Sentences with phrase «in a jury trial on»

Obtained a defense verdict in a jury trial on behalf of a regional supermarket chain.

Defense verdict in jury trial on behalf of a major Orlando theme park, where the plaintiffs were seeking $ 1.2 million in past and future damages due to slip and fall injury.

Not exact matches

The jury spent a total of just 14 hours in the penalty phase of the trial after finding Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 criminal counts, but an automatic appeal means his case will drag on.

At trial in San Francisco federal court in 2012, the jury deadlocked on Google's fair use defense.

After being found guilty in a 2012 jury trial on theft and mail fraud charges, Lanham was sentenced to three years in prison.

The accord came ahead of a jury trial that was set to begin on Monday in state court in Woburn, Massachusetts.

In criminal trials, the burden of proof lies on the prosecution, meaning the jury will have to find Hernandez guilty «beyond a reasonable doubt.»

While they opened the trial by admitting Tsarnaev's role, he has maintained his not - guilty plea, leaving prosecutors to first convince the jury of his guilt before moving on to the question of whether he should be sentenced to death or to life in prison without possibility of parole.

Ross Ulbricht, 30, was convicted on all seven counts he faced by a federal jury in Manhattan, following a closely - watched trial that spilled out of U.S. investigations into the use of the digital currency bitcoin for drug trafficking and other crimes.

On June 6, 2017, lawyers presented opening statements in the trial, with Carter having waived her right to a trial by jury.

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.

In Cosby's first trial last year, another jury had failed to agree on an outcome, teeing up the retrial that played out in Pennsylvania this montIn Cosby's first trial last year, another jury had failed to agree on an outcome, teeing up the retrial that played out in Pennsylvania this montin Pennsylvania this month.

A San Francisco jury trial on the matter had been set to start in June, but that could be taken off the table if the judge presiding over the case approves the agreement.

O.J. Simpson looks at a new pair of Aris extra-large gloves which the prosecutors had him put on for the jury 21 June 1995 during his double murder trial in Los Angeles.

As one airline lawyer commented after the trial: «Having a jury determine that the provisions in that contract were illegal obviously raises very serious implications for Sabre if they want to continue to insist on them in contracts.»

CNN: Philadelphia abuse trial has taken toll on very Catholic city A Philadelphia sex abuse trial in which a jury reached a mixed verdict on a church higher - up accused of protecting sexually abusive priests was closely watched for its national implications.

I am sure that if anyone were charged with a crime, or is on trial, I am sure that if any of those lines were used in the presence of a police officer, judge, jury, etc., that person would be ticking off that person and hurting his own case.

Preliminary hearings ensued, and dismissals of charges, and trials and mistrials and retrials, and an acquittal, and two hung juries, and defections and elections of district attorneys, and the McMartin defense team carried on, until the list of defendants had dwindled to one, young Raymond Buckey, a surfer dude who had not seen the sun in years, whose charges were finally dismissed in 1990.

Maybe justice and the good society are brought about precisely by lawyers and judges sending the jury out of the courtroom while they decide whether to admit the testimony of an old black woman who has been listening in on the whole trial of her son.

Here was a black man obviously involved to some degree in the theft of church funds and the murder of a white man in a southern city, now on trial in «the Man's» court before an all - white middle - class jury.

If I am ever a defendant in a murder trial, I hope you are on the jury.

There is a brief mention in Article III of jury trial not being available for impeachment, and there is probably a suggestion in Article I that members of Congress will not usually be impeached, as each house has the power to (I, 5) to expel one of their members on their own.

CNN: No verdict in Philadelphia priest sex abuse trial, source says A Philadelphia jury was unable to reach a verdict Wednesday on four of five charges in a landmark priest sex abuse case, according to a source familiar with the proceeding.

«Yvonne Cryns told the parents that she had delivered hundreds of babies, including breech babies, and even showed them pictures of those deliveries,» Lake County Assistant State's Atty. Claudia Kasten told the jury as Cryns» trial on involuntary manslaughter charges began in a Waukegan courtroom.

The jury in the Joe Percoco federal corruption trial resumes its work today, after appearing to focus much of its attention last Friday on the low - show job given to Percoco's wife, Lisa, by a Maryland - based energy company, Competitive Power Ventures, which is behind a controversial new power plant in Orange County.

Jury selection began yesterday in the trial of two of the three former University at Albany students accused of fabricating a racially motivated hate crime on a CDTA bus last year.

A juror in the Joe Percoco corruption case was called for service on a second jury as deliberations stretch into the seventh week of trial.

He and Pedro G. face a new trial in Brooklyn on charges that the jury failed to reach a verdict on in May.

Jury deliberations in the corruption trial of former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco appeared to have run aground on their fourth day, as three jurors issued notes asking to be excused from the case, with one expressing concern about the storm expected to slam the New York City metro area; and another saying that she has sick children.

U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni, openly frustrated by the pace of the trial's proceedings, said she plans on telling the jury first thing Thursday it's likely they won't begin deliberations in the trial until the week of March 5.

Artist sketch shows John Venditto, second from top left, and Linda and Edward Mangano, second and third from the right, during jury selection for their federal corruption trial in Central Islip on March 12.

The jury drama in the corruption trial of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver continued on Monday, as Juror No. 11, an African - American man from the Bronx, asked to be dismissed over a conflict of interest.

A jury found Queens City Councilman Ruben Wills guilty on five of six counts against him in his corruption trial, and he automatically lost his seat as a result.

Rechnitz told the jury at Seabrook's trial that he delivered a $ 60,0000 br ibe to the once - powerful head of the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association in December 2014 on behalf of hedge fund executive Murray Huberfeld.

Dean Skelos, son Adam arrive at court Republican State Sen. Dean Skelos, his son Adam, and their lawyers arrive at a federal courthouse in Manhattan on Nov. 17, 2015, the second day of jury selection in their corruption trial on charges of conspiracy, bribery and extortion.

Federal prosecutors are seeking to retry U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez on bribery and corruption charges after an earlier trial ended in a deadlocked jury last fall.

«A jury rejected the government's facts and theory of bribery, and now the trial judge has rejected a critical legal theory on which the case was brought,» Lowell said in the statement.

This summer when a Lake Katrine man was on trial for using a civilian drone outside a Town of Ulster medical building, Ulster County Assistant District Attorney Tom Colonna summed up «drone anxiety» by telling the jury that the machines «put human eyes in a place, like 30 feet in the air outside an exam room window, where human eyes normally wouldn't be.»

(CNN)- Jury selection was set to start on Monday in the corruption trial of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, who is charged along with his wife of improperly accepting gifts from a businessman while in office in exchange for promoting his company.

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 24 - year - old Marcos Felizola - Torres of Buffalo pleaded guilty as charged to Burglary in the First Degree on the first day of jury selection for his trial.

A jury found Silver guilty on all seven charges against him in a federal corruption trial that lasted five - weeks.

The trial of the former state Senate majority leader and his son, Adam Skelos (pictured), begins with jury selection on Monday in Manhattan Federal Court.

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Bridget Kelly and Bill Baroni, former aides of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, were found guilty on all counts by a jury in the Bridgegate trial.

A U.S. District Court jury in Manhattan found the former aide, Joseph Percoco, guilty of three felonies on Tuesday, culminating a seven - week public corruption trial.

The trial of the former state Senate majority leader and his son, Adam Skelos, begins with jury selection on Monday in Manhattan Federal Court.

The verdict came on the jury's third day of deliberations, after a five - week trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan.

Trial and jury consultant Marshall Hennington said one reason personal - injury lawyers do so well in The Bronx is because «disenfranchised» jurors often make decisions based on emotions rather than evidence.

«We the jurors remain deadlocked on all counts,» read the note from the jury in federal corruption trial of City Council Member Larry Seabrook.

In a moment of courtroom levity, Caproni announced at the conclusion of Thursday's deliberations that a juror had sent a note informing the court that she had been summoned to serve jury duty in another courthouse on Thursday, even as she served her seventh week on the Percoco trial jurIn a moment of courtroom levity, Caproni announced at the conclusion of Thursday's deliberations that a juror had sent a note informing the court that she had been summoned to serve jury duty in another courthouse on Thursday, even as she served her seventh week on the Percoco trial jurin another courthouse on Thursday, even as she served her seventh week on the Percoco trial jury.