Sentences with phrase «get on the jury»

When you have a chance to serve as an independent juror, please: Show up and get on the jury.

Jury Selection (Voir Dire) ● How do I get on the jury?

Remember, your best shot at ensuring a fair trial and a just verdict is to get on the jury!

If after learning about jury nullification you think it's a good idea: answer «yes» and you'll be rejected, but answer «no» with the intent to get on the jury to nullify and you've just committed perjury — technically a federal crime — which makes the optimal strategy once on a jury to zip it.

Not exact matches

There's a whole process that's set up to ensure that the jury that finally gets impaneled is an objective group of people with no connection with anything going on in the case that might persuade them to cast a decision that's inconsistent with the evidence that's presented at the trial.

If both sides, through their eyes and their people's eyes, have concluded that the plaintiff is absolutely going to win this case, and the plaintiff is going to get a lot of money because they're totally on board with everything that has been presented, then that might be a good reason for the defendant to agree to a settlement with the plaintiff for less money than the potential exposure if the jury comes back and finds willful infringement.

If I were on the jury prosecuting the case, the other 11 jurors couldn't get me to say «guilty» no matter what.

If you've got a problem with believing and acting based on what the evidence says then I suggest that you never go on jury duty.

And while the jury's out on whether or not these dried fruits can actually help you get it on, John and Kira's chocolate covered figs certainly make us a little weak in the knees.

Get a taster of the cookbook by trying out recipes for Baked Tofu with Tomato Rice, Lasagna with Wild Mushroom Sauce and Pizza with Lemon and Brussels Sprouts, shared on the Meat Free Monday website courtesy of Jean - Christian Jury and Phaidon.

But it is such a shame we never got much bang for buck from Gabriel, Perez or Chambers (until now) and that the jury is still out on Xhaka and that Mustafi's situation and up and down performances are shrouded in mystery.

If Poldi does go we will go all out for Reus, he wants to join Arsenal because of his hero Rosicky, Dortmund have slowly weakened their stance on Reus and a transfer, so things are moving along behind the scenes.Reus had in principal agreed to join us before the World Cup, then he got injured so we backed off, he's back now so once we beat Beskitas we will get Reus I have no doubts.OT didn't think Alexis set the world alight yesterday playing CF jury still out on wether he can play there, he worked tirelessly throughout but kept losing the ball and misplaced passes, he will come good just needs time to adjust

To be fair because these players flopped in their respective clubs does not necessarily mean Te would have flopped at Arsenal because if you want to use such harebrained and short - sighted analogy then you can blame Wenger for the many many players hw could have signed who later turned out world class later, CR7, Zlatan just to mention 2...... like it or lump it Wenger is overcautious and indecisive in the transfer market nowadays...... you win some and lose some, no manager in the world can boast a 100 % success rate when buying players...... I know the jury is still out on Martial but personally I respect LVG's courage, conviction and decisiveness in identifying him and going al out to get him, Wenger need to show such attributes more!!!!

For now, the jury is still on Perez and probably Welbeck too, the season is long so let's see how the strikers will fare when they get their chance...

The jury is still out on Shaw and Rojo, and whilst I would like to see Young stay its not fair on him to keep him as a reserve when he could be getting regular football elsewhere and a massive boost to his pension pot.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who got the ball rolling against Pedro Espada Jr. during his stint as state attorney general, clearly feels vindicated by the jury's conviction today of the former Senate majority leader on four counts of theft from his taxpayer - funded Bronx health clinic.

«We are sort of the vanguard and protector of a lot of things that could happen in the state of New York like allowing illegal immigrants to get college tuition, allowing people to serve on juries, allowing people to serve on juries who have no legal status here.»

Acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim said he was confident the result would be the same at a planned re-trial on Silver's «decades long corruption» in which the jury gets correct instructions.

«I then did what a federal judge does when a jury is deadlocked and issued an Alan charge trying to get them to move on their positions.

«Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history.

The summations will continue Wednesday and the jury is expected to get the case possibly on Thursday.

Kim's statement goes on to say, «Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history.

While his former top aide is the one facing a jury, Gov. Cuomo will be firmly on the hot seat as a blockbuster corruption trial gets underway Monday — one...

The Daily News reports that on Day 3 of jury deliberations, the panel of eight women and four men got the calculator and met for more than six hours before retiring for the night without reaching a verdict.

«Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history,» he said.

The two alternatives now are to 1) appoint a new jury and conduct a mini-trial before it goes to decide on the penalty (which could take months); or 2) the judge could get the prosecutors to agree to forgo the death penalty; and the judge could unilaterally impose life w / o parole or life, with parole after 25 yrs.

I doubt that he'll get a jury to convict people on his rinky - dink charges.

«It would not only allow illegal immigrants to vote and run for office in state and local elections, it would allow them to get driver's licenses, serve on juries, and become eligible for Medicaid.»

On a Thursday night in the midst of his testimony that lasted a week, marshals went to Howe's hotel last month and brought him to a federal jail in Manhattan after Howe admitting that day before the jury that he might have violated the terms of his cooperating deal by his 2016 attempt to get a hotel tab erased from his credit card.

Prosecutors on Tuesday showed the jury emails from Taub that suggested the then - Columbia University cancer doctor secretly disdained Silver and his law firm as part of a dog - eat - dog crowd that merely sought to get rich off mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.

On Friday, Azrack said while hearing arguments from the attorneys about the wording of instructions on the law that jurors will get, that she had read jury instructions from the corruption trials of Sheldon Silver, the former state Assembly speaker convicted for a second time on Friday, and Joseph Percoco, former aide to Gov. Andrew M. CuomOn Friday, Azrack said while hearing arguments from the attorneys about the wording of instructions on the law that jurors will get, that she had read jury instructions from the corruption trials of Sheldon Silver, the former state Assembly speaker convicted for a second time on Friday, and Joseph Percoco, former aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomon the law that jurors will get, that she had read jury instructions from the corruption trials of Sheldon Silver, the former state Assembly speaker convicted for a second time on Friday, and Joseph Percoco, former aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomon Friday, and Joseph Percoco, former aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

«We've got a mayor who's facing six investigations, possibly going on a seventh from six different agencies, two grand juries empaneled and all of that is causing great pain to the taxpayers of New York.»

After defense attorneys spent hours grilling Howe about his nefarious past, U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni, with the jury out of the room, tried to get the lawyers to move on.

The local court system is reaching out to the community to help get more African Americans to serve on jury duty.

«Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history,» Kim said.

Federal grand jury witnesses get only «use immunity,» meaning the prosecutor could not use the murder confession in court but could still convict the killer on other proof.

And even though the scientific jury's still out on whether this is a good idea, some parents have been wiping their C - section babies down with vaginal fluid in the hopes that their newborns might get some of those microbial benefits, Laura Sanders reported earlier this yearover at the Growth Curve blog.

The jury is still out on these because I just got»em, but I'll keep you posted!

One of the Jury members is Tess van Duinker from Fashionscene and The winner is going to be featured on fashionscene.nl and also gets a place in the jury for the next challeJury members is Tess van Duinker from Fashionscene and The winner is going to be featured on fashionscene.nl and also gets a place in the jury for the next challejury for the next challenge.

Other highlights are ADAMA a deeply moving animation about the life of a young boy in West Africa in 1914; Mamoru Hosoda's THE BOY AND THE BEAST, an exquisitely animated fable about a boy who has run away from home and is alone in the human world following the passing of his mother; Jury Feting's CELESTIAL CAMEL, a fascinating and thrilling tale about a 12 year old herder whose father has sold a young colt who may be the fabled «celestial camel»; Academy Award ® winner Gabriele Salvatores» THE INVISIBLE BOY, a charming coming of age tale about a shy boy, picked on by his peers, who gets his wish to hide from the world when he discovers a Halloween outfit that makes him invisible; Alexandre Heboyan and Benoît Philippon's hugely enjoyable CGI animated adventure MUNE, about a faun who lives in a faraway world; Studio Ghibli's beautiful drama WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi; and the World Premiere of Tim Clague and Danny Stark's WHO KILLED NELSON NUTMEG?

Adapted by Akhavan and Cecilia Frugiuele from Emily M. Danforth's acclaimed book, «The Miseducation of Cameron Post» (Winner of the Grand Jury Prize, US Dramatic) follows Cameron, as she gets caught making out with another girl on prom night and is sent off to a conversion center by her conservative family.

Brooklyn's score will only get in if the movie has some broad strength with Academy voters — the jury is still out on that.

Under the jury president, Jane Campion, the best films so far in main competition here have revolved around female characters — complex, imperfect, beautifully drawn these leading roles offer up a counter to the majority of films that get paid attention to here in the US, on the festival and awards circuit leading up to the Oscars.

To get us all started, we've compiled a list of the titles we think are the strongest contenders to put in an appearance on the Croisette, whether In Competition (to be judged by a Jury presided over this year by Palme d'Or winner Jane Campion) or in one of the headache - inducing number of sidebars, after the glitzy gala premiere of «Grace of Monaco» kicks off proceedings in earnest on May 14th.

Ben Keenan In Ireland today, women can order a pint in a pub, sit on a jury, keep a government job if she gets married, buy contraceptives and demand equal pay — none of which was legally permitted by the...

The latter award is one I predicted (not with any great enthusiasm, mind) the moment the credits started rolling on the film: as well as it being the kind of showily «brave» work that festival juries often fall for, it always seemed likely Gallo would get some kind of pat on the back for bringing two features (plus a short) to Venice this year.

«The Distinguished Citizen» Comedies don't get nearly enough respect come awards time, which is one reason I was delighted to serve on the jury of this year's Monte Carlo Comedy Film Festival, where we honored this brilliant send - up of a self - important expat author (Oscar Martínez, who won best actor in Venice).

There is a great narrative associated to Thunder Road: it serves as a brilliant proof of concept project as it was based on the Sundance Grand Jury prize winning short, and serves as a reminder that in this era, regardless of a small budget or limited means — that if you've got a great idea and a team of creative collaborators, you can make a feature film in the month of November and win a major film festival five months later.

Jessica Chastain stands firm on equal pay, Uma Thurman to lead Cannes» Un Certain Regard jury, Amy Adams to receive American Cinematheque Award, and «Captain Marvel» gets directing team.

On these schools» long - term goal of getting students into and through college, the jury is out.