Sentences with phrase «court reaches a verdict»

But in terms of football, I do not understand why, and from a legal point of view, I have not had a trial, I am not guilty, we will have to wait until the court reaches a verdict.

Not exact matches

Ausdrill managing director Ron Sayers has been discharged from the Supreme Court today after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on tax evasion charges against him and former Barminco boss, Peter Bartlett, for the second time.

Ausdrill managing director Ron Sayers has been discharged from the Supreme Court today after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on tax evasion charges against himself and former Barminco boss Peter Bartlett — for the second time.

Kuhlmann's impression, he said, was that courts tended to rule on the privilege in the direction of the verdict the court thought ought to be reached.

«It is not clear beyond a reasonable doubt that a rational jury would have reached the same conclusion if properly instructed, as is required by the law for the verdict to stand,» Jose Cabranes of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision said in his decision.

In Thursday's ruling, the appellate court ruled the judge's erroneous instruction to the jury at Silver's trial «was not harmless because it is not clear beyond a reasonable doubt that a rational jury would have reached the same conclusion if properly instructed, as is required by law for the verdict to stand.»

«After considering the facts and the evidence with open minds, and using your instructions as a roadmap, We remain unable to reach a unanimous verdict,» read the note, which was sent at 9:35 a.m., 20 minutes after jurors arrived in Manhattan Federal Court.

The jury in Federal District Court in Manhattan took two days to reach its verdict against Mr. Skelos, and his son, Adam, finding them guilty of all eight bribery, extortion and conspiracy counts.

I'm officially done with Jury Duty after nine days in court as we reached a verdict yesterday afternoon.

Courts have yet to reach a final verdict on teacher tenure and seniority rights, but the court of public opinion has already made a clear determination.

The only factual part of that synopsis is that Nintendo sued Hacker, but it wasn't for anything related to publishing unlicensed FC porn games and it was settled out of court before a verdict was reached.

Since most of the justification for the EPA ruling is based on the predictions of AGW, it will be interesting to see how the court rules, if it indeed comes to trial and a verdict is reached.

You know you can get a patent on just about anything if you word it right, but it isn't a patent until a court of law has upheld it and it's not enforcable by the owner of the patent until such a verdict has been reached.

As well there is the dogmatic insistence that the climategate emails must be investigated until a guilty verdict is reached, even though, at least in the country I live in, that kind of evidence is inadmissible in court.

Once the jury has reached a decision, they convene in court again with all parties assembled so the verdict of the case can be read.

If the jury can not reach a verdict, the court will declare a mistrial, which is sometimes called a «hung jury.»

Once a settlement is agreed upon or a verdict is reached, the advanced court costs will be repaid from the recovery.

Because of how the principle of judicial independence is interpreted by courts, the original trial judge in this case could not be asked why it had taken 9 months to reach a verdict, and could not be questioned whether the delay was due to the complexity of the case, the judge's workload, or other personal reasons, such as illness.

An appeal is most simply a request for a higher court to review the decision of a lower court and overturn the outcome by either ordering a new trial or substituting the verdict that should have been reached.

Profits at the state's largest medical malpractice insurance carrier reached a record $ 57 million in 2012, two years after the Illinois Supreme Court struck down a law capping damages in jury verdicts.

It's the stuff of science fiction: an artificial intelligence judges the merits of a court case and reaches a verdict.

Massey appealed, and the case reached the West Virginia Supreme Court, where Justice Brent Benjamin cast the deciding vote in a 3 - 2 majority ruling to set aside the verdict.

Trial court abused its discretion by concluding that newly discovered evidence of close relationship between prosecution witness and gang prostitute failed to show that jury would have reached a different verdict.

Legal Compensation Though Stevens — Johnson syndrome is rare, individuals who had been diagnosed with the disease have reached successful verdicts in courts against pharmaceutical companies.

The jury must reach its verdict by considering only the evidence introduced in court and the directions of the judge.

In reaching its verdict, the Court indicated that the costs incurred by the insured without prior authorisation of the insurer, corresponded to an urgent need to defend itself and, therefore, coverage could not be denied for that reason.

The jury deliberated nearly five days before reaching its verdict after the three - week trial in Norfolk County Superior Court.

There is a well - established procedure in the federal courts of the United States, and similar structures in all state systems I'm familiar with, that allows the judge to overrule a civil jury if it finds that no reasonable jury could have reached the verdict they did.

A jury verdict in a civil trial will be set aside only if it is so plainly unreasonable and unjust as to satisfy the court that no jury reviewing the evidence as a whole and acting judicially could have reached it.

We will see when this case reaches its ultimate conclusion — whether that be a pretrial settlement, a jury verdict, or an appeals court decision.

Sometimes the courts take longer than expected to reach a verdict, depending on how busy they are.