Sentences with phrase «in a murder trial said»

It started, Reed recounts, when a potential juror in a murder trial said she would not believe police witnesses.

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Dershowitz, who had counseled O. J. Simpson in the 1990s in a criminal murder trial from which the football player was acquitted, said he has agreed to help Weinstein with this issue.

«He doesn't remember the gun going off,» said attorney Fernando Oliver in 2001, during the trial of Agustin Garcia, who pleaded innocent to the murder charges.

After his 1985 trial, some jurors said they convicted him of manslaughter, not murder, because his heavy cocaine use was a factor in the crimes.

The acquittal of a Baltimore police officer charged with murder and six other crimes in the death of Freddie Gray has dealt a devastating blow to the prosecution, legal experts say, and raises questions about whether the state should press ahead with the trials of four other officers.

Olanbiwonnu said he and six other persons who stood trial for complicity in the murder of Aderiye had been vindicated by God and the court of law.

«In criminal trials, seeing intention in an action can mean the difference between first - degree and second - degree murder, in some cases between life and death, so any benefits of video replay should be weighed against its potentially biasing effects,» Caruso sayIn criminal trials, seeing intention in an action can mean the difference between first - degree and second - degree murder, in some cases between life and death, so any benefits of video replay should be weighed against its potentially biasing effects,» Caruso sayin an action can mean the difference between first - degree and second - degree murder, in some cases between life and death, so any benefits of video replay should be weighed against its potentially biasing effects,» Caruso sayin some cases between life and death, so any benefits of video replay should be weighed against its potentially biasing effects,» Caruso says.

And seeing Sting says he's a «self - declared, card carrying tree hugger» makes up for some of the slightly weird moments of the film - such as a segment that sugested the moment of the jury decision in O.J. Simpson's murder trial was a moment of shared global consciousness.

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If, however, you were convicted, and the Court found that you knew that the victim hadn't died at the time of trial, but you did not raise the fact that the victim wasn't dead, it isn't clear if you could have the original conviction vacated because it was a fair trial and you knew evidence sufficient to get yourself acquitted (which you may have refrained from presenting to avoid conviction on a lesser charge like kidnapping or aggravated assault), and the status of an «actual innocence» grounds for vacating a conviction after trial is hotly disputed, conservatives like the late Justice Scalia generally say «no», liberals generally say «yes», moderates like to say «yes» but make it almost impossible to establish except in rare cases like one where a live person walks in when there was a murder conviction for killing that actually living person.

These include: United States v. Resendiz - Ponce, which presents the question whether the omission of an element from a federal indictment can constitute harmless error (9th Circuit says no); Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc. v. Metrophones Telecommunications, Inc., on whether a provider of pay phone services can sue a long distance carrier for alleged violations of the Federal Communications Commission's regulations concerning compensation for coinless pay phone calls (9th Circuit says yes); Cunningham v. California, a sentencing case involving whether whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law violates the 6th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution by permitting California state court judges at sentencing to impose enhanced sentenced based on their determination of facts neither found by the jury nor admitted by the defendant; and Carey v. Musladin, reviewing the 9th Circuit's decision to overturn a murder conviction of a defendant who claimed he was denied a fair trial because the victim's relatives appeared in court wearing buttons with the deceased's picture on them.

«While the court accepts the importance of police in society, an officer, like all citizens is not above the law,» says Rosen, a veteran of murder trials and appeals.

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«The trial judge erred in law by holding that the common law defence of duress was not available to persons charged as parties to a murder,» says the appeal ruling in R. v. Aravena.

«The Crown conceded the conviction appeal as the facts presented to the trial judge do not support the plea to second degree murder,» said Morgan, in a statement sent to APTN National News.