Sentences with phrase «jurors take»

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One juror was excused on Monday morning for a family emergency, and an alternate juror took her place.

the juror took on the role of reporter: «from a 12 x 20 jury room with excellent wifi, Juror # 5 reporting live»

On the other hand, the lawyer for the Boushie family, Chris Murphy, has said ``... the jurors took an oath to render a fair and just verdict.

«Based on the evidence, the jurors took an oath to render a fair and just verdict.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Each juror forms an opinion very quickly once a witness takes the stand, usually very quickly.

Not only we had a ball at Coffee Fest Chicago, we also took home the top notable awards of the year - «Best New Product Award» in Consumables, voted by expert jurors of the coffee world, and «People's Choice Award», voted by all Coffee Fest attendees across the categories!

But when an older lady in a wheel chair takes the stand and starts crying not many jurors will be sympathetic towards Bennett who was wrong from the get go.

Early in the trial, jurors watched a videotape of the birth taken by a family friend that documented in graphic detail the birth and death of Spencer Verzi.

If jurors find a defendant guilty of murder, they can take testimony about postpartum issues into consideration during the trial's punishment phase.

It took jurors less than 90 minutes to reach a verdict in the eight - week corruption trial of ex-NYC Councilman Dan Halloran that was marked by delays, a mistrial for a co-defendant — state Sen. Malcolm Smith — and several juror dismissals for personal reasons.

A once - prominent cancer doctor, Robert Taub, took the witness stand at Sheldon Silver's corruption retrial yesterday, telling jurors he was lured into a corrupt scheme by the former head of the state Assembly within days of meeting him in 2003.

In 2015, however, it took jurors only three days to reject that defense, and experts say publicity about Albany corruption has hardly abated since then.

Lawyer James Branden told the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that when Boyland was convicted in 2014 of overlapping schemes to take cash from undercover agents to help them with a carnival permit and a real estate project, the judge gave jurors too broad a definition of the type of promised acts that the Supreme Court says would be a crime.

At one point, jurors sent out a note seeking more information from witness Laura Spence, an FBI special agent who took notes of interviews with Linda Mangano.

It didn't take long for the first pair of notes to emerge — one of which said Juror No. 2 had been selected as the group's foreman.

Judge Valerie Caproni told jurors that they could take Wednesday off for a snow day, but they are to come back on Thursday and continue deliberating.

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.

Molo opened his summation with the legal instructions Caproni gave jurors when the trial began Nov. 3: that actions could be taken to «cultivate goodwill, or to cultiave a relationship with the entity that provided the benefit, and not in exchange for any official act» without constituting honest services fraud.

Within a minute of Lacewell taking the stand, prosecutors, seeking to put a face on who they were about to talk about with Lacewell, showed jurors a large image of Cuomo on a screen in the courtroom.

To wit, Goldstein used a PowerPoint presentation offering 16 reasons that jurors should «know» what was going on in Silver's mind — even though Silver did not take the witness stand, and even though witnesses said there was never any explicitly articulated exchange of favors for cash.

A once - prominent cancer doctor took the witness stand at Sheldon Silver's corruption retrial Monday, telling jurors he was lured into a corrupt scheme by the former head of the state Assembly within days of meeting him in 2003.

«Good morning, good morning,» Azrack, as she usually does, said as jurors walked in to take their seats.

John Haggerty was acquitted of the top charge against him, first - degree grand larceny, because the jury wasn't convinced he'd taken the full $ 1.1 million, some jurors said after the verdict.

Indeed, the court said the definition of «official act» that jurors received at the Silver trial was way too broad, since it encompassed «any action taken or to be taken under color of official authority.»

The jurors quickly asked for various pieces of evidence, transcripts of testimony, tapes and even a whiteboard, which will take time to compile.

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.

After Percoco returned to the state payroll in December 2014, following Cuomo's re-election, prosecutors showed jurors what they insisted were official acts that Percoco took on behalf of Cor.

«I believe he was guilty of taking bribes in exchange for setting up the meetings with the county chairs,» said the juror, a 26 - year - old man from Duchess County who was dismissed because he could no longer serve on the lengthy trial.

Those were the two narratives presented to jurors today in the Manhattan federal courthouse where Mr. Silver, still an assemblyman and once among the three most powerful men in the state, is standing trial on charges of honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering for allegedly taking more than $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks.

Goldstein told jurors that Silver took extraordinary measures to hide his scheme, including hiding money he earned by placing it under his wife's name, lying to the press and lying to the firms involved in the scam.

Jurors in the bribery trial of a former aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo were told to take Wednesday off to wait out a storm after the jury foreman revealed deliberations were at an impasse and three jurors asked to be excused.

«It's really kind of offensive that Amir Rizvi would take advantage of people's post-9 / 11 fears and (demand) the release of a terrorist so he could get his wife in trouble,» she told jurors.

Wills took cash from New York 4 - Life, which is also against the rules of the nonprofit, Morrissey told Queens Supreme Court jurors.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Jurors in the bribery trial of a former aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo were told to take Wednesday off to wait out a storm after the jury foreman revealed deliberations were at an impasse and three jurors asked to be excused.

The agent, known to jurors as «Raj,» shot back, «He took cash from us.

It did not take long for jurors to send a note to the judge.

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.

Another juror was dismissed from the jury pool after writing on her questionnaire, «I despise people, especially elected officials who take bribes and kickbacks,» Wood said

Treinis Gatz said that the prosecution's opening witness, Singh, who will be on the stand Thursday, would take jurors «inside the corrupt Nassau County political machine.»

«There are incidents due to people's hardships when we are willing to give leeway,» said Amer, who cited one case where a potential juror said he was in jeopardy of losing his job if he had to take time off work to serve.

The presiding judge, Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court, told jurors at the outset of the trial that the government must prove that Mr. Silver knowingly participated in a scheme to defraud and «received things of value in the form of bribes or kickbacks, and that he knew when he accepted those things he was expected, in exchange, to take official action as the opportunity arose.»

Mr. D'Amato told the jurors he went to see Senator Skelos, so he could «understand what was taking place, so that he might be able to remedy it.»

Juror Julie Gardner, a Glens Falls mother of three and operator at an insurance company call center, said the Legislature needs to take a serious look at whether part - time duty to the public makes sense if outside work presents conflicts.

«He said that he was upset or angry that it took a couple of weeks from when a check was issued to when it reached his mail,» Klein told jurors in Manhattan federal court.

It did not take long for jurors to send a note to the judge — after 40 minutes, the forewoman asked for the testimony of nine witnesses, as well as various pieces of evidence, transcripts of testimony, tapes, and even a white board.

Though nearly all the jurors had made up their minds at the beginning of deliberations, Ms. Phillips and Ms. Maynard said, the 12 took their time re-examining the evidence.

In a 90 - minute closing argument, Christopher P. Conniff, a defense lawyer, told jurors that the case against State Senator Dean G. Skelos and his son, Adam, amounted to little more than distractions, snippets of conversations taken out of context, and self - serving lies from two central witnesses.