Sentences with phrase «delivered guilty verdicts»

LIMÓN — A Limón court delivered guilty verdicts for four of seven defendants in the 2013 killing of sea turtle conservationist Jairo Mora and the kidnapping and robbery of four foreign volunteers.

Refusal to deliver a Guilty verdict when jurors are aware that the law has technically been broken is known as jury nullification.

Whether a jury would deliver a guilty verdict is another matter.

Not exact matches

And thus THAT is how Zimmerman not only survived the ordeal, but was delivered a Not Guilty verdict to continue on with his life.

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, who acted as the special prosecutor in Sen. Kevin Parker's assault case, released a statement in the wake of the Brooklyn Democrat's conviction on two misdemeanor charges, saying he respects the jury's decision despite the fact that it did not deliver a felony guilty verdict.

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.

However, 23 year - old Justin Haffa was found guilty on a lesser charge of 3rd degree robbery by a jury in Chautauqua County Court, which delivered its verdict on Wednesday afternoon.

Delivered with great speed, the unanimous not guilty verdict was a defining moment.

I don't think any of us were aware of a concept that entitled us to deliver a verdict of not - guilty if we had concluded that the accused was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

Yesterday, a jury unanimously stood in defense of juror educators» right to share general education information about jury nullification and the Fully Informed Jury Association on Facebook, in delivering a Not Guilty verdict in the case of Luke Lamb.

Two months of ongoing criticism of the guilty verdict that sent Dennis Oland to prison — and of the character and motives of jury members who delivered it — is raising questions about rules in Canada that gag jurors after a trial, says Toronto lawyer Allan Rouben.

Howe also says the jury that found him guilty of sexual assault would «definitely» have delivered a different verdict had there been at least a handful of black Nova Scotians on the panel.