer Shuffle: Contemporary Art @ PAFA Remixed, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts The Mother Load, The Center for Creative Connections, Dallas Museum of Art, TX 2013 Contemporary Vietnamerican Art, Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VAThe Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA 2012 Alter / Altar: Meditations on the Past, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Art Center Collisions of Clamor and Calm, Galerie Quynh, HCMC, Vietnam Art HK 12, Hong Kong International Art Fair, with Galerie Quynh 2011 Bite Sized Monsters, Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA 2010 Twombly House / Ephemeral Museum, Portland, OR Outwin Boochever Portrait Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C 2009 Family Pictures, Root Division, San Francisco, CA 2008 In Transition Russia, Municipal Centre for Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia 2007 House of Adoration, Galerie Quynh Contemporary Art, HCMC, Vietnam (solo) House of Adoration, Ryllega Experimental Art Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam (solo) Small Works, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA 2006 Portrait of a Contemporary Family, First Street Gallery, Eureka, CA Portrait of a Family, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA National Juried Exhibition, Marin Art Center, Marin, CA Juror: Rene de Guzman Small Works Invitational, Gallery Dog, Eureka, CA Out of Context, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA Face Paint, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004 Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Supernatural, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Go West!

Juror Robbin Zella, is Director and Curator of the Housatonic Museum of Art in Bridgeport, CT, where, since 1998, she has organized over 80 exhibitions that have introduced audiences to works by Ansel Adams, Jenny Holzer, Sol Le Witt, Rembrandt, Andy Warhol, and Robert Rauchenberg, among others.

Chaired by Penelope Curtis, Director Tate Britain, the other jurors include, Katrina Brown, Director, The Common Guild, Glasgow; Vasif Kortun, Platform Garanti, Istanbul; Nadia Schneider, Director, Kunsthaus Glarus; and Godfrey Worsdale, Director, BALTIC.

We examined the use of social media by lawyers, judges, witnesses, jurors, friends and relatives of accused persons and others.

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.

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.

Lord Bingham maintained that while Parliament could not have intended that CPS lawyers should sit as jurors on cases brought by their own authority (even though Parliament chose not to state this expressly) there would be no objection to their sitting on cases prosecuted by other agencies — leaving CPS lawyers in the seemingly unique position of being theoretically eligible for jury service but in practice barred from sitting on the vast majority of cases brought in England and Wales, which is hardly a satisfactory state of affairs.

On the other hand, you should use your time to try to inoculate favorable jurors from attack by your opponent.

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».

Because yesterday, as reported by the Tex Parte blog, the court released proposed amendments to the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure that, among other things, would hammer home the point that the internets are no place for jurors to be hanging out.

The presumption of innocence; holding the government to its burden of producing real evidence; resolving every plausible doubt in favor of the person targeted by the government; the right to legal counsel of your choice; and other Constitutional laws protecting the accused must be respected and enforced by every juror and every person — in order to protect everyone's Liberty and Freedom from injustice.

Reports that sort by juror, party presenting, type of response, or chronologically can be saved for later review or emailed to others.

AB 69 Revises provisions governing the recycling of paper and paper products by courts; revises provisions governing the duties of court clerks and justices of the peace in relation to the fees charged by those officials; revises provisions governing the collection and reporting of certain statistical information; changes the term «county clerk» to «clerk of the court» in certain statutes; removes provisions requiring courts provide the Court Administrator certain orders relating to bail forfeitures; repeals provisions governing an offer of judgment; repeals the requirement that the Nevada Supreme Court decide an appeal from judgment imposing the death penalty within a certain period; repeals provisions governing the selection of panels of jurors by boards of county commissioners; revises various other provisions relating to court administration.

As jurors are often told, «We know the contents of other minds by the statements people make and the behavior they engage in.»

1 For attempts to measure the effect of advocacy quality through other means, see, e.g., Banks Miller et al., Leveling the Odds: The Effect of Quality Legal Representation in Cases of Asymmetrical Capability, 49 Law & Soc» y Rev. 209 (2015)(finding that high quality representation evened the odds for asylum applicants and that asylum seekers fared better when unrepresented than when represented by a poor lawyer); Mitchell J. Frank & Dr. Osvaldo F. Morera, Professionalism and Advocacy at Trial — Real Jurors Speak in Detail About the Performance of Their Advocates, 64 Baylor L. Rev. 1, 38 (2012)(finding statistically significant correlations in criminal cases between jurors» perceptions of closing argument persuasiveness and jury verdict, and finding statistically significant correlations in civil cases between perceptions of defense counsel's closing argument persuasiveness and defense verdict); James M. Anderson & Paul Heaton, How Much Difference Does the Lawyer Make?

(a) seek to influence a judge, juror, prospective juror or other official by means prohibited by law;

In U.S. v. Lawson, on the other hand, the federal Fourth Circuit addressed at length the reliability concerns presented by reliance on Wikipedia.32 The issue arose when, despite the trial court's explicit instruction not to conduct research on the internet or otherwise, a juror reviewed, during deliberations, a Wikipedia definition of an element of the crime with which the defendant was charged.33 The juror no longer had the original Wikipedia entry but obtained a printout two weeks later in anticipation of his appearance before the court on complaints of juror misconduct.

There have also been concerns about jurors doing online research, «visiting» a crime scene on Google Earth or following Twitter or blog feeds written by reporters or others during a trial.

«Although the issues at stake in this action involve the private rights of the litigants, the motion relief sought by the plaintiff involves much broader considerations that may impact the rights of other parties involved in motor vehicle accident cases as well as possibly the rights of citizens of Ontario to sit as jurors in those cases,» the judge wrote.

An extremely effective way to get your argument across to jurors or the judge on a case is by creating timelines, charts and maps with easy - to - use software programs such as PowerPoint or other comparable applications.

But in fact all it means is a juror refusing to apply a law based on considerations other than the law he's instructed in by the judge.

With the very narrow, newly created exception for guilty verdicts in criminal cases reached based upon racial or other kinds of impermissible prejudice rather than the facts of the case (or cases where there is an outside influence on the jury such as a bribe or someone looking up facts or law on the Internet), no one can challenge a jury verdict based upon the reasoning and conclusions actually made by the jurors, even if someone learns that the jury knowingly or accidentally didn't follow the law or was mistaken about the facts.

The legislation gives two reasons for allowing trial by judge alone: one is the burden on the jurors, the other is the complexity of the case.

Many of the judges gave objective bases for their favourable opinions about the juries» understanding of the issues (see box below)-- notably the questions asked by jurors or the fact that they discriminated between different defendants, convicting some, while acquitting others.

Harm to the administration of justice recognizes that there are other persons affected by ongoing and prolonged criminal proceedings: complainants, witnesses, jurors and society at large.

Other Internet searches by jurors?

Of the 632 jurors surveyed by reporters, 451 (71 per cent) were white; 45 (7 per cent) were Black; 42 (7 per cent) were brown; 89 (14 per cent) were Asian; and 5 (less than 1 per cent) were listed as other.