Skelos and his son Adam have been accused of conspiracy, extortion, wire fraud, and bribery, and their trial should
go to a jury in the next few weeks.
Lawyers for Sheldon Silver asked the judge to acquit him of all charges even before his case
goes to the jury in his corruption trial, in a motion that is routinely filed by defense lawyers after the government rests its case.
Not exact matches
If a prosecutor wants
to convict a man of assault, he is (without a doubt)
going to paint a picture for the audience of the suffering of the defendant, and will likely use expressive language
to evoke a feeling of sympathy from the
jury, who (as they listen) visualize the potential suffering of the man / woman
in front of them.
In March, two judges ruled Liss - Riordan's Uber and Lyft cases will
go to a trial by
jury.
David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the law firm that argued the largest - ever employment gender discrimination case
to go to trial — a class action suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals that resulted
in a $ 253 million
jury award for plaintiffs
in 2010, reduced post-trial
to $ 175 million — noted that
in that case, the company had just three investigators for a workforce of thousands.
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.
I wouldn't say that a finding by the
jury of infringement
in this case is
going to open up the door
to a lot more similar cases being filed against Led Zeppelin per se.
So anyone who sits on
jury and condemns someone
to death, the judge that imposes the sentence, the guards working
in the jail and anyone else who is involved
in executing prisoners is
going to hell?
A
jury has
gone out
to consider its conclusions
in the inquest into the death of Catholic school teacher Ann Maguire, who was murdered
in her classroom by a 15 - year - old student.
I'm not
going to rush
to judgment — grand
juries indict
in almost every case.
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!!
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!!
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!!
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!!
to get him, Wenger need
to show such attributes more!!
to show such attributes more!!!!
The only element of a felony assault charge that his defense might be able
to argue against was intent
to cause physical injury but unless they
go for an incapacity defense that's
going to be a hard sell
to a
jury because only a total retard would believe that hurling a heavy metal dolly through a glass bus window wouldn't likely result
in harm
to someone.
He had
gone to jail on March 16, 1985, the day a
jury of nine women and three men
in U.S. District Court
in Tampa found him guilty of racketeering, conspiracy
to commit racketeering (including loan - sharking), extortion and possession of cocaine with intent
to distribute it.
The
jury's still out on who the Charlotte Bobcats are
going to select with the No. 2 pick
in the draft, but they obviously like their options enough that they're not interested
in a straight swap with the Timberwolves for forward Derrick Williams.
I've run into this
in courthouse security,
going to jury duty.
As the
jury unanimously found, Daniel Halloran played a key role
in two distinct political corruption schemes: first, for $ 20,000, Halloran was willing and able
to serve as a
go - between
to deliver bribes
to political party officials, and second he also took nearly $ 25,000
in cash and illegal campaign contributions
to steer $ 80,000
in City Council money
to other bribe payers.»
While the
jury struggled
to come
to a verdict
in Espada's case, the feds made it quite clear they had no intention of letting him
go scott free
in the event of a mistrial.
Earlier
in the day, the
jury lost one member — Juror No. 9 — who said her grandmother died and she needed
to go to Boston for the funeral on Thursday.
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.
SilentHunter, Some of the differences are that a newspaper is publishing an account and a dossier; that this is
going to an independent complaints commission which the police do not control; that both supporters as well as opponents of the government will ask questions about this -
in parliament, on blogs, and
in many other places - no doubt pushing for an inquest with a
jury, and be pushing for broader changes
in policing
to ensure its consistency with the human rights legislation we now have (such as those being advocated by Stuart White here on Next Left).
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.
But
in a written decision, the judge said the charge relating
to bid - rigging can
go back
to a grand
jury.
«As the
jury unanimously found, Daniel Halloran played a key role
in two distinct political corruption schemes: first, for $ 20,000, Halloran was willing and able
to serve as a
go - between
to deliver bribes
to political party officials, and second he also took nearly $ 25,000
in cash and illegal campaign contributions
to steer $ 80,000
in City Council money
to other bribe payers,» Mr. Bharara said
in a statement.
In December 2009, a
jury convicted Bruno on two felony counts of mail fraud related
to payments from entrepreneur Jared Abbruzzese, who
went to him for help with various business ventures.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Catherine M. Mirabile,
in her counter argument
to Keating Monday, said plentiful evidence had been presented for the counts
to go on for
jury consideration.
Earlier
in the week — shortly before The New York Times reported that U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office was presenting evidence
to a grand
jury about Skelos» possible involvement
in the contract deal — Flanagan said, «At this juncture
in my career I obviously have significant experience, very well versed
in a lot of aspects of state government, and I certainly am
going to keep doing what I'm doing and use whatever skills I have
to enhance the work that I do.
It was clear early on
in the
jury's deliberations
in the federal corruption trial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver that things were not
going well, with one juror asking
to be excused because she felt physically unwell due feeling «pressured.»
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.
«I volunteered
to go in front of that grand
jury and did.
The reporting
in The Buffalo News is
going to the
jury pool,» Arcara said.
After hundreds of hours of testimony — sometimes explosive, sometimes plodding — about whether Joseph Percoco, a former aide
to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, sold his influence
in state government, the case
in Federal District Court
in Manhattan has
gone to the
jury.
U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni has noted throughout the trial that the government's case is built almost entirely on circumstantial evidence, and her instructions
to the
jury will
go a long way
in determining how jurors come
to assess Silver.
A former «chairwoman» was Sparaco's mother -
in - law, Debra Ortutay, who
went to jail for lying
to a grand
jury that was investigating improprieties involving the signing of petitions for the party's ballot line during Sparaco's race against Zebrowski
in 2010.
«That
jury's out right now
in the North Pacific, and it's
going to constitute millions of salmon, and they'll render their verdict
in the summer of 2014.»
After the judge dismissed the «
jury» at the beginning of the trial (he actually didn't make us leave, the dismissal was for dramatic effect), he and the lawyers
went through the procedures that would be undertaken
in a real case
to determine if evidence should be admitted for the
jury to see.
Monkeying around
in the garage, they
jury - rigged a motor and steering handles
to a wood frame and careened through the woods
in their
go - cart.
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 challe
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 challe
jury for the next challenge.
The Grand
Jury Prize, or second place,
went to Robin Campillo's «BPM (Beats Per Minute),» a story of AIDS activists
in Paris
in the early 1990s.
Thus, I can only vageuly speculate as
to their merits, and report the other four main prize winners: Joseph Madmony's Restoration received the Grand Prix, the Special
Jury Prize was given
to Martin Šulík's Gypsy, David Morse got Best Actor for his work
in Collaborator, and Best Actress
went to Stine Fischer Christensen for Cracks
in the Shell.
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.
In the World Cinema dramatic competition, the grand jury prize went to «The Nile Hilton Incident,» while «I Dream in Another Language» landed the audience awar
In the World Cinema dramatic competition, the grand
jury prize
went to «The Nile Hilton Incident,» while «I Dream
in Another Language» landed the audience awar
in Another Language» landed the audience award.
Jury is still out
in ESO as
to whether the stuff you can only get from the Crown Crates is
going to upset the balance.
If you're not
in the mood for all this misery you may not want
to go near Frozen River, but be advised that it's also a tough little thriller that drew effusive praise from Quentin Tarantino when he awarded it the Grand
Jury Prize at Sundance.
There's an embarrassment of riches
in this category this year, and it's entirely possible that the prize will instead
go to Hilary Swank (for The Homesman), Anne Dorval (for Mommy — the jury could also award it jointly to Dorval and Suzanne Clément), Alexandra Lungu (as the eldest daughter in The Wonders), Julianne Moore (way over the top, for my taste, in Maps To The Stars), or Juliette Binoche (for Clouds Of Sils Maria
to Hilary Swank (for The Homesman), Anne Dorval (for Mommy — the
jury could also award it jointly
to Dorval and Suzanne Clément), Alexandra Lungu (as the eldest daughter in The Wonders), Julianne Moore (way over the top, for my taste, in Maps To The Stars), or Juliette Binoche (for Clouds Of Sils Maria
to Dorval and Suzanne Clément), Alexandra Lungu (as the eldest daughter
in The Wonders), Julianne Moore (way over the top, for my taste,
in Maps
To The Stars), or Juliette Binoche (for Clouds Of Sils Maria
To The Stars), or Juliette Binoche (for Clouds Of Sils Maria).
«
In The Soup» (1992) From the same Sundance class as «Reservoir Dogs» and «El Mariachi» (and winning the Grand
Jury Prize that year, no less), this Steve Buscemi - starring flick about a struggling screenwriter, from director Alexandre Rockwell, was expected
to go on
to great things even before the Tarantino and Rodriguez films blew up.
The Critic's Week sidebar, which runs separately but concurrently
to the main festival, features films from China, Vietnam, Iran, Palestine, France, Italy, Germany, and Serbia, with nine films
in total being judged by festival -
goers, rather than a
jury.
Instead, the Grand
Jury Prize
in Dramatic Competition
went to Macon Blair's directorial debut I Don't Feel at Home
in This World Anymore and the Audience Award
went to Crown Heights, and while neither is a bad movie, I don't think either will get the buzz that something like Whiplash received.
Of the documentaries (
in recent years, Searching for Sugar Man and Twenty Feet From Stardom began their journeys at the festival before
going on
to Oscar glory), the frontrunner out of the new batch is Weiner, winner of the US documentary grand
jury prize, which tracks Anthony Weiner's disastrous mayoral bid
in 2014, followed closely by Life, Animated, an incredibly moving film that explores how films helped an autistic person communicate with the outside world.
In recent years, the Grand
Jury Prize and the Audience Award
go to the breakout hit of the festival.