Sentences with phrase «juries view these cases»

Our Albuquerque truck accident attorneys are familiar with how local courts and juries view these cases, and are also knowledgeable with respect to which expert witnesses, if necessary, will most assist our clients.

Not exact matches

Heather Dietrick, Gawker's president and general counsel, presented a more hopeful view of the case to Capital, and suggested that the Florida jury would be moved by their argument that Hogan had turned his own sex life into a public spectacle long before Gawker published this tape.

«At the end of the prosecution and defence cases, six of the audience jury, including Jess, will be asked for their views on Hamlet's guilt or innocence - we look forward to hearing her take on the proceedings!

When the appeals court overturned Silver's corruption conviction, it said that many people would view the facts that came out in the case «with distaste,» but the instructions to the jury did not track with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in 2016 in a corruption case against former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

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.

In the three P2P cases tried so far, «all three of those juries demonstrated through the very large damages awards they imposed that they view illegal downloading and «sharing» as wrong, and deserving of harsh sanction.»

The Second Circuit acknowledged that sending trial materials home with jurors could increase the chance of exposing the jury to outside influences, and could overemphasize the significance of the indictment, which it called a «one - sided presentation of the prosecution's view of the case.»

Courts «view jury nullification as a pernicious element in the criminal justice system... the jury's official role in court proceedings is limited solely to judging the facts of the case and applying the law as given by the judge to those facts» (Travis Hreno, «Necessity and Jury Nullification» (2007) 20 CJLJ 351 at parajury nullification as a pernicious element in the criminal justice system... the jury's official role in court proceedings is limited solely to judging the facts of the case and applying the law as given by the judge to those facts» (Travis Hreno, «Necessity and Jury Nullification» (2007) 20 CJLJ 351 at parajury's official role in court proceedings is limited solely to judging the facts of the case and applying the law as given by the judge to those facts» (Travis Hreno, «Necessity and Jury Nullification» (2007) 20 CJLJ 351 at paraJury Nullification» (2007) 20 CJLJ 351 at para. 2)

In a court case with a jury, many of those selected may be unaware of the reasons for the defendant's actions, mainly because they are uncertain how much the condition impacts on that individual's view of the world.

Personally I struggle in thinking that a reasonable jury would be inflamed to such a degree by this statement that their whole view of the case would be unjustly prejudiced.

As a real - life example, the e-book examines in detail the recent high - stakes patent case between Apple and Samsung and takes a close look at the trial exhibits that both sides introduced, from the point of view of how convincing they were likely to be to a jury.

Libel lawyers might well take a more nuanced view than some press commentators of the news that Mr Justice Eady is to be replaced as the judge responsible for the Queen's Bench jury lists which hear the major defamation and privacy cases.

James Madison, the drafter of the Seventh Amendment, would be puzzled by how we allowed this to happen, given his view that «[t] rial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.»

The client's case may be prejudiced because the lawyer is unfavourably viewed by a jury; or a prospect of settlement may evaporate in the face of a lawyer's rigid posturing.

«Unfortunately, juries typically have an unfavorable view of motorcyclists, so we often consider that bias when we prepare a case pursuing damages in a personal injury lawsuit involving a motorcycle.

While there is no clear rule of law that a qualified identification standing alone will never amount to sufficient evidence of identification to support a committal to stand trial, in my view, when I consider the relevant case law, the qualified identification given by Mr. Crane, without some other evidence, is not sufficient evidence to amount to some evidence of identification that a properly instructed jury, acting reasonably, could convict on.

'' [i] t would probably be held, in view of cases such as... [that] the fact of such insurance could not be taken into consideration by the jury.

In the Stephan case, people will disagree on the verdict based on their own concept of parenting and strongly held beliefs but, accepting that the jury was properly instructed on the law, the finding of guilt would be based on a finding that in all of the circumstances, objectively viewed, the Stephans» conduct was a marked departure from that of the reasonably prudent parent.

(FWIW, my own view is that in criminal cases jury nullification is part and parcel of what a jury trial is all about.)

And what the outcome in the case is will often depend on what view the jury takes of the eye - witness evidence (i.e. which of the eye - witnesses it believes), and hence may have nothing to do with anything the Judge says.

If the other driver has said that they did not see the accident location, but the photo shows that they had a clear view of the accident location for up to 500 feet, the other driver will likely find it difficult to win the case because the jury and the insurer will believe that they could not have been paying attention.