Sentences with phrase «judges and juries about»

The series of hearings will determine whether he faces life in prison or the death penalty, a decision to be made after family and friends testify to judge and jury about their interactions with the mystery man.

But if our clients were under the influence of drugs or alcohol in a setting where that was OK and not a violation of the law, then we will look at the case and be honest with the judge and jury about whether that makes the individual comparatively at fault for what happened to them.

Not exact matches

«The US government acted as police force (identifying the foreign government's crime), prosecutor (making the legal arguments), jury (ruling on the evidence), and judge (sentencing the foreigner to US retaliatory punishment),» Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the pro-free trade Peterson Institute for International Economics, wrote in a memo about Section 301's history earlier in August.

U.S. District Court Judge Kiyo Matsumoto called the woman into the courtroom and questioned her about the supposed account of the jury's secret deliberations.

General District Judge Dean Worcester said the legal standard for establishing probable cause to send the case to a grand jury is low, and that arguments about planted evidence are better suited for trial.

Most of the actual heresy trials, without judge and jury, were about matters of personal morals.

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.

Liang's lawyers have already begun their appeals process, and plan to ask Judge Chun on Wednesday to toss the conviction after they say juror Michael Vargas lied about his family's history during jury selection.

On Thursday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Joan M. Azrack spent more than two hours giving instructions to the jury, reading aloud from 54 pages explaining the law and how jurors should go about considering each charge the defendants face.

Former Tory director general and ministerial adviser, Sir Paul Judge, has written in this morning's Sunday Times about Jury Team, the new political party he is launching.

He said the judge might have treated the instructions to the jury differently, and prosecutors «would have been even more careful» about making sure their summation and rebuttal arguments «completely conformed» with the court's new interpretation of the federal theft of honest services law.

Like ALL employees (in both the public and private sectors), there's nothing unusual about your boss being both the judge AND jury when it comes to disciplining employeand private sectors), there's nothing unusual about your boss being both the judge AND jury when it comes to disciplining employeAND jury when it comes to disciplining employees.

Silver's lawyers, while entering a not guilty plea for him on Tuesday before U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni, argued that Bharara broke rules about what prosecutors can say outside court and may have prejudiced the grand jury that indicted Silver.

The judge noted that Ortt said in his grand jury testimony that he was approached in 2008 by Maziarz, then a politically potent GOP senator, along with Bill Patton and Wojtaszek about running for North Tonawanda mayor.

After U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni ordered them to keep working for a second time Monday, the jury asked about returning a partial verdict Tuesday morning, and then delivered it an hour later.

But it was clear late on Thursday, with the parties and the judge seated around a conference table and the jury not present, that Mr. McDonald and Mr. Kry had critical roles as legal specialists in the case — «the law guys,» as several experts put it — a role the public rarely hears about.

Two hours after the jury started deliberating the case, a juror sent a letter to the judge complaining about how miserable the whole thing was making them: «I am wondering if there is anyway I can be excused from this case, because I have a different opinion / view so far in this case and it is making me feel very, very uncomfortable.

When it comes to making decisions about innocence and guilt, the human brain acts as both judge and jury.

It will be an ensemble drama about a team of Judges — futuristic cops invested with the power to be judge, jury, and executioner — as they deal with the challenges the future - shocked 22nd century throws at them.

The plan is to make the series an ensemble drama about a team of Judges — futuristic cops invested with the power to be judge, jury, and executioner — as they deal with the challenges the future - shocked 22nd century throws at them.

She talked about her time as a crime scene investigator, a dispatcher, and a judge's clerk for a judge who presided over a Grand Jury.

Along with nominations for titles like «Fallout 4» and «Super Mario Maker» came a bit of detail about the panel of judges who helped select them: A roster of the 32 people on the jury appears to list only one woman.

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What's a judge and jury to think about causality, much less an alleged nuisance and remedy?

Judge Fontaine ruled out use of the «necessity» defense prior to the trial, and she also would not allow me to inform the jury about factors affecting Foster's state of mind and his action.

Also, the judge is within his rights to punish the potential juror if he determines that the potential juror is actually lying about his ability to be impartial in an effort to evade jury service rather than because he sincerely believes that he can't be fair, and judges have wide authority to determine the credibility and truthfulness of statements made to him in open court (i.e. if the trial judge finds that you are lying, this determination will almost always be honored by an appellate court considering the judge's actions).

Thus, lawyers from the public defender service have been asking judges to allow them to examine court data on jury pools — and this month, D.C. Superior Court Judge Boasberg ruled that the defense is entitled to information about how jurors are identified and summoned.

Despite including the phrase «These rules apply to jurors the same as they apply to the parties and to me,» in an admonition to the jury about social media usage during trial, Texas Judge Michelle Slaughter disregarded her own warning while presiding over the hotly contested «boy in the box» case of 2015.

The survey was designed to collect data about the judge, the court staff, the court facilities, the jury instructions, and the attorneys and asked for both objective ratings and subjective observations.

A jury this week convicted a judge in Washington state of patronizing a prostitute and threatening to kill another man who talked about having sex with him.

«The case is one of a rising number nationally in which jurors have used iPhones, BlackBerrys and home computers to gather and send information about cases, undermining judges and jury trials,» writes Courier - Journal reporter Andrew Wolfson.

Even if the private prosecutor's conduct falls short of the high threshold needed to establish an abuse of process, the defence should still gather material about his conduct which might colour the perceptions of the Judge and jury.

[3] Another way to increase similarity between your litigation team and the jury is to mirror body language by subtly matching the judge's or jurors» postures and gestures to make them feel more at ease and positive about you because you seem more like them.

Considering what a mess the Monday testimony and lawyer argument on the effect of the new claim construction was (because, frankly, both parties had previously hedged their bets as they didn't know what the appeals court would do), the jury is probably now very confused about it (and Judge Koh did the right thing by denying both parties» motions for judgment as a matter of law since there are reasonable arguments for and against infringement, for and against validity).

All are welcome to share their knowledge and experience about what works in communicating with judges and juries.»

Because your tone doesn't fit the case that the judge and the jury are learning about, they will soon start doubting your honesty, sincerity, and competence.

I paid about 4 dollars for the jury fee, and the judge allowed me to «serve» them via certified mail so that cost me 6 or 7 dollars.

Answer: Doing so will probably get you kicked off of the jury, plus at least a lecture from the judge about violating your oath as a juror, a $ 250.00 fine, and a court order to go home and write a five - page essay on the importance of the Sixth Amendment.

We talked about these problems, and also about one of the proposed solutions: virtual trials, which could eliminate the effect of bias by presenting a jury with neutral avatars in place of the judge, parties, and lawyers.

Judges are also offered training to help them ask the right questions about an expert's qualifications or a peer - reivewed study, so that they can cull irrelevant evidence from the record and determine whether evidence is scientifically reliable and ultimately helpful to juries.

Though I won't credit all my whining about the need for the Supreme Court to start addressing all the important issues left unresolved by Blakely and Booker (see, e.g., here and here), I will celebrate the big news coming from Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog that the Court today granted cert in «a significant sequel to its series of rulings on the roles of judges and juries in criminal sentencing» by accepting for review «the issue of whether a violation of the jury's role in sentencing can ever be excused as «harmless error.»»

And there's also this apt post by Anne Reed of Deliberations, about whether a judge is required to strike his own mother from the jury.

«You're not doing the job for your client if you're not zealous to a fault, but you're not an effective advocate for them if you go before the judge and jury and get in trouble because you're not forthcoming enough about discovery,» says Duffy.

When you are involved in a divorce or family law matter, you can take your difference to a judge and jury and ask someone else to make a decision about child custody and visitation, child support, alimony and the division of marital property.

Both the judge and jury will be more likely to agree with you if you sound like you know what you're talking about.

That means being honest with the judge, opposing counsel, oftentimes the insurance company representative (which I have found is always the person behind the scenes controlling the money decisions and is the reason the case is going to trial; the powerful decision - maker who the judge and jury never meet or even get to know about), and most importantly, the jury.

Courtroom technique books and blogs are riddled with suggestions about how to be innovative in your efforts to sell your client's story to a judge and jury.

A long history of thinking about the role of juries has led to the rules we have — deliberate only amongst the jury with information selected by the advocates and vetted by the judge.

Among judges who do not permit attorneys to use social media during the jury selection process, the most common reasons were concerns about logistics and the privacy of jurors.

There is not one shred of doubt, however, about the Framers» paradigm for criminal justice: not the civil - law ideal of administrative perfection, but the common - law ideal of limited state power accomplished by strict division of authority between judge and jury.