Sentences with phrase «jury cases on»

Attorney Andrew C. Simpson regularly tries jury cases on behalf of corporate and individual defendants and pursues those verdicts on appeal if necessary.

Not exact matches

The jury spent a total of just 14 hours in the penalty phase of the trial after finding Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 criminal counts, but an automatic appeal means his case will drag on.

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

Dooley discusses what a difficult time lawyers have in persuading the jury during a tough case, and the comparison he makes to your typical «car salesman» is spot on:

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

Biotechnology entrepreneur William Ardrey faces a retrial on fraud charges after Western Australia's Court of Appeal found the jury had been misdirected in the original court case.

The Village Voice would have been equally offensive to a jury in Tampa [where the case was tried] 40 years ago, but it would not have been read by people on a Tampa jury.

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.

A settlement means that we're going to not chance it to the jury to make a decision, we agree to disagree on whether anyone did anything wrong but we're making a practical business decision, we're going to pay this much to be done with this case and not test the waters.

There's a whole process that's set up to ensure that the jury that finally gets impaneled is an objective group of people with no connection with anything going on in the case that might persuade them to cast a decision that's inconsistent with the evidence that's presented at the trial.

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.

A San Francisco jury trial on the matter had been set to start in June, but that could be taken off the table if the judge presiding over the case approves the agreement.

A version of this article appears in print on August 25, 2012, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Jury Gives Apple Decisive Victory In A Patients Case.

If I were on the jury prosecuting the case, the other 11 jurors couldn't get me to say «guilty» no matter what.

Nevertheless, McGowan could face indictment in Virginia on a felony drug - possession charge after a judge found probable cause Thursday to send the case to a grand jury.

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.

As one who sat on a jury in a murder case in a state that is not shy about executions, I am aware of how important it is to make sure the right person is convicted.

I am sure that if anyone were charged with a crime, or is on trial, I am sure that if any of those lines were used in the presence of a police officer, judge, jury, etc., that person would be ticking off that person and hurting his own case.

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?

If I couldn't be trusted to judge innocence or guilt in that litigation, what was the likelihood that I would be seated on a jury in a murder case?

(CNN)- They didn't serve on the jury, weren't plaintiffs in the case, nor did they watch in the courtroom.

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.

(CNN)- A Philadelphia jury was unable to reach a verdict Wednesday on four of five charges in a landmark priest sex abuse case, according to a source familiar with the proceeding.

CNN: No verdict in Philadelphia priest sex abuse trial, source says A Philadelphia jury was unable to reach a verdict Wednesday on four of five charges in a landmark priest sex abuse case, according to a source familiar with the proceeding.

Having watched the TV cop / crime procedural shows jurors want to see scientific evidence — there will be at least one on every jury who will be thinking to him / herself «Ted Danson and Elisabeth Shue would have done a much better job with this case.»

The case sparked outrage in the small community of Sitka, and a grand jury indicted Rosi on felony negligent homicide charges.

(The jury is out on whether this is the case — the habit of sucking on fingers and thumbs may have its roots in more complex causes.)

«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!

Regardless of what verdict the jury brings back in the case, Horner said the case shows how reforms need to be made on how economic development contracts are doled out.

Now they want banks to sit as judge and jury on the case and bar individuals from using debit cards to subscribe to overseas porn.

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, who acted as the special prosecutor in Sen. Kevin Parker's assault case, released a statement in the wake of the Brooklyn Democrat's conviction on two misdemeanor charges, saying he respects the jury's decision despite the fact that it did not deliver a felony guilty verdict.

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.

Bill Cosby's lawyers rested their case after just a few minutes today without calling the comedian to the stand, opting against a high - stakes gamble that could have allowed him to work his charm on the jury but could have also exposed him to blistering cross-examination.

After more than 50 hours of deliberations over five days, the jury in the Bill Cosby case was unable to reach a unanimous verdict on any of the three charges the entertainer was facing.

Jury deliberations in the corruption trial of former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco appeared to have run aground on their fourth day, as three jurors issued notes asking to be excused from the case, with one expressing concern about the storm expected to slam the New York City metro area; and another saying that she has sick children.

«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.

In her jury instructions, the judge noted Howe's participation in the case as a cooperating witness, noting that convictions in this case can be made «on the basis of such a witness's testimony.»

The summations will continue Wednesday and the jury is expected to get the case possibly on Thursday.

«I think [Skelos lawyer Alexandra Shapiro] is right that in the instructions I gave the jury and in arguments made by counsel to the jury, there is a danger that the jury decided the case based on a rationale that may be rejected by the Supreme Court,» Wood said.

RENSSELAER — A Rensselaer County grand jury on Thursday wanted answers about the speed with which District Attorney Joel Abelove presented a fatal police shooting to another grand jury in 2016, according to a retired Troy detective who investigated the case.

The case centered on the meaning of what constitutes an «official act,» with Chief Justice John Roberts agreeing with McDonnell that instructions to his jury were so broad as to include almost anything a public official did.

In its decision regarding Silver's case, the appeals court ruled in 2017 that the definition of official corruption provided to the jurors differed from the one used by the U.S. Supreme Court when it overturned the corruption conviction of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, and so it was possible the jury could have ruled differently had it been instructed on the updated definition of the law.

White declined to comment on whether the grand jury asked about Abelove's presentation of the fatal shooting case to the April 2016 grand jury.

In the case of Garner, whose confrontation with police was captured on a dramatic video on which Garner can be heard repeatedly saying he can't breathe, former Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan declined to release minutes from the grand jury.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday threw out the 2015 conviction of former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on honest services fraud because the charge to the jury did not comport with the Supreme Court's 2016 decision in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, which narrowed the definition of an «official act.»

«A jury rejected the government's facts and theory of bribery, and now the trial judge has rejected a critical legal theory on which the case was brought,» Lowell said in the statement.

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.

At the same time, Ortt and Maziarz are seeking the disclosure of a grand jury transcript they believe will shed additional light on the case.