Sentences with phrase «hands of jurors»

The Virginia Supreme Court has frequently reversed trial courts which attempt to remove these cases from the hands of jurors.

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On the other hand, she said, jurors might be able to put their views aside while grappling with issues of ballistics and forensic evidence.

Superior Court Judge Gary Gavenus made the decision after a member of the jury handed out three documents to fellow jurors including North Carolina case law, according to the AP.

If that entirely unofficial award is locked up, though, the official Cannes awards that winners can brag about winning are now in the hands of nine jurors, whose deliberations are almost entirely unpredictable.

Arbitration puts the final decision in the hands of one person, who likely is more experienced and sophisticated about the law than six jurors in a courtroom.

Mark Humphrey Mark Humphrey Gallery, Southampton, NY Juror for Art of the Non-Dominant Hand, 2016 Mark Humphrey was born in Iowa and grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

ATLANTA PRINT BIENNIAL November 15 - December 7, 2013 International Juried Exhibit hosted by Barbara Archer Juror: Beauvais Lyons, University of Tennessee Details and Prospectus coming soon This is the second Atlanta Print Biennial, an international juried exhibit of hand pulled prints and works on paper produced by renowned artists from around the world.

Assistant District Attorney Zach Daniels of Livingston Parish told jurors in closing arguments that Neames fired the gun because he «wanted to take justice into his own hands,» according to the Advocate.

Due to their serious nature and the public scrutiny that they garner, these cases are difficult to negotiate, so it is often the case that 12 jurors hold the fate of the client in their hands.

On one hand, Andrew Fastow — who served up his wife as a sacrifical lamb for his embezzlement of millions from Enron that triggered one of the largest bankruptcy cases in U.S. history, who used the NatWest Three to hide his embezzlement of millions more and then turned on the U.K. bankers to save his skin, who very well may have forged Richard Causey's initials on the Global Galatic «agreement,» whose bizarre testimony during the Lay - Skilling trial was largely discounted by jurors and who had a large hand in ruining the careers of four innocent Merrill Lynch executives in order to lessen his prison sentence — is sentenced to six years in prison.

On the other hand, what do the jurors think of this sentence?

Mark Iannicelli was arrested on 27 July 2015 at the Lindesy - Flanigan Courthouse in Denver, Colorado where he was allegedly handing out flyers informing people of jurors» right to conscientiously acquit by way of jury nullification.

We'll have a lot more videos to feature on our blog Freedom Fridays and elsewhere on our website to educate potential jurors about how they can use the opportunity of jury service to protect all of our rights from abuse at the hands of government.

The Fully Informed Jury Association along with two co-plaintiffs secured an injunction in August 2015 against such arrests by the Denver Police Department of juror rights educators handing out FIJA's Fresh Air for Justice and Your Jury Rights: True or False?.

Upon contact, officers explained the reason for the contact, including that the police had been informed of the defendant handing out information to potential jurors.

Several jurors were contacted by Denver Police Intelligence Unit and were found to be in possession of fliers handed out by the defendant.

Judge bans leaflets meant to influence jurors at courthouses Ninth Judicial Circuit Chief Judge Belvin Perry signed the Florida Administrative Court Order in response to representatives of the national non-profit organization Fully Informed Jury Association handing out pamphlets outside the Orange County Courthouse, according to a story in The Orlando Sentinel.

Julian Heicklen, an 80 - year - old retired chemistry professor, had been indicted for standing outside a Manhattan federal courthouse handing out pamphlets explaining the legal theory that jurors who disagree with a law may acquit a defendant accused of violating that law.

While White may have had medical experts in hand, he also was entitled to consider that it was possible that an expert wasn't necessary if he believed that jurors would be allowed to make a finding that «if a patient without an infection is placed in a room full of infection, that the new patient may contract the infection.»

In U.S. v. Lawson, on the other hand, the federal Fourth Circuit addressed at length the reliability concerns presented by reliance on Wikipedia.32 The issue arose when, despite the trial court's explicit instruction not to conduct research on the internet or otherwise, a juror reviewed, during deliberations, a Wikipedia definition of an element of the crime with which the defendant was charged.33 The juror no longer had the original Wikipedia entry but obtained a printout two weeks later in anticipation of his appearance before the court on complaints of juror misconduct.

In most circumstances, jurors are the trier of fact, and they must be able to glean a clear picture of the case at hand by contemplating a significant amount of evidence.