Sentences with phrase «first jury trials»

This case was one of the first jury trials ever to focus on claims of disparate impact discrimination.

Since this will be my first jury trial, I'm naturally terrified.

Winning my first jury trial.

This was the first jury trial under the False Claims Act in ten years since the Act was amended to make it easier for the government to prevail.

Since handling my first jury trial in Campbell County, Kentucky nearly two months after becoming licensed to do so, I have been privileged to handle matters in essentially every county in the Commonwealth.

Not exact matches

While they opened the trial by admitting Tsarnaev's role, he has maintained his not - guilty plea, leaving prosecutors to first convince the jury of his guilt before moving on to the question of whether he should be sentenced to death or to life in prison without possibility of parole.

And while the first phase of the trial was at times grueling for members of the jury - several breaking into tears as they listened to descriptions of the chaos near the Marathon finish line - the second phase could be even more so.

In Cosby's first trial last year, another jury had failed to agree on an outcome, teeing up the retrial that played out in Pennsylvania this month.

John had been indicted and tried for first - degree murder, but the trial resulted in a hung jury.

The most explicit statement of these limitations is in the Constitution's first ten amendments — the Bill of Rights — which guarantee freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition, the right to bear arms, protection against the obligatory quartering of soldiers, security from unwarranted search and seizure, the right to a grand jury, protection against double jeopardy and self - incrimination, the right of due process, just compensation for private property taken for public use, and speedy public trial by jury without excessive fines or bail.

U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni, openly frustrated by the pace of the trial's proceedings, said she plans on telling the jury first thing Thursday it's likely they won't begin deliberations in the trial until the week of March 5.

Last week the first of those cases went to the jury for deliberations and in the second case, a trial was averted when a former legislator pleaded guilty.

Pryce's first trial was thrown out after a series of questions by the jury prompted the judge to conclude they had fundamentally failed to understand the legal concepts they were being asked to pass judgement on.

The case, now being deliberated by a jury, is one of the first major public corruption trials in New York since a landmark 2016 Supreme Court ruling significantly narrowed the definition of what actually constitutes public corruption.

Hundreds of potential jurors came to the courthouse Wednesday to fill out questionnaires, the first step toward selection of a jury for a trial set to start March 12.

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 24 - year - old Marcos Felizola - Torres of Buffalo pleaded guilty as charged to Burglary in the First Degree on the first day of jury selection for his tFirst Degree on the first day of jury selection for his tfirst day of jury selection for his trial.

The first trial ended in a hung jury.

They had faced difficulties with the case after the jury in the first trial failed to reach unity on their guilt.

Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe this week announced that 32 - year - old Paul Giddens of 12 Aeslin Drive, Spring Valley, New York was convicted after a jury trial of one count of robbery in the first degree, a class «B» felony, two counts of robbery in the second degree, class «C» felonies, and one count -LSB-...]

Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe announced this week that 30 - year - old Andrew Baxter of 37 Memorial Park Drive, Spring Valley, New York was convicted after a jury trial of one count of robbery in the first degree, a class «B» felony; one count of robbery in the second degree, a class «C» felony; and one count of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, a class «A» misdemeanor relating to a knifepoint robbery in Spring Valley.

Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe announced this week that 30 - year - old Andrew Baxter of 37 Memorial Park Drive, Spring Valley, New York was convicted after a jury trial of one count of robbery in the first degree, a class «B» felony; one count of robbery in the second degree, a class «C» felony; and -LSB-...]

Although the jury instructions will have to be revised in light of the Supreme Court decision, the presentation of evidence and testimony is largely expected to track that of the first trial.

Little happened on the first day of the trial beyond the selection of the jury.

Mychal Bell, 17, the first of the classmates to go on trial, was quickly convicted in a kangaroo court by an all - white jury presided over by a white judge in less than three hours.

First, they opt to hold Simpson's trial (and, therefore, jury selection) in downtown Los Angeles rather than in Santa Monica, so they're not faced with having to awkwardly explain away a mostly (if not all) white jury.

Noa P. Singleton speaks not a word in her own defense throughout a brief trial that ends with a jury finding her guilty of first - degree murder.

When Oracle v. Google went to trial the first time, in 2012, the jury found in favor of Google on every patent claim.

Who better to be the first reported lawyer to use an iPad to help win a jury trial than someone who calls himself MacLitigator?

This February, South Korea held its first - ever jury trial, in the case of a 27 - year - man charged with assault and trespass.

The trial of Joshua Monson ended Wednesday when he was convicted by a jury of first - degree murder.

She has first chaired numerous civil and criminal jury trials and served as lead counsel in ERISA matters throughout Florida.

The Southern District of Florida first said the evidence offered at trial reasonably supported the jury's award for lost earnings and other economic damages.

New lawyers could get courtroom experience in their first year, and often that experience involved jury trials.

For the majority of offences, no permission from the CPS or equivalent is needed and so the first step is usually an application to a magistrates» court to issue a summons or warrant which, if granted, begins the proceedings culminating in a trial either in the magistrates court, or in an appropriate case before a jury in the crown court.

«Scott brings additional first chair ITC and jury trial experience for leading tech and other companies.

The first trial resulted in the jury being deadlocked 10 - 1 in favor of Lightfoot's client.

Ideas include: 1) writing about a recent news story as it relates to your practice areas, 2) writing about new cases as they are issued and include your take on the case, 3) writing about another blogger's recent post and provide an opposing, or alternate, viewpoint, or 4) answering questions about the legal process that clients typically ask you, such as what types of information they should bring to the first appointment or how long a jury trial might last.

His first trial ended in a hung jury.

Upon his return north, he joined the New York office of Davis Polk & Wardwell as a lateral, during which he successfully prosecuted and first chaired a federal jury trial involving claims of excessive force under Section 1983 (Ruffin v. Fuller).

Both parties» lawyers are first - rate, so anything could come out of this jury trial, but if the jury doesn't after the first five questions get to the nitty - gritty technical detail, then it's unlikely to get things right.

He left GT with a group of lawyers in 2008 and became a partner at Seyfarth Shaw, during which he again first chaired and won his second federal jury trial defending claims of retaliatory and discriminatory termination of employment (Riscilli v. Gibson Guitar).

At the culmination of a very strange trial in which the accused insisted on representing herself, a jury recently found Xiu Jin Teng guilty of the first - degree murder of her husband.

Late last year, Pennsylvania's first Xarelto trial concluded with a Philadelphia jury awarding $ 28 million to an Indiana woman who was injured by the...

In 1981, as co-lead trial counsel, Mr. Russ achieved a multi-million dollar jury verdict in one of the first private Section 7 Clayton Act cases that directed Pillsbury Flour Co. to divest itself of Wilton, Inc., a dominant cake decorating equipment specialty firm.

On appeal, Esso argued that he was denied a fair trial when the district court allowed the jury to take home the copy of the indictment — an issue that the Second Circuit said appeared to be one of first impression in any federal or state court.

A jury convicted Bradshaw on two counts of first - degree murder, but the Court of Appeal held that it was an error to admit the videotape of the re-enactment into evidence, set aside the convictions and ordered a new trial.

Nothing in the Constitution requires that assessment of fault in a civil case tried in a state court be made by a jury, nor is there any prohibition against such a finding being made in the first instance by an appellate, rather than a trial, court.

While in Arizona, Jeff served first as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, during which time he conducted eight jury trials and numerous pretrial hearings in complex matters.

From the first day you retain us, we work tirelessly to build a powerful case, and although we are often able to settle out of court, we are always ready to present your case to a jury if a trial becomes necessary

He also gave the first name of the defendant and described his alleged crimes, writing, «Nowhere do I recall the jury instructions mandating I can't post comments in my blog about the trial.