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Problem was, they slotted us in to speak to the committee when the actual deadline for amendments to the Bill has passed — a bit like being called to testify at a trial after the jury has already started deliberating.

How could McLain have gotten a fair trial, Levine asked, when the judge had allowed jurors to stand in the jury box, eating food and drinking coffee during testimony?

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Last week the first of those cases went to the jury for deliberations and in the second case, a trial was averted when a former legislator pleaded guilty.

Earlier this week a judge ruled that a veil - wearing woman could be forced to remove the veil in front of himself and the jury when giving evidence, but that she could remain covered for the rest of the trial.

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.»

Former New York state Sen. Majority Leader Dean Skelos was sitting in his own public - corruption trial Monday afternoon when he learned that a federal jury across the street convicted his longtime colleague, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, of trading his political influence for financial gain.

When Lara Frumkin, then at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, set up mock trials using videotaped eyewitness testimony, the jury perceived the same person to be less credible if they spoke with a foreign accent (Psychology, Crime & Law, vol 13, p 317).

But make it a fantasy of celebrity and, in O.J.'s case, miscegenation, sexual jealousy, retribution, and so on... It wasn't about the trial, man, it was about the way narrate history; when the jury came back with exactly the wrong conclusion, it served to confirm that nothing that you see has anything to do with what's real.

It was clear the tobacco industry had met its match when the surgeon general made smoking a national health issue, when the mass media and entertainment industry abandoned the Marlboro man, when juries discovered that companies were responsible for the lungs of their consumers, and when powerful figures on Capitol Hill eschewed donations from tobacco magnates in favor of those contributed by trial lawyers who made billions from suing them.

I thought of that exchange when I read that jury selection is underway in Atlanta for an unusual trial.

In its post-trial motion seeking a judgment of acquittal or a new trial, defendant Trans Union, LLC («Trans Union») challenges the jury verdict finding that it had negligently and willfully violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681i («FCRA»), when it failed to remove an erroneous collection account from -LSB-...]

Four climate activists currently awaiting trial in Minnesota for shutting off a tar sands pipeline think so — and on Monday, the Minnesota Court of Appeals agreed that they should be allowed to make that argument before a jury when their case goes to trial.

When Oracle v. Google went to trial the first time, in 2012, the jury found in favor of Google on every patent claim.

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.

Blatchford's style for many years has been incisive, descriptive, graphic, and often ruthless when she (more often than not) reaches the conclusion (usually well in advance of the trial judge or jury) that your client is a fiendish monster.

Special preparation techniques before going to trial Before going to trial, the personal injury lawyers at Ketchmark and McCreight, P.C. like to invest extra time and money in the planning stages of any kind of personal injury claim, including vaginal mesh claims when necessary, and this is why we make use of mock juries and mock trials o help us test out different lines of arguments before using them for real in your case.

In civil cases that use sequestered juries, sequestration is not required during the trial itself, but begins when the jury has heard all the evidence and starts to deliberate.

The Court of Appeal held that the trial judge's only errors were in the wording of the question to the jury regarding causation, and that the trial judge stated he did not have jurisdiction to poll the jury when he did.

in Argersinger, the Court today retreats to the indefensible position that the Argersinger «actual imprisonment» standard is the only test for determining the boundary of the Sixth Amendment right to appointed counsel in state misdemeanor cases, thus necessarily deciding that, in many cases (such as this one), a defendant will have no right to appointed counsel even when he has a constitutional right to a jury trial.

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.

At Basta, we disrupted the system when we arrived because we started demanding jury trials in every case.

In a strongly worded dissent, Justice Michael Moldaver, also writing for Justice Suzanne Côté, found that «the majority has departed from the functional approach of threshold reliability by unduly restricting the extrinsic evidence that a jury could can consider when assessing a statement's substantive reliability and by adopting a narrow view of the procedural safeguards available at trial than can equip the jury with the tools it needs to assess the ultimate reliability of a statement.»

«Imagine my surprise when I discovered that my dues to the Kentucky Bar Association were being used, not only to heap insults on a significant segment of our membership — those of us who represent the injured — but also to take a pro-business position on tort reform to deprive the citizens in this Commonwealth of their constitutional right to a jury trial for their injury claims.»

He says: «When we go to trial we tell stories in a manner that will persuade 6 or 12 complete strangers - the Jury.

Can you recommend how I might evoke sympathy for my client defendants thereby securing their acquittals on their jury trials when, strictly speaking, they have no defence in law?

Our reputation for being able to present exceptional cases at trial has led to our being a law firm that other lawyers refer their clients to when their situation is especially challenging, or otherwise likely to result in a jury trial.

«We were very impressed with how Jeff DeFrancisco represented us at trial and we were extremely happy when the jury found in our favor.»

Even when it does not, the damages awarded the employee in arbitration are nearly always far less than in a jury trial, and an arbitrator's award against the employer is a private matter.

When your Complaint is filed, your lawyer will also specify whether you prefer a trial by jury or a «bench trial,» in which a judge makes most of the decisions.

When a person considers the court process, it is common for them to envision it in the traditional sense of judge, jury and trials.

«It follows that the new evidence that GHB occurs naturally in wine, and that it occurred naturally in this brand and vintage of wine, when taken with the other evidence adduced at trial, was sufficiently cogent that it could reasonably be expected to have affected the jury's willingness to act on the evidence of the complainants to convict.»

The Court's holding in Blakely extends a line of recent cases exploring the meaning of the right to a jury trial and establishes a readily understood principle for deciding what the right means and when it is being eroded.

Large law firms are also beginning to lose a generation of lawyers who actually practiced in a day when more cases went to jury trial.

Bloggers are free to report on other trials, in which they're not jurors, but they shouldn't attempt to be both judge and witness when called for jury duty.

(Order, p. 2) As the court notes in its summary of the order, an acquittal can issue either when a jury returns a not - guilty verdict, or «when a trial court grants a defendant's new trial motion for evidentiary insufficiency... or dismisses a case... for evidentiary insufficiency» (Id., pp. 2 — 3) The essence of the court's decision is in two parts: (1) The new trial motion should not have been granted because there was sufficient evidence to convict Mr. Stern on counts of conspiracy; and (2) Because the trial court did not rule on the majority of the issues raised in Stern's motion for a new trial, those issues have yet to be decided, and should be addressed on remand by the court of appeals.

Often, when a verdict is rendered in lieu of a settlement, the losing party will have to pay out considerably more money than in a settlement — because trials are expensive, and costs for putting on the trial, paying for the judge, the court reporter, the jury members» per diem, the bailiff and others, can mean even more financial pain.

Prevailed on behalf of Anheuser - Busch when a St. Louis City jury rejected Francine Katz's claims of gender discrimination after a 13 - day trial in Katz v. Anheuser - Busch.

Attorney John R. Orton successfully completed a 2 - week jury trial in Juneau County representing a Plaintiff who was severely injured when a semi-tractor trailer attempted to pass the Plaintiff as the Plaintiff attempted a turn.

So construed question of law would include (without attempting anything like an exhaustive definition which would be impossible) questions touching the scope, effect or application of a rule of law which the courts apply in determining the rights of parties; and by long usage, the term question of law has come to be applied to questions which, when arising at a trial by a judge and jury, would fall exclusively to the judge for determination.»

When presented at trial, they maximize the impact of evidence by presenting juries with facts in a format that is familiar to them and is easy to understand and retain.

When this is done, the prosecution proceeds directly to trial in the Court of Queen's Bench with a judge and jury.

Taking a case completely to trial is often done in only the most egregious accident cases because it gives a sympathetic jury an opportunity to award punitive damages along with compensatory claims, especially when an accident involved a drunk driver or speeding driver or a commercial vehicle.

This means that any offense would be a juvenile delinquency prosecution, which involves a secret trial without a jury, much shorter sentences for the same offenses (that would be served in a juvenile detention center rather than an adult jail or prison if incarceration was ordered), and the sealing of the record of the conviction when you become an adult.

«Costs rose when the county moved to a contract system [and there was also] a decline in the number of cases taken to jury trial, an increase in guilty pleas at first instance hearings, a decline in the filing of motions to suppress, a decline in requests for expert assistance, and an increase in complaints received by the court from defendants.»

Represented a deceased doctor in a motor vehicle v. motorcycle jury trial seeking damages for significant personal injuries sustained by the motorcycle rider when he was allegedly cut off by the deceased doctor.

That means we litigate cases in court, all the way to jury trial when necessary; we don't just settle cases quickly.

When the chips are on the table in a high stakes civil jury trial, Boyle Brasher LLC's experience and ability can make all the difference.

The jury in the trial before Judge Edward J. McDonough found Seubert, the attending physician, was negligent for his actions when Gutierrez went to Baystate Medical Center to give birth.