Sentences with phrase «jury cases for»

Robin Meadow tried jury cases for over 20 years at a major commercial firm, while also handling appeals, in many fields of law.

Lawyers say a new pilot project at Toronto Region courts that will schedule personal injury jury cases for month - long sittings could have ripple effects that would disrupt other regions.

Not exact matches

«It's not infrequent grounds for a reversal... but there is a well - established case law on improperly selected juries.»

Between 2005 - 2009, prosecutors in Houston County, Alabama had excluded 80 % of blacks who qualified for jury service on death penalty cases.

Spartanburg attorney Michael Morin, who opposed Gowdy in a death penalty case and later worked for him in the prosecutor's office, said Gowdy excelled at appealing to a jury's emotions.

In the Hulk Hogan case, which was also based on an invasion of privacy claim, Harder sued Gawker Media for publishing a clip from a sex video that the former wrestler made with a friend's wife, and won a $ 140 million judgment from a Florida jury.

The prosecution, for its part, is expected to try and keep the jury's attention focused on Tsarnaev's specific crimes, according to David Hoose, a Northampton, Mass. attorney and an expert on death penalty cases.

While the USFL technically won the antitrust case, the jury concluded mismanagement was mostly at fault for its problems.

David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the law firm that argued the largest - ever employment gender discrimination case to go to trial — a class action suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals that resulted in a $ 253 million jury award for plaintiffs in 2010, reduced post-trial to $ 175 million — noted that in that case, the company had just three investigators for a workforce of thousands.

If both sides, through their eyes and their people's eyes, have concluded that the plaintiff is absolutely going to win this case, and the plaintiff is going to get a lot of money because they're totally on board with everything that has been presented, then that might be a good reason for the defendant to agree to a settlement with the plaintiff for less money than the potential exposure if the jury comes back and finds willful infringement.

For the last several years, Mr. Denton has been the target of a lawsuit brought by the wrestler Hulk Hogan in the now - infamous defamation case over Gawker's publication of a sex tape — an editorial choice that recently resulted in a $ 140 million jury award to Mr. Hogan.

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.

Skip If that's where you rest your case for believing in God then it should be easy for you to understand why plenty of us on the jury just aren't convinced.

They knew how to make their case to a jury — by creating a framework for the jury through which they will be compelled to agree with the perspective and argument of the lawyer / theologian.

In the case of these Catholic priests who did just that, they should be made to stand before a judge and jury for thier actions.

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?

When the State Kills is the model for such an approach, with fascinating and accessible chapters on such topics as the never - ending quest for «painless» executions, the role of and pressures on the jury in capital cases, the portrayal of executions in contemporary films, and the increasingly desperate efforts of death - penalty lawyers to ensure that those who are condemned to die have received something approximating fair treatment under the law.

But you are correct that the actual case / crime only entails the actual struggle, and by that point it was just two dumb - dumbs in a fight, and the lack of evidence is what really made acquittal the only choice for the jury.

Companies with fewer than 50 employees are not likely to be subject to federal laws that govern how employers handle leave for family and medical reasons, bereavement, military leave, jury duty, court cases and voting.

The Dallas Police Department referred this case to a prosecutor for presentation to a grand jury, and the grand jury will determine whether to formally charge Manziel with a crime.

I litigated personal injuries cases for 25 years, and litigated hundreds of knee in jury cases.

Or, in some special cases, we might vote for a «jury's out» verdict:

«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!

The Attorney General (AG) filed a nolle prosequi in the case of the two, which had reached the stage where a jury was to be constituted for the trial of Daniel Asiedu and Vincent Bosso.

A juror in the Joe Percoco corruption case was called for service on a second jury as deliberations stretch into the seventh week of trial.

Question is, what would the numbers be if you normalize for prosecutor bending to public pressure and sending LE - defenant cases to the jury (to avoid public backlash, or pressure from the Feds) that clearly have no way of being successfully prosecuted and would NOT be brought to the jury by the same prosecutor for a civilian without publicity involved?

The measures include long - sought bills such as raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18 and enhancing grand jury transparency as well as enshrining a special prosecutor for cases in which civilians die in encounters with police.

Donald Trump Jr. reported for jury duty yesterday in Manhattan Supreme Court, turning heads and generating a buzz — but went home without getting picked for a case.

ALBANY — State government is bracing for a parade of corruption trials in 2018, with five cases involving powerful players going before juries at the same time that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and all 213 legislative seats are up for election.

«There's more than sufficient evidence for this case to go to the jury on all counts,» U.S. District Judge Joan M. Azrack said.

WASHINGTON — Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan — under fire for not securing a grand - jury indictment in the Eric Garner chokehold case — is being touted to replace convicted tax cheat Michael Grimm in Congress, sources have told The Post.

«We thank Attorney General Schneiderman for his diligence in investigating and trying this case, and the jury for their service in bringing justice to New Yorkers,» she said at the time.

Last week the first of those cases went to the jury for deliberations and in the second case, a trial was averted when a former legislator pleaded guilty.

The remaining case against Andy Coulson ended today after the jury failed to return a verdict, but not before the judge issued a stinging rebuke to the prime minister for nearly causing it to collapse.

«They were interested in Joel Abelove bringing Randy French's case to the grand jury,» said retired Detective Sgt. Patrick Bornt after appearing before the grand jury for 90 minutes at Rensselaer City Hall.

Keating is expected to wrap up his closing argument Wednesday and defense attorneys for Venditto and Mangano's wife, Linda, also are set to make their closing cases to the jury.

The jury instructions in the Percoco case spell it out: «The Government must prove that Mr. Percoco knew that he was expected to perform an official action act in exchange for the property that he allegedly obtained from CPV and COR Development, respectively.»

Honest Service fraud statutes were questioned by the courts previously, and prior to deliberations in the Silver case, attorneys for Silver argued that the jury instructions would unfairly guarantee a conviction.

After the governor's proposals to elevate the threshold of adult criminality to 18 years and to create a special monitor to review cases where a grand jury decides not to indict a police officer for killing a potentially unarmed civilian failed to make headway in the State Senate, Mr. Cuomo rolled out a pair of executive orders.

Singh, taking the stand for the first time as the government's star witness in its federal corruption case against Mangano, retraced the arc of his life and career to the jury in the Central Islip courtroom.

Several officials, including the head of the NYPD's biggest union, former mayor Rudy Giuliani, for whom Bratton served as police chief in the 1990s, and former Gov. George Pataki have criticized the mayor in the wake of the officers» deaths and ongoing protests against grand jury decisions not to indict police in the Garner and Brown cases.

Democrats in the Senate back the use of body cameras for police, as well as the creation of an Office of Special Investigation to oversee grand jury cases involving law enforcement.

The state's top judge on Tuesday called for a package of reforms to the legal system's grand jury process, including transparency in cases involving deaths of civilians caused by police officers.

The state's two U.S. senators on Wednesday called for a federal investigation into the death of Eric Garner after a State Island grand jury decided not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the case.

Manhattan DA Cy Vance Jr. has empanelled a grand jury that is taking testimony in a case involving Mayor Bloomberg's $ 750,000 contribution to the state Independence Party in 2009 that was passed on to campaign operative John Haggerty, who has never fully accounted for how he spent the cash, sources confirm.

For prosecutors, retrying a case — recompiling witnesses and exhibits, reviewing old jury arguments — often does not have the same spark as the first time.

The jury said it couldn't reach a unanimous decision on a fourth defendant in the case, energy company executive Peter Galbraith Kelly, who had been accused of arranging a $ 90,000 - per - year job for Percoco's wife.

Government lawyers, led by Carrie Heather Cohen, argued that the office's conduct was standard for high - profile cases, and that there «was certainly no prejudice in the grand jury proceedings.»

Indeed, prosecutors in the Silver case told the judge in a court filing last month that if the assemblyman's lawyers introduced evidence to «shed light on his good character or his character for truthfulness,» they would want to tell the jury about a 2009 episode that they claimed raised questions about his honesty.