Sentences with phrase «in jury cases»

Expert evidence has the real potential to swallow whole the fact - finding function of the court, especially in jury cases.

To try to bring more consistency between judge and jury awards, the courts decided that in jury cases a judge should give guidance to the jury, suggesting an award for loss of society within an appropriate range of figures.

[7] Usually this matter, in jury cases, is left until all of the evidence has been heard.

I litigated personal injuries cases for 25 years, and litigated hundreds of knee in jury cases.

The Crown should ask the trial judge to reconsider the Corbett ruling so that the jury (or trial judge in a judge - alone trial) gets a fair and complete picture.209 Similarly, in a jury case, a defence strategy centred on an attack on the credibility of the victim can affect an accused's successful Corbett application, potentially opening up his or her entire criminal record to cross-examination for credibility purposes.210

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.

In more than 25 years of practice, he has tried 20 federal criminal and civil cases, almost all to juries that returned verdicts.

Dooley discusses what a difficult time lawyers have in persuading the jury during a tough case, and the comparison he makes to your typical «car salesman» is spot on:

Between 2005 - 2009, prosecutors in Houston County, Alabama had excluded 80 % of blacks who qualified for jury service on death penalty cases.

Biotechnology entrepreneur William Ardrey faces a retrial on fraud charges after Western Australia's Court of Appeal found the jury had been misdirected in the original court case.

It appears none of Shkreli's hedge fund investors actually lost money in the end, but he was so widely reviled by the time of his trial that it was difficult to find an unbiased jury to hear the case.

That is to say, the court will decide whether the «beyond a reasonable doubt» clause applies when a jury is deciding whether capital punishment should even be considered in a case, not just when it's applied.

Florida's state Supreme Court ruled that a defendant in a capital case doesn't have the right to have a jury determine that.

Spartanburg attorney Michael Morin, who opposed Gowdy in a death penalty case and later worked for him in the prosecutor's office, said Gowdy excelled at appealing to a jury's emotions.

In March, two judges ruled Liss - Riordan's Uber and Lyft cases will go to a trial by jury.

Legal experts say a defense attorney's task to convince a jury that a client is legally insane is even more difficult in cases like that of Routh, who confessed to killing the men, apologized to the family and fled from police.

«The jury in this case will be handed a square peg and asked to choose between two round holes,» he wrote.

The Village Voice would have been equally offensive to a jury in Tampa [where the case was tried] 40 years ago, but it would not have been read by people on a Tampa jury.

In the Hulk Hogan case, which was also based on an invasion of privacy claim, Harder sued Gawker Media for publishing a clip from a sex video that the former wrestler made with a friend's wife, and won a $ 140 million judgment from a Florida jury.

Even if a jury finds that Uber stole Waymo trade secrets, Uber says in court filings that its engineers have designed around the Waymo technology at issue in the case.

«Merck believes the jury's verdict accurately reflects the evidence in this case,» said the company in a statement.

David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the law firm that argued the largest - ever employment gender discrimination case to go to trial — a class action suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals that resulted in a $ 253 million jury award for plaintiffs in 2010, reduced post-trial to $ 175 million — noted that in that case, the company had just three investigators for a workforce of thousands.

Here's something you may not know about court cases: There are often people in the public gallery who are paid to closely watch the members of the jury to see how they react to different witnesses.

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.

It's tricky to select a jury that won't be biased when the court case involves one of the biggest bands in the world.

I wouldn't say that a finding by the jury of infringement in this case is going to open up the door to a lot more similar cases being filed against Led Zeppelin per se.

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.

Coinbase has lost another appeal in a case brought by former customers of the defunct exchange Cryptsy, and the case will now proceed to a jury trial.

The judge in the case, William Alsup, and the jury that has yet to be selected have a difficult task ahead of them as they eventually work to determine whether Uber is guilty of misappropriating trade secrets.

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Since those motions were denied, the case is set to be argued before a jury in state court later this summer.

Coinbase has lost another appeal in a lawsuit brought by former customers of the defunct cryptocurrency exchange Cryptsy, and the case will now proceed to a jury trial.

In the case of the SEC's investigation, the jury is still out.

For the last several years, Mr. Denton has been the target of a lawsuit brought by the wrestler Hulk Hogan in the now - infamous defamation case over Gawker's publication of a sex tape — an editorial choice that recently resulted in a $ 140 million jury award to Mr. Hogan.

Hulk Hogan, center, won a $ 140 million jury award in his defamation case against Gawker over the publication of a sex tape.

Nevertheless, McGowan could face indictment in Virginia on a felony drug - possession charge after a judge found probable cause Thursday to send the case to a grand jury.

In the Brock Adams case, the Seattle Times was prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner.

Looks like the jury in this case just added to the US unemployment problem!

Skip If that's where you rest your case for believing in God then it should be easy for you to understand why plenty of us on the jury just aren't convinced.

As one who sat on a jury in a murder case in a state that is not shy about executions, I am aware of how important it is to make sure the right person is convicted.

All of the clergy in the courtroom project have agreed to support the jury's verdict in the racially - charged case, which sparked large rallies and marches led by civil rights figures like the Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

There just plain wasn't enough evidence to support either side's version of events, in which case a jury must acquit.

In the case of these Catholic priests who did just that, they should be made to stand before a judge and jury for thier actions.

A jury at the Old Bailey in central London has retired to consider its verdicts in the case of a former abbot accused of sexually abusing boys at a Catholic school in west London.

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.

John Kennedy repeatedly appointed segregationist judges to the federal bench in the South, and the civil rights case that Robert Kennedy most vigorously prosecuted involved charges brought against Albany, Georgia, activists for violating the rights of a white storeowner by boycotting his business because he had served on a jury that cleared the sheriff who had shot a black man three times in the neck at point - blank range.

If Phelps and his co-defendants are liable for the intentional infliction of emotional distress in this case, what is to prevent another judge and jury from ordering monetary damages in a case against the owners of the proposed Islamic community center near ground zero for inflicting emotional distress on the families of 9/11 victims?

«However, I intend to do so before an independent Tribunal, not before yourselves acting as a judge and jury in your own case.

Like a jury in a court case listening to witnesses, we should ask if politicians in their tweets are telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth (or as much as you can in 280 characters).

If I couldn't be trusted to judge innocence or guilt in that litigation, what was the likelihood that I would be seated on a jury in a murder case?