Sentences with phrase «court jury found»

A Maryland state court jury found that the defendant's advertising practices constituted racial discrimination under the Fair Housing Act, and awarded over $ 2 million in compensatory and punitive damages.

WINSTON - SALEM, N.C. — A Forsyth County Superior Court jury found that two real estate salespeople didn't know that up to 100 bats were hanging around in the house they sold to an unsuspecting buyer last March.

A County Court jury found two Rockland men not guilty yesterday of attempting to burglarize a Spring Valley house in April.

An Ontario Superior Court jury found the man, 28, and his co-accused brother, 32, not guilty of trafficking the cocaine, although they found the older brother guilty on several other counts.

The Suffolk County Superior Court jury found a physician and nurse practitioner negligent in the infant's death who died of necrotizing enterocolitis.

A Brooklyn federal court jury found him guilty on three of the eight indictment charges Friday afternoon.

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While there were dissenters, the Supreme Court found that Skilling's negative publicity didn't prevent him from receiving a fair trial — especially because Houston was the fourth - most - populous city in the country, allowing for a large jury pool.

Biotechnology entrepreneur William Ardrey faces a retrial on fraud charges after Western Australia's Court of Appeal found the jury had been misdirected in the original court Court of Appeal found the jury had been misdirected in the original court court case.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York also rejected an appeal by MP3tunes founder Michael Robertson, who was ordered to pay $ 12.2 million after a federal jury in 2014 found him liable for copyright infringement.

«A criminal defendant, we hold, need not request special interrogatories, nor need he acquiesce in the Government's request for discrete findings by the jury, in order to preserve in full a timely - raised objection to jury instructions,» Justice J. Ginsburg wrote in her explanation of the court's decision.

Even if a jury finds that Uber stole Waymo trade secrets, Uber says in court filings that its engineers have designed around the Waymo technology at issue in the case.

In returning its verdict Thursday afternoon on the sixth day of deliberations, the Superior Court jury also pronounced Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty of assault with a firearm, finding credence in defense attorneys» argument that the shot that ricocheted off the concrete ground before piercing Steinle's heart was an accident, with the gun discharging after the defendant stumbled upon it on the waterfront on July 1, 2015.

A suspended Coconut Creek police officer won his first round in court late Monday when a Broward jury found him not guilty of molesting an aspiring cop during a supposed training exercise two years ago.

A federal jury found him guilty in 2010, but an appeals court reversed his conviction, ruling that prosecutors misapplied the federal corporate espionage laws against him.

A former U.S. Army sergeant and two other U.S. citizens were found guilty by a jury in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday of taking part in a plot to murder a woman in the Philippines for money, prosecutors said.

On Friday, August 4, 2017, a federal court jury in Brooklyn, New York, found Martin Shkreli, former CEO of biopharmaceutical company Retrophin, guilty on three of eight counts of securities fraud.

The Delaware court found that a jury not only must decide whether there were «aggravating circumstances» that could justify a death penalty, but also must find, «unanimously and beyond a reasonable doubt,» that such aggravating factors outweigh any mitigating circumstances — the critical determination in imposing a death sentence.

A jury having been waived, the lower court, Eastern District of Louisiana, found that the word «Tabasco,» as applied to pepper sauce, was generic and indicated quality, ingredients and place of origin of the pepper from which it was made and rendered judgment in favor of plaintiff for damages.

He had gone to jail on March 16, 1985, the day a jury of nine women and three men in U.S. District Court in Tampa found him guilty of racketeering, conspiracy to commit racketeering (including loan - sharking), extortion and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute it.

As a result, the district court concluded there was not enough evidence for a reasonable jury to find that the employer had violated the FLSA's breastfeeding breaks requirement.

Britain's first black Tory peer was found guilty of fraudulently claiming # 11,277 in parliamentary expenses by a jury at Southwark Crown Court, which found him guilty by an 11 - 1 majority verdict.

Following his 11 - day trial in Queens Criminal Court, the jury found Wills guilty of one count of a scheme to defraud, two counts of grand larceny and two counts of filing a false instrument.

Prosecutors immediately said they would pursue a retrial after the Second Circuit ruling, but Silver asked the Supreme Court to intervene and prohibit any retrial on the grounds that the government produced insufficient evidence for a properly instructed jury to find him guilty.

On appeal, the Second Circuit found that the jury instructions were too broad, permitting the juries to convict the defendants of corruption charges on a theory that fell outside the definition of «official act,» which the Supreme Court had provided in McDonnell.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that there was sufficient evidence to convict the veteran legislator in two corruption schemes, but jury instructions didn't comply with a new Supreme Court decision narrowing the type of acts required of public officials in a quid - pro-quo bribery scheme to formal exercises of government power.

«The dramatic disparity gives rise to an unacceptably high, «meaningful» risk that the jury could find Linda Mangano guilty merely by association, «she argued in court papers.

«Although finding that the Supreme Court's McDonnell decision issued after Silver's conviction required a different legal instruction to the jury, the Second Circuit also held that the evidence presented at the trial was sufficient to prove all the crimes charged against Silver, even under the new legal standard.»

The conviction was vacated on appeal, however, in part due to instructions given to the jury that were found to be incompatible with a Supreme Court ruling on the theft of honest services charges.

The court, presided over by Mrs Justice Merley Afua Wood, passed the death sentence last Wednesday after a seven - member jury unanimously found Frimpong guilty on two counts of murder.

«Although finding that the Supreme Court's McDonnell decision issued after Silver's conviction required a different legal instruction to the jury, the Second Circuit also held that the evidence presented at the trial was sufficient to prove all the crimes charged against Silver, even under the new legal standard,» Kim's statement reads, in part.

Today, Silver was found guilty by a jury of seven counts in federal court related to corruption charges.

In reversing McDonnell's conviction, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court found that instructions to the trial jury about what defines a public official's «official acts» were so broad that they could include almost any action an official might take while in office.

Ethel Shelton wept as the jury in her public corruption trial found her guilty Monday in Hammond's federal court.

The appeals court found that the trial judge's jury instructions should have included that definition.

A U.S. District Court jury in Manhattan found the former aide, Joseph Percoco, guilty of three felonies on Tuesday, culminating a seven - week public corruption trial.

NEW HAVEN — Former Gov. John G. Rowland, a political rising star who crashed a decade ago in a corruption scandal, fell again Friday when a jury in federal court found him guilty in a low - rent scheme to collect secret paychecks from rich Republican congressional candidates.

The appellate judges in Silver's case found that, under the Supreme Court's ruling, the instructions given to the jury at Silver's trial were improper and prejudicial.

Dean and Adam Skelos leave federal court in Manhattan after a jury found them both guilty in their corruption case on Dec. 11, 2015.

The state Court of Appeals in a ruling Thursday found judges will now be required to instruct juries that witness identifications of suspects of a different race is less reliable than when people make IDs from their own race.

The SC is not a trial court but an appellate one and should never constitute itself into a prosecutor, judge and jury and sit in its own cause as if it is the Chief's Palace where the accused is hauled before the Chief and his elders, tried, found guilty and ordered to present seventy - two rams and seventy - two bottles of schnapps to pacify the gods and ancestors in a constitutional democracy.

A jury found the 51 - year - old guilty of obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI about illegally skimming more than $ 400,000 from foreclosure deals he worked on as a court - appointed referee.

Former Republican state Senate leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, leave federal court in Foley Square in Manhattan after a jury found them both guilty of corruption on Dec. 11, 2015.

But last month, the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the convictions, ruling that jury instructions hadn't reflected a later U.S. Supreme Court finding that narrowed federal corruption laws, requiring officials to exercise power instead of just make a phone call or set up a meeting.

Buffalo developer Louis Ciminelli, head of one of the state's largest construction contractors, and two other company executives charged in state contracts bid - rigging case could find themselves facing a grand jury indictment before their next court appearance on Oct. 24.

He is already serving life without parole because of a Niagara County Court conviction for the murders, but he and Pirk face mandatory federal sentences of life without parole for the murders because the jury found they were part of a racketeering conspiracy.

But in the jury instructions, the judge's explanation of an official action was too broad, the appeals court found, because it swept in some conduct that the Supreme Court's decision would now exccourt found, because it swept in some conduct that the Supreme Court's decision would now excCourt's decision would now exclude.

After eight days of strained deliberations, the jury in Federal District Court in Manhattan delivered a split verdict: It found Mr. Percoco not guilty of extortion and conspiracy to commit extortion, but appeared to find fault with his dealings on behalf of Competitive Power Ventures, a Maryland - based power company.

«Although finding that the Supreme Court's McDonnell decision issued after Silver's conviction required a different legal instruction to the jury, the Second Circuit also held that the evidence presented at the trial was sufficient to prove all the crimes charged against Silver, even under the new legal standard,» Kim's statement said.

Ciminelli, head of one of the state's largest construction contractors, and two other company executives charged in the case could find themselves facing a grand jury indictment before their next court appearance on Oct. 24.

The three - judge panel pointed to a 2016 United States Supreme Court ruling on Republican governor of Virginia Bob McDonnell that used a more narrow definition of what constitutes an «official act» under the public corruption statute, ruling that a jury instructed on that definition may not have found Silver guilty.