Sentences with phrase «jury cases involving»
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.
http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/ Not exact matches
It's tricky to select a jury that won't be biased when the court case involves one of the biggest bands in the world.
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.
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?
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.
Yesterday a federal grand jury officially indicted Councilman Dan Halloran and Senator Malcolm Smith et al. in a case involving bribery.
Instead of working with Schneiderman's office to determine jurisdiction in the case, Abelove is accused of presenting grand jury testimony and granting immunity to the officer involved in the case and withheld evidence in the process.
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.
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.
After a grand jury chose not to indict a police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner last year, Democratic leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins called for the placement of body cameras on police officers and introduced legislation that would require the use of a special prosecutor in cases involving police officers who kill unarmed legislation.
Federal prosecutors are presenting evidence to a grand jury in case involving both Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, The New York Times reported this evening.
At the same time, he conferred immunity on the officer involved in the case, Sgt. Randall French, before the grand jury voted.
Jury selection in the trial of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo confidant and top aide Joe Percoco and others involved in the Buffalo Billion bribery case starts in NYC today.
The grand jury review took place after the attorney general's office notified Abelove it was reviewing the case under a gubernatorial order giving Schneiderman's office jurisdiction in cases involving fatal encounters between police and unarmed civilians.
Democratic City Councilman Kevin B. McGrath, 40, who testified before the grand jury that indicted McDonough and LoPorto, gave State Police a sworn statement in March 2010 in which he said McInerney was involved in collecting the WFP ballots at the center of the case.
Federal and state grand juries have been convened to hear testimony in the cases involving City Hall, but de Blasio said Wednesday that he hasn't testified before either one.
The former town supervisor of Ramapo in New York's Rockland County has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison after a jury had found him guilty in a corruption case involving the financing of a local ballpark.
A federal grand jury has returned a second superseding indictment in a major corruption case involving Joe Percoco, a former top aide to the governor who was snared in a state economic development scandal.
Cuomo's proposal would allow him to appoint a special counsel to review cases of police - involved shootings when they are not presented to a grand jury or when a grand jury fails to return an indictment.
In that case, resisting the executive order, Rensselaer County DA Abelove convened a grand jury that cleared the officer before Schneiderman could get involved.
Under an Executive Order by Governor Andrew Cuomo, Attorney General Schneiderman is empowered to examine all police - involved shootings of unarmed civilians and, if necessary, take the case to a grand jury.
McNally said he could not comment on matters involving a grand jury, including his decision to drop the case.
The jury, which is probing election law violations in Niagara County, indicted Ortt in a case that also involves former State Sen. George D. Maziarz.
Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan, who unsuccessfully sought an indictment last year against a white police officer in the death of Eric Garner, a black Staten Island man, expressed pity for the grand jury involved in the case in his first radio interview since becoming the official GOP nominee to replace former Congressman Michael Grimm.
The film charts Ford's journey to reconnect with the Long Island, N.Y., officers and prosecutors involved in his brother's case and discover how the grand jury could deem the shooting justifiable.
Earlier this month the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled (via Deliberations) in an interesting case that involved a jury deciding that a plaintiff should be awarded $ 336,300 in damages, but failing to adequately communicate that to the court because of confusion about how the verdict form worked.
SFL notes that lawyers who bluster that they are eager to try their complex case before a jury are actually saying that «they will be asking the guy in a tank top at Target to decide a complex question of securities law involving several hundred million dollars.»
Our attorneys obtained a jury verdict of $ 5.2 million in a medical malpractice case involving the delayed diagnosis of a spinal condition.
This is a key aspect of the law as in cases involving non-commercial drivers, it can have a depressing effect on the jury verdict.
Judges, juries, and defendants should know when outside funding is involved in the case.
Now, you can read about some of the jury verdicts and settlements we have obtained in our cases that involve personal injury, traumatic brain injury, trucking accidents, wrongful death, medical malpractice, and nursing home malpractice.
Our lawyers have consistently served as lead trial counsel in some of the region's most high - profile cases, including a nineteen - month jury trial for Solutia Inc. and Pharmacia Corporation involving PCB contamination.
While there, Muthyala directed grand jury investigations and prosecuted white - collar cases involving securities fraud, public corruption, bank fraud, money laundering, perjury, and other crimes.
We have secured significant jury verdicts and sizeable out - of - court settlements for injured individuals and their families in cases involving trucking and transportation accidents, dangerous and defective products, construction accidents, commercial plane crashes, explosions and burns caused by gas and electric power utilities, medical negligence, workplace catastrophes, and business disputes.
For instance, in a personal injury case involving a defective product, the final jury instructions will include information on both personal injury law and products liability law, as well as an explanation of the general negligence standard that may apply to both personal injury and products liability cases.
Juries have little tolerance for drunk drivers, so verdicts may be larger, and punitive damages may be available if the case involves wrongful death.
Represented a client in a state jury trial of a seminal Texas trade secret case involving the client's former employees.
A jury awarded $ 120 million verdict against a physician and the county of Los Angeles in a medical malpractice case involving a baby who suffered injury as a result of a breech birth.
Though most of his cases involve complex scientific issues, Larkin enjoys the challenge of condensing the technical issues in a case and presenting them to judge and jury in a simple, direct, and forceful manner.
Represented an international chemical company in state jury trial of a wrongful termination case involving environmental dumping allegations.
The personal injury attorneys at Morgan & Morgan have helped thousands of individuals obtain significant jury verdicts and settlement awards in cases involving car accidents, medical malpractice, nursing home abuse, and wrongful death.
Successfully obtained a plaintiff's jury verdict for a minority shareholder of a limited liability company providing care to developmentally - disabled adults in a case involving breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, and trade secret allegations
Generally speaking, aside from very specific types of cases involving contracts, or specific types of statutory relief, a Plaintiff typically includes counts for things like NIED (negligent infliction of emotional distress), pain and suffering, loss of consortium, loss of future earning capacity — these are a few of the types of counts whereby there is no specific value a defendant could ever point to being «fully satisfied» — the reason being, a jury needs to determine the legitimate value of these claims unless the Plaintiff accepts a settlement award whereby he / she / it feels as if it's fully satisfied.
Because of the publicity of past cases involving sex related crimes, especially those involving children, a person facing charges will more than likely face prejudice and discrimination from law enforcement, the jury and even court personnel.
Greg is routinely called upon to handle «bet the company cases» involving complex issues, largely due to his innate ability to pare down the complicated so a judge or jury can understand his clients» story.
At Lynch & Owens, our approach involves developing customized solutions for every individual client and preparing each case as if we already know that it will be fully litigated to a jury.
When a case involving a large vehicle crash goes to trial, it is critical to present a strong accident re-enactment to the jury.
Barbara MacFarlane was successful in obtaining a medical malpractice jury verdict valued in excess of $ 1.6 million in a case involving a brachial plexus birthing injury.
Reasons included (1) judges «grade on a curve» and, after sitting through 20 cases involving violent crimes, might not find a more minor crime as serious whereas a jury would not share this context; (2) defendants will select those judges who they believe will be more inclined to acquit; (3) judges are bound by fixed sentencing rules so rather than sentence a defendant of a nonserious crime to a lengthy term they avoid that dilemma through acquittal; (4) judges might better understand the complex elements of certain corporate crimes and, unlike a jury, would recognize when the prosecution failed to carry its burden and (5) some judges may just have something against prosecutors.
In contrast, the majority of the courts of appeals that have considered the question have held, in accord with the court of appeals in this case, that the statutory maximum penalty in a drug conspiracy case turns on the jury's determination of the type and quantity of drugs involved in the conspiracy as a whole.