Sentences with phrase «guilty verdict in»

Defended same client against product defect action, winning not guilty verdict in highly publicized jury trial.

The Justice Department won't defend a judge's order denying Arpaio's request to vacate the guilty verdict in his criminal contempt case following his pardon by President Trump.

The victim's family can still pursue a wrongful death case against the driver in civil court, despite the not guilty verdict in criminal court.

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.

This means that, while a guilty verdict in a criminal case doesn't necessary equate with civil liability, it is a strong indication that civil liability may follow.

Guilty verdict in what prosecutors call «most lucrative insider trading scheme in U.S. history», Reuters

While I'm not sure if it's technically correct that there's no evidence of wrongdoing whatsoever, it seems strange to me that in a legal system where the defendant is innocent until proven guilty, an appeals court would not be legally required to exonerate the convict if unable to find any evidence (or the single piece of evidence was retracted, as in this case) with which they could have rendered a guilty verdict in the first place.

On the flip side, suppose I report «Mr. Caswell is the Creeper and Bank Robber», prior to Caswell receiving a guilty verdict in a court of law, I am committing libel.

CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman joins «CBS This Morning» from San Francisco to discuss Bill Cosby's guilty verdict in the Andrea Constand sexual assault case.

I owned BBX until last summer; I sold when the courts upheld Mr. Alan Levan's appeal against an earlier guilty verdict in an SEC lawsuit.

While I applaud this move and would like to see it elsewhere, I have to scratch my head when viewed from the standpoint of Apple's guilty verdict in its iBook case.

A litany of incriminating text messages led to a guilty verdict in the case of Michelle Carter, charged with involuntary manslaughter for encouraging her boyfriend, Conrad Roy, to take his own life.

The wittiest scene in Joel and Ethan Coen's 2001 film The Man Who Wasn't There is one in which a fast - talking defense attorney, Freddy Riedenschneider (marvelously played by Tony Shalhoub), invokes Heisenberg's uncertainty principle as grounds for a not - guilty verdict in a murder case:

After a guilty verdict in a 2009 class - action lawsuit, Dannon payed out $ 35 million to consumers.

Prosecutors who helped secure a guilty verdict in the case of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver on Nov. 30 were present during the closing remarks.

Lawyers for former NYPD Officer Peter Liang filed a bombshell motion Tuesday, seeking to set aside the ex-cop's guilty verdict in the fatal shooting of unarmed Akai Gurley, claiming one of the jurors who convicted him of manslaughter should not have been on the panel.

Former Governor David Paterson joined Errol Louis to weigh in on the downfall of Eric Schneiderman and the guilty verdict in the Sheldon Silver trial.

Dean Skelos, left, and his son, Adam, leave federal court in Manhattan after the guilty verdict in their corruption trial on Dec. 11, 2015.

BUFFALO, NY (WBEN)- The jury in the May 2016 Anchor Bar shooting returned a guilty verdict in that incident which cost the life of Freddy Dizon.

Despite a guilty verdict in his federal corruption trial, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver today stuck with his long - standing mantra: he will be vindicated.

Jurors have returned a guilty verdict in the second «Black Sunday» trial.

Libous served in the state Senate from 1988 until July 2015, when the guilty verdict in his case forced his removal from office.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a statement Monday evening reacting to the guilty verdict in the Sheldon Silver corruption case hinted at yet another ethics legislation push, calling on state lawmakers to «take seriously the need for reform.»

Errol Louis analyzed the guilty verdict in the corruption trial of Joe Percoco, with Laura Nahmias of Politico New York, Erica Orden of the Wall Street Journal, Bobby Cuza of NY1, and Zack Fink of NY1.

The conviction is a major victory for U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, coming on the heels of a guilty verdict in the case of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

Lawyers for former NYPD Officer Peter Liang filed a bombshell motion Tuesday, seeking to set aside the ex-cop's guilty verdict in the fatal shooting of unarmed Akai Gurley, claiming one...

Critics of Gov. Andrew Cuomo — including his Republican gubernatorial opponents and a GOP - aligned super PAC — pounce on the news Tuesday of the guilty verdict in the corruption case of his close former aide.

The guilty verdict in the case of Joe Percoco was coupled with not guilty results for two prominent upstate developers who had also been accused of corruption and bribery by federal prosecutors.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan in a statement Tuesday said he would be willing to discuss «additional changes» to the state's ethics and transparency laws after the guilty verdict in the corruption case of Joe Percoco, a former close aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Rather, after the cross-examination of Bryan (which was stricken from the record the following day), Darrow stated his willingness to accept a guilty verdict in order to move to appeal.

(CNN)- As news spread on social media of the not guilty verdict in the Trayvon Martin case, a religious theme soon emerged: Sooner or later, a higher authority will judge George Zimmerman

Mere days after the jury returned a guilty verdict in Bill Cosby's post - #MeToo retrial, the disgraced star has been removed from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Of those they did press forward, the feds obtained guilty verdicts in a respectable 76 %.

Not - guilty verdicts in Silver's case would have let the steam out of whatever it is that the prosecutor is planning for Cuomo, and that didn't happen.

According to the Huffington Post, «The Florence appellate court that reinstated the first trial guilty verdicts in January handed Knox a 28 1/2 year sentence, including the additional conviction on a slander charge for wrongly accusing a Congolese bar owner.

Sociologists in the U.S., as well as legal scholars, have studied the phenomenon, and it appears that most not guilty verdicts in fact let go a guilty person.

He has tried hundreds of cases, and secured Not Guilty verdicts in the Superior Court, state district courts and federal District Court.

But mock trials also show sympathetic defendants get more non-guilty verdicts and unsympathetic defendants get more guilty verdicts in front of jurors who were explicitly told about nullification compared to those who weren't.

At O'Meara Law, we've helped many people avoid guilty verdicts in high - stakes cases.

With the very narrow, newly created exception for guilty verdicts in criminal cases reached based upon racial or other kinds of impermissible prejudice rather than the facts of the case (or cases where there is an outside influence on the jury such as a bribe or someone looking up facts or law on the Internet), no one can challenge a jury verdict based upon the reasoning and conclusions actually made by the jurors, even if someone learns that the jury knowingly or accidentally didn't follow the law or was mistaken about the facts.

Not exact matches

The night after they obtained a guilty verdict against one defendant, in 2011, prosecutors and their staff spent a total of $ 763.80 for dinner at a country club (divided by the 18 individuals present, that comes out to $ 42.39 each).

In returning its verdict Thursday afternoon on the sixth day of deliberations, the Superior Court jury also pronounced Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty of assault with a firearm, finding credence in defense attorneys» argument that the shot that ricocheted off the concrete ground before piercing Steinle's heart was an accident, with the gun discharging after the defendant stumbled upon it on the waterfront on July 1, 201In returning its verdict Thursday afternoon on the sixth day of deliberations, the Superior Court jury also pronounced Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty of assault with a firearm, finding credence in defense attorneys» argument that the shot that ricocheted off the concrete ground before piercing Steinle's heart was an accident, with the gun discharging after the defendant stumbled upon it on the waterfront on July 1, 201in defense attorneys» argument that the shot that ricocheted off the concrete ground before piercing Steinle's heart was an accident, with the gun discharging after the defendant stumbled upon it on the waterfront on July 1, 2015.

Hundreds marched across the country in response to the 2015 verdict that found Ontario truck driver Bradley Barton not guilty of first degree murder in the death of Cindy Gladue.

Irish rock band U2 was forced to cancel its St. Louis concert scheduled Saturday over security concerns after Black Lives Matter activists clashed with police following the not guilty verdict of Jason Stockley in the shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith.

(A complete copy of the Verdict, the Court Order WE ALL FOUND GUILTY OF THE DEATH AND GENOCIDE OF OVER 50 000 CHILDREN IN CANADA?

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

God) why couldn't those who feel the Not Guilty verdict is acceptable... and feel that Zimmerman DID act in self - defense... and who feel that Martin WAS the aggressor and was threatening Zimmerman's life... likewise say that a Higher Power DID step in?

Any and every bar fight can now end in a not guilty verdict by the subjective rational of» I thought my life was in danger:»

CNN: Sandusky's pastor addresses conviction from pulpit Jerry Sandusky sits in a county jail cell in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, but his presence and the weight of the 45 guilty verdicts rendered against the former Penn State football coach on Friday night hung in the air Sunday morning at the State College church where he and his wife are longtime members.

State College, Pennsylvania (CNN)-- Jerry Sandusky sits in a county jail cell in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, but his presence and the weight of the 45 guilty verdicts rendered against the former Penn State football coach on Friday night hung in the air Sunday morning at the State College church where he and his wife are longtime members.