Sentences with phrase «decisions of jurors»

Do these beliefs surrounding rape influence the decisions of jurors?

In applying for this craft fair, craftspeople and artists understand that the decision of the jurors is final.

All decisions of the Juror are final.

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Nor did she meet with incredulity the jurors» decision to convict Black on three counts of fraud, and one of obstruction of justice — however fervently Black may have desired it.

Superior Court Judge Gary Gavenus made the decision after a member of the jury handed out three documents to fellow jurors including North Carolina case law, according to the AP.

The appeals court said Judge Valerie E. Caproni's instructions to jurors in 2015 did not comply with a later U.S. Supreme Court decision that narrowed the acts required to convict public officials in a quid pro quo bribery scheme to formal exercises of government power, not just meetings or telephone calls.

In its decision regarding Silver's case, the appeals court ruled in 2017 that the definition of official corruption provided to the jurors differed from the one used by the U.S. Supreme Court when it overturned the corruption conviction of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, and so it was possible the jury could have ruled differently had it been instructed on the updated definition of the law.

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.»

Judge Caproni, in her decision, did not say she thought Silver's case was closely related to McDonnell's, but did concede that the way jurors were told to define «official acts» in corruption cases could be questioned by a higher court, in light of the McDonnell case.

Outside the courthouse, the jury foreperson told reporters those requests because jurors wanted to «make sure of our decisions.»

A decision to end the proceedings will largely depend on the schedules of the 15 jurors, said Judge Kenneth Karas.

The decision rests largely on the summer schedule of 15 jurors.

The appeals court said that the trial judge would need to instruct jurors on the law in a different manner to conform with a 2016 Supreme Court decision that reversed the public corruption conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

The appeals court said the trial judge would need to instruct jurors on the law differently to conform with a 2016 Supreme Court decision reversing the public corruption conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

The goal of all of these efforts is to improve the fairness and effectiveness of the criminal justice system — not only by distinguishing between appropriate and inappropriate uses of neuroscientific evidence, but also by using neuroscientific techniques to enrich understanding of the decisions and behavior of defendants, judges and jurors.

Arbitration puts the final decision in the hands of one person, who likely is more experienced and sophisticated about the law than six jurors in a courtroom.

Every year; the jurors change; we invite different professionals to make those decisions, so the dynamic of the program, by virtue of its constructs, changes on an annual basis.

The members made their final decision based on the exhibitions of their work, on display in the Hudgens Center Galleries, and studio visits by the jurors in the days leading up to the announcement.

Artists will be notified of juror decisions on October 25th by e-mail.

The jurors wrote in their decision, «Butterly's voluptuous ceramic objects explode traditional conceptions of earthenware art through careful manipulation of the medium, resulting in unconventional forms, colors and surfaces.

The number of artists selected depends upon the juror's decision.

No matter what type of trial or what amount of evidence is presented at trial, jurors are never satisfied with the amount of evidence that they must rely upon to make a decision.

As the federal government moves to limit judicial discretion in the sentencing of violent crimes, a recent decision from the British Columbia Court of Appeal has reasserted the court's authority, ruling that jurors in murder trials need not be unanimous in their sentencing recommendation to the court.

«In cases like these, where Ronnie Chang will face a jury of his peers, jurors may be faced with decisions about unjust laws.

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.

After a hearing on the motion, the trial judge concluded that the introduction of the information about Flynn's searches impacted the jurors» decision as to whether the product was defective and whether Takata had notice of any defects.

The judge's decision to dismiss the juror because of B.O. was OK, the court said.

He initially called the court, as well as social services, but was informed that the decision to provide counselling to jurors is at the discretion of the trial judge, and if it not ordered, jurors have to seek and pay for it on their own.

In his decision, Superior Court Judge Thomas F. McGuire, Jr., found that one juror during Jones» 1986 trial was «racially biased» and that the lead Brockton, Mass. police detective assigned to the investigation testified falsely as to the circumstances under which a key piece of evidence for the prosecution - a videotaped interview of an eyewitness - was altered before trial.

If this explanation of the juror's ethical duties is right, however, it leads to the question of whether we structure the process of jury decision - making in a way that encourages jurors to act ethically.

In a decision released yesterday, HM Attorney General v Davey [2013] EWHC 2317 (Admin), the High Court of England and Wales gave leave for applications for committal orders for contempt of court against two men, each of whom had sat as a juror in a criminal case and each of whom had used the internet in contravention of instructions not to do so.

Had he actually given any potential jurors a copy of his circular, or did anything to impede a jury, the decision implies that he might have been convicted.

That way, the group of jurors make the decision, not any one or any subgroup of people.

And it doesn't matter whether the reviewing court rather than the trial court makes this finding.The crux of the decision lies in the fact that «the State failed to prove its case as a matter of law, not merely because [the judge], as a 13th juror, would have decided it differently from the other 12 jurors.»

Judges evidenced less use of hindsight than jurors when making their decisions (i.e., less «Monday morning quarterbacking»).

Bimonthly newsletter published by the American Society of Trial Consultants (ASTC) with articles on jurors, juries, jury selection, juror decision - making, witness preparation, and all matters related to improving litigation advocacy and understanding jury behavior.

After the decision is made, jurors who voted incoherently with the rest are penalized by the loss of the PNK used as deposit.

(1) A person commits jury - tampering if, with intent to influence a juror's vote, opinion, decision, or other action in a case, he attempts directly or indirectly to communicate with a juror other than as a part of the proceedings in the trial of the case.

This mythology finds its way into the decisions of the police regarding their «founded» / «unfounded» categorization, operates in the mind of the Crown when deciding whether or not to prosecute, influences a judge's or juror's perception of guilt or innocence of the accused and the «goodness» or «badness» of the victim, and finally, has carved out a niche in both the evidentiary and substantive law governing the trial of the matter.

If that fresh evidence had existed at the time of Ms. Oakes» trial, and was presented to the jurors, we conclude that there is a reasonable possibility that the jury would have found that the admitted inconsistencies, lies and self - interest in Ms. Scott's testimony left them a reasonable doubt that her identification of Ms. Oakes as the murderer was reliable... [D] eference to the decision of the trier of fact can not play a significant role where that trier of fact was not in possession of critical information when it decided to convict.»

This month, for instance, in an unpublished decision, the Virginia Court of Appeals underlined that judges and jurors have practically boundless discretion to sentence defendants right up to the maximum incarceration allowed by statute, and quoted the Virginia Supreme Court from 2016 on the matter as follows:

The 15th page of the 19 - page decision noted that Lewie's attorney, Matthew Hug, argued the trial judge erred by not removing a female juror who had sent an «odd and inappropriate» note during deliberations.

37 It cited Wikipedia itself as to how it is «openly editable,» as well as a number of federal court decisions «troubled by Wikipedia's lack of reliability» and ultimately concluded the government could not show there was «no reasonable possibility» that the jury's verdict was not impacted by the internet research.38 At least one federal court has followed Lawson to set aside another jury verdict based on a juror's research on the IRS website, which, although equally beyond the scope of the evidence at trial, is undoubtedly more reliable than a website like Wikipedia.39

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.

It is extremely important to our democratic society that jurors as representatives of their community may make the decision as to the guilt or innocence of the accused before the court based solely on the evidence presented to them.

On Feb. 22, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision regarding the «demeanor - based» rejection of a potential juror in a death penalty case.

The jury gets a chance to deliberate after the case has been presented, and it's very easy for other jurors in the deliberation room to point out they're ignoring that piece of information and not let it influence the final decision.

Nullification is the right juries have to return an acquittal even in the face of overwhelming evidence of guilt simply because the jurors don't think that law should exist (they refuse to follow (i.e. nullify) the law with their decision).

That price covers paid participants that are a representative sample of possible jurors in your venue, two hours of mock jury time, and four hours with one of Decision Quest's jury consultants.

And their case — which lawyers have said would be the first copyright decision of its kind for possible overturning on appeal — appears now to rest on the crucial issue of what U.S. District Judge John A. Kronstadt allowed jurors to consider: recorded versions of Gaye's work or the «deposit copy» or «lead sheet,» the bare - bones description of the tune on which the family holds its copyright.