Sentences with phrase «impression on a jury»

Eyewitness accounts can make a deep impression on a jury, especially when the witness is expresses a high level of certainty.

This is particularly important for a defendant, who needs to make a good impression on a jury.

Jury selection and the science of making an impression on a jury are becoming crucial for trials.

Not exact matches

Early impressions about Doom on Switch are now starting to surface, and while the jury is still out on how the final version will turn out, there already seems to be a strong consensus: running on Switch renders slight graphical changes, but Doom still pretty much feels and looks like Doom.

When I began my own career as a district court judge, I made it a point to meet with every jury in any case I tried so that I could answer their questions and get their impressions on the trial process and their role as a jury.

On appeal, Esso argued that he was denied a fair trial when the district court allowed the jury to take home the copy of the indictment — an issue that the Second Circuit said appeared to be one of first impression in any federal or state court.

Even a very incomplete list gives an impression of the large number of significant opinions he has written: seminal administrative law cases such as Chevron v. NRDC and Massachusetts v. EPA, the intellectual property case Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (which made clear that making individual videotapes of television programs did not constitute copyright infringement), important war on terror precedents such as Rasul v. Bush and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, important criminal law cases such as Padilla v. Kentucky (holding that defense counsel must inform the defendant if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation) and Atkins v. Virginia (which reversed precedent to hold it was unconstitutional to impose capital punishment on the mentally retarded), and of course Apprendi v. New Jersey (which revolutionized criminal sentencing by holding that the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibited judges from enhancing criminal sentences beyond statutory maximums based on facts other than those decided by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt).

You can write about your impressions before (if you do, however, you'll likely not make it on the jury) or after.