Sentences with phrase «getting jury instructions»
They also universally note the helpfulness of getting jury instructions in writing in addition to the oral presentation.
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«All you have to do is get the jury instructions right and then describe the evidence appropriately and not call things official acts that are not official acts.»
Not exact matches
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.
The paper reports the jury in Silver's case got erroneous jury instructions from the judge.
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. Cuomo.
The two companies are also dueling over the instructions that will be read to the jury before they get this form.
When judges ask for «critique» of a draft jury instruction, they expect and get extremely respectful responses.
Once the lawyers have fought over the instructions and the judge decides what will be presented, the jury only gets them in writing... in some states not even in writing, they only get them read to them without a copy to take back to the room.