Sentences with phrase «jurors on»

The most common strategy is incorporating social media use into jury instructions -LRB-...) Also common are the practice of reminding jurors on a regular basis not to use social media to communicate during trial or deliberations, explaining the reasons behind the ban on social media, and confiscating electronic devices in the courtroom.

The prosecutor may not rebut a prima facie showing by stating that he challenged the jurors on the assumption that they would be partial to the defendant because of their shared race or by affirming his good faith in individual selections.

The prospective jurors on the list are mailed a summons requiring them to report for jury service at a specified time and place.

The Chief Judge recognized that there has always been a problem in patent litigation in that the average jurors on patent cases are simply not familiar with the intricacies of patent law and that educating them is a burden for the federal judges that handle patent cases.

In a high - stakes copyright fight pitting two Silicon Valley tech giants — Oracle and Google — against each other earlier this year, the presiding judge found the dangers of researching potential jurors on the internet outweighed any potential benefit in that case.

Most lawyers want to know as much as possible about the jurors on their case.

FIJA educates jurors on their legal function to veto bad government laws, and teaches that individuals can protect human rights when called for jury duty.

Thus, the plaintiff's lawyer will question the potential jurors on their feelings about lawsuits and people who sue.

Tips to help persuade jurors on openings, closings, cross-examination, direct examination and jury selection.

Of the 466 judges who responded, 120 said they prohibit researching prospective jurors on social media during jury selection.

The problem of jurors on social media is not theoretical.

Proposed Rule 226a would change the mandatory instructions that trial judges would give to potential jurors on a panel, and to the jury once selected, in several ways.

But he managed to pull off a victory in the end, embracing jurors on the courthouse steps following Fieger's acquittal, according to The Detroit News.

Lord Bingham maintained that while Parliament could not have intended that CPS lawyers should sit as jurors on cases brought by their own authority (even though Parliament chose not to state this expressly) there would be no objection to their sitting on cases prosecuted by other agencies — leaving CPS lawyers in the seemingly unique position of being theoretically eligible for jury service but in practice barred from sitting on the vast majority of cases brought in England and Wales, which is hardly a satisfactory state of affairs.

Abney, thus, suggests that the trial judge is powerless to instruct the jurors on the lesser - included offense in the absence of a request by the defendant.

After the episode ended, she innocently asked if I ever try and educate jurors on the problems with eyewitness identification, especially those with someone from one race trying to identify a person from another.

Craig Kennedy found the the jurors on a list online and named them: Quentin Tarantino, (President), Kathleen Turner, Tsui Hark, Peter Von Bagh, among others, and Tilda Swinton.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Raymond Tierney told jurors on Tuesday the case is about «corruption and greed at the highest levels.»

The appeals court said the trial judge would need to instruct jurors on the law differently to conform with a 2016 Supreme Court decision reversing the public corruption conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

The appeals court said that the trial judge would need to instruct jurors on the law in a different manner to conform with a 2016 Supreme Court decision that reversed the public corruption conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

The Appeals Court said the trial judge would need to instruct jurors on the law to conform with a 2016 Supreme Court decision.

During the White Plains federal corruption trial of Smith, former Councilman Dan Halloran (R - Queens) and former Queens GOP Executive Vice Chair Vincent Tabone, jurors on Wednesday heard a secretly taped conversation where Halloran laid out the king - making plan.

From the massive amount of paperwork already filed in the case, it is clear that prosecutors are going to take jurors on a lengthy walk through the gritty side of how state government in Albany works.

«This is not about whether the political beliefs of the BNP are right or wrong,» he told jurors on Thursday.

His statement recalled a conversation secretly recorded in 2015 on an FBI body wire and played as evidence for jurors on March 29.

Showing some of the complexities of a case — which includes jurors having to decide whether actions Percoco took constituted «official acts» — Caproni wrote 44 pages of instructions she read to jurors on Thursday in the lower Manhattan courtroom.

Judge Joan M. Azrack, in addressing a room full of prospective jurors on Monday, let it be known that they'd been selected as representatives of one of the largest federal district court jurisdictions in the nation, covering Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Nassau and Suffolk counties.

Defense lawyers have sought to make the trial into a referendum for jurors on Howe; his name came up hundreds of times over the past two days of closing arguments by lawyers from the four defense teams.

A juror on the Bill Cosby sexual assault retrial case says the comedian's own words sealed his fate.

Another of Mr. Silver's lawyers, Joel Cohen, told the judge at a sidebar conference that a male juror on the panel had been observed talking to someone inside an NBC News truck near the courthouse.

This juror «no longer wish [ed] to participate as a juror on this case.

Along with her work in public programming, she was also a juror on local and national art competitions.

Judge Seated Juror Who Declared Defendant Guilty Before Trial Jose Felipe Velasco insists Orange County Judge David A. Hoffer cheated him out of a fair trial by placing a juror on the supposedly neutral citizen's panel after she repeatedly declared the defendant guilty before hearing any evidence.

(7) The judge presiding at a trial may discharge a juror on the ground of illness, hardship, partiality or other sufficient cause.

Not exact matches

Prosecutors in capital cases often use these to dismiss jurors because of their views on the death penalty.

That meant attorneys had the hard task of selecting jurors without significant ties to the marathon or too much knowledge of the crime — on top of ones who didn't already oppose the death penalty.

Levitt, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a former US intelligence agent, told jurors he did not know if the materials found on Tsarnaev's computer, including sermons by US - born Al Qaeda figure Anwar al - Awlaki and issues of Al Qaeda's «Inspire» magazine, were put there by Tsarnaev or by someone else, such as his brother.

The hope is that jurors who understand the case as best as possible will rely more on the facts than their own, biased opinions during deliberation.

Those who knew Gowdy during his 16 years as a state and federal prosecutor in South Carolina say he also has a gift of the gab and a willingness to tug on jurors» heartstrings.

The judge in charge of the John Edwards trial is telling jurors to «go back to work» on deliberating the case, CNN's Jeffrey Toobin reported.

He said that for the retrial, the defense focused less on mental health records and experts and more on getting jurors to see into the mind of the woman who Parnham said drowned her children because she thought that if she didn't they would be taken by Satan.

These pro-death penalty jurors also tend to share opinions on other matters, University of Miami law professor Scott Sundby told Green.

The legal background is complicated, but the gist of it is that Gawker would likely win the case — but for the fact the trial is taking place in Hogan's hometown, and in front of jurors who are unlikely to look kindly on New York - based Gawker and its Oxford - educated founder, Nick Denton.

Nor did she meet with incredulity the jurors» decision to convict Black on three counts of fraud, and one of obstruction of justice — however fervently Black may have desired it.

In a closing statement on Thursday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Eun Young Choi reviewed numerous text messages, emails and voice recordings presented to jurors during the four - week trial, which she said proved that Lebedev and Gross acted with «corrupt intent.»

The Judicial Conference of the United States has previously attributed the ban on cameras in federal courts to the «intimidating effect of cameras on some witnesses and jurors.»

The decision came more than two hours after jurors failed to cast the votes needed to deliver a verdict on all the lawsuit's claims.

During the monthlong trial, jurors watched video from Garcia Zarate's four - hour police interrogation, in which he offered varying statements about his actions on the pier.

Some legal analysts said this move may have signaled to jurors that these victims were divided on the death penalty.

Bill Cosby's 2005 admission that he drugged women to have sex with them was the most compelling piece of evidence leading a Pennsylvania jury to finding him guilty of sexual assault, one of the jurors told ABC's «Good Morning America» on Monday.