Sentences with phrase «judges and juries on»

Now they want banks to sit as judge and jury on the case and bar individuals from using debit cards to subscribe to overseas porn.

The character is a man who's spent his entire life killing people, protecting his own, or destroying the lives of others, as he became a judge and jury on his own time.

That is the number one key; the second is that you should not agree to handle a case that you are not willing to stand in front of a judge and jury on.

RPC's expert reports and expert witness testimony educate the parties, the judge and the jury on the issues we have been asked to address.

Not exact matches

A federal jury found Edwards not guilty on one count of violating campaign finance rule, and the judge declared a mistrial on the five remaining criminal charges.

Winners are found this way: First, the Product of the Year Canada jury carefully selects the finalists — that is, products that meet or exceed innovation standards — which are then categorized and judged by an online survey, on behalf of Rogers Insights and conducted by TNS, of thousands of regular Canadian shoppers.

But it's also worth considering that an employer who fires an employee simply based on the wrongdoing itself is effectively imposing a penalty — acting like judge, jury, and executioner — without any of the due - process protections that accompany a criminal trial.

«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.

So anyone who sits on jury and condemns someone to death, the judge that imposes the sentence, the guards working in the jail and anyone else who is involved in executing prisoners is going to hell?

I can't speak for others, but if I was ever on a jury judging a child that was forced to endure this nonsense who then decided to disembowel one of these clowns and use his entrails to make haggis, I could not in good faith ever vote to convict him of anything.

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?

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.

When he was tried in Charlotte, North Carolina, in August on multiple counts of fraud and conspiracy, I judged him guilty long before the jury had, and when Judge Bob Potter gave him 45 years in prison and a half - million - dollar fine, my instinctive reaction was, good, he deserved it.

Absolutely, it does make sense to at least 6 billion people on earth including but not limited to professionals and the elite such as Doctors, Scientists, Juries, Judges, Magistrates, Politicians, even by the person who holds the highest position of the most powerful country of the world.

Ahead of the 30th Awards for Packaging Innovation, organised by DowDuPont, chair of the judging panel David Luttenberger, global packaging director at Mintel Group, shares his perspectives on the renowned competition and on packaging innovation itself with fellow jury member Tim Sykes.

Ahead of DowDuPont's 30th Awards for Packaging Innovation chair of the judging panel David Luttenberger, global packaging director at Mintel, shares his perspectives on the competition and packaging innovation itself with fellow jury member Tim Sykes more

Kane acted after Superior Court Judge Eugene Kelly, who has been sitting and will continue to sit in Hartford as a special one - man grand jury, heard testimony on widespread corruption in the sport.

If the Judge applied democractic decision - making, he would bring the jury back today, and let them decide on the punishment.

«I then did what a federal judge does when a jury is deadlocked and issued an Alan charge trying to get them to move on their positions.

A list of the questions asked by the jury to the judge includes one example in which they asked if a juror can «come to a verdict based on a reason that was not presented in court and has no facts or evidence to support it».

«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.

Jury selection will take a day to complete on Monday and opening statements will be Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Joan Azrack said.

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.

«All those who have had any involvement in this case, including the jury and the judge, have, however, been prepared to recognise that here was an exemplary teacher, in a fragile mental state, brought to breaking point by a number of critical failures on the part of his employer.

On all floors are judges» chambers, jury deliberation rooms, prisoner cells and conference rooms.

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.

The judge in the case noted that Silver took a «number of official acts — most obviously passing legislation and approving state grants and tax - exempt financing — as part of a quid pro quo, but there remained a «substantial question» on whether the court's jury instructions were valid in light of the McDonnell ruling.

Savino, throughout his time on the witness stand, often would direct his comments directly to the jury — and sometimes, in sweeping the courtroom with his eyes and with hand gestures, up toward the judge.

The two alternatives now are to 1) appoint a new jury and conduct a mini-trial before it goes to decide on the penalty (which could take months); or 2) the judge could get the prosecutors to agree to forgo the death penalty; and the judge could unilaterally impose life w / o parole or life, with parole after 25 yrs.

The Westchester and suburban New York City connections were underscored on Monday during the day - long jury selection process, when Judge Vincent Briccetti provided a long list of names that may come up during the trial.

Forty - eight hours before the trial started, without any advance notice to Judge Fiorella or Officer Hassett, and without providing Officer Hassett the opportunity to testify before the grand jury, the District Attorney's Office obtained an indictment on the same exact misdemeanor charges.»

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.

In 2015, another jury found him guilty on all counts, and Judge Valerie Caproni sentenced the former Assembly Speaker to 12 years in prison.

A New York federal judge ruled Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son can stay free on bail while appealing their convictions on corruption charges, saying jury instructions in their trial could be flawed in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Thursday that Judge Kaye «believed in the fundamental promise of equal rights for all New Yorkers, and dedicated herself to strengthening our judicial system and our juries.»

Valerie E. Caproni, the presiding judge in Federal District Court, kept lawyers and prospective jurors at the courthouse late on Monday in order to ensure that jury selection did not take too long.

Judge and best - selling author Constance Briscoe faces prison after a jury found her guilty on Thursday of intending to pervert the course of justice in the Chris Huhne speeding points scandal.

Still, the judge argued there was no proof that Mr. Bharara's commentary prompted the grand jury to decide to indict Mr. Silver on charges of mail fraud, wire fraud and extortion for earning referral fees from two law firms toward whom he directed clients with business before the state.

U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni has noted throughout the trial that the government's case is built almost entirely on circumstantial evidence, and her instructions to the jury will go a long way in determining how jurors come to assess Silver.

Chicago, Illinois (CNN)- A federal jury weighing the fate of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in his corruption trial told the judge on Thursday it has reached unanimous agreement on two of the 24 counts, but can not agree on 11 others and has yet to consider the rest.

«We have deliberated and have reached unanimous agreement on two counts and haven't been able to come to an agreements on the rest of the counts,» the jury told U.S. District Judge James Zagel.

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.

Another indictment in the shooting death of Ramarley Graham in 2012 was tossed by a judge on technical grounds and a second jury voted not to indict.

A federal jury announced the guilty verdict on four counts of theft but could not reach a unanimous agreement on four additional counts of theft, fraud and conspiracy, leading Judge Frederic Block to declare a mistrial on those counts.

Jones said lawyers, judges and juries certainly could benefit from scientific insights on such perennial legal questions as: Was the defendant responsible for the criminal behavior?

Witness the current popularity of forensics and the confidence that judges and juries are placing on DNA evidence.

In our legal system, judges and juries have to assign responsibility for crimes and decide on appropriate punishments.

In other words, judges and juries were sometimes sending people to jail based on bogus science.