Sentences with phrase «jury deliberations for»

November 24, 2015 After weeks of listening to people talk about Albany politics, jurors may have turned to the dark side and started treating each other not so nicely — and less than two hours after jury deliberations for the Silver trial began on Tuesday.

Not exact matches

During its first - ever live broadcast of jury deliberations, the Andy Awards revealed the four big winners of its newly revamped awards program: Nike's «Breaking 2» integrated campaign that documented runners attempting to break the two - hour marathon mark, which earned the «Bravery» award; a «Sound of Music» - inspired musical for Orkin, nabbing the Student honor; «Immunity Charm» for the Afghanistan MInistry of Public Health from McCann Worldgroup India, which earned the award for Social Good; and State Street Global Advisors» «Fearless Girl» from McCann New York, which claimed another top honor and earned the best of show Grandy award.

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.

It's the first full day of deliberations for the jury in the retrial of former Lower East Side Assemblyman Sheldon Silver.

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.

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.

Former State Senate Leader Dean Skelos was stone - faced and silent as he left a federal courthouse where a jury found him and his son Adam guilty of public corruption charges today, after a four - week trial and just about eight hours of deliberations — but attorneys for both men said they would pursue legal challenges to the verdict.

Hanging over state business are both the federal corruption trial of Governor Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, which is now in jury deliberations after closing arguments last week and this year's state - level elections, including the race for governor.

The jury found for the defendant within forty minutes of deliberations.

The Daily News reports that on Day 3 of jury deliberations, the panel of eight women and four men got the calculator and met for more than six hours before retiring for the night without reaching a verdict.

That dysfunction seemed to creep into the jury room on Tuesday; for a juror to ask to be dismissed from a case so soon after deliberations begin is highly unusual.

Jury Deliberations wrapped up for the 7th day today in Schoharie County Court without a final verdict, in the 3rd murder trial for Cal Harris.

Lawyers for former top governor's aide Joseph Percoco and Hudson Valley energy executive Braith Kelly are also delivering statements before the jury begins its deliberations.

Silver, 71, one of Albany's proverbial «three men in a room» who ruled the Assembly with seldom - questioned authority for 20 years, was stoic as the jury forewoman read seven consecutive verdicts of guilty on extortion, bribery and money - laundering charges on just the third day of deliberations.

Later, the jury deliberations ended for the week, with plans for the panel to meet again on Monday.

A Schoharie county jury deliberated for only 2 1/2 hours this morning in the 10th day of deliberation in the Cal Harris Murder trial.

«The courts ask juries to pick a number and they don't give juries a specific rule or principle for guiding their deliberations,» he says.

Bear in mind, like everybody else, I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about when it comes to predictions — having recently served on a festival jury, I have an even better sense now of how futile it is for people not in the deliberation room to guess how various compromises might take shape.

This is the day set aside for Jury Deliberations so we are given freedom.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS 12 (PG - 13 for violence, mature themes, disturbing images, brief sexuality, drug references and smoking) Russian remake of the Sidney Lumet classic 12 Angry Men revolves around the deliberations of a jury deciding the fate of a teenager (Apti Magamayev) on trial for the murder of his stepfather.

Upon the completion of jury deliberations she remarked: «The five exceptional artists shortlisted for 2017 Sobey Art Award reflect the multiplicity of contemporary Canadian visual arts.»

Unfortunately for Sylvester, the first juror polled said she did not agree with the verdict, which required the jury to go back into deliberations.

Over at Deliberations, Anne Reed poses a question as a general rule of thumb for evaluating the propriety of jury conduct online: «If the juror had done the same thing off line, what would we do?»

After deliberation, the jury returned a general verdict in the defendant's favor, finding that the defendant was not liable for any of the plaintiff's injuries.

On this second day of Apple v. Samsung II jury deliberations, jurors have put in a request for an easel, paper, scissors, and tape.

At the conclusion of the case prior to trial, counsel brought up the issue of whether the proposed jury questions should be put to a jury for deliberation.

I've been on both sides of short jury deliberations, so I know those happen for better or worse.

'' [T] hey're likely to be disappointed: the remedy for an inconsistent verdict is to ask the jury to return to deliberations to reconcile the inconsistency before they're dismissed.»

These two recent examples of blogging jurors demonstrate that there is no longer any question of the need for lawyers to ask potential jurors if they are writing online, says another jury consultant, Anne Reed, writing at her blog Deliberations.

The ruling, which takes effect Sept. 1, will require Michigan judges for the first time to instruct jurors not to use any handheld device, such as iPhones or Blackberrys, while in the jury box or during deliberations

The jury's role is always the same - show up, be selected and sworn in, listen to the opening and closing arguments and the evidence that the judge admits under the rules of evidence, listen to the jury instructions from the judge, deliberate and render a verdict based upon that deliberation in a manner set forth on a jury verdict form that the jury is provided with by the judge, they do this for sub-minimum wage jury fees, a few free meals, and maybe a parking or transit voucher.

Even as the Arkansas story broke, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that defense lawyers for former Pennsylvania Sen. Vincent J. Fumo moved to halt jury deliberations in his trial on federal corruption charges, contending that a juror posted messages to Twitter and Facebook, including one that said, «Stay tuned for a big announcement on Monday everyone!»

Read on for their thoughtful exploration of the values and priorities of blogging and jury deliberation, and their shared opinion that these two roles fundamentally clash during trial.

After a two - week trial and less than an hour of deliberations, the jury returned a complete defense verdict for our client, finding no conspiracy.

The trial lasted for five days before both sides rested and sent the case to the jury for deliberation.

The time and place for coming to your final opinions and speaking about them with your fellow jurors is during deliberations in the jury room, after all of the evidence has been presented, closing arguments have been made, and I have instructed you on the law.

The verdict came during the seventh day of sometimes - heated deliberations by a jury that had been confined to a 15th floor courtroom for almost two months.

The Third Circuit affirmed the trial court's ruling that her speech wasn't protected, leaving no genuine issue of fact for deliberation by a jury.

I don't typically practice criminal law, but this case is interesting for how the jury deliberations unfolded.

Settled a jury trial before deliberations began for a national transportation client in a personal injury matter that involved six medical experts

The judge of the Winnipeg murder trial has provided instructions for the jury as it prepares to enter deliberations on Wednesday.

However, the ratio between jury convictions and overall acquittals is more or less the same for offences of serious violence as for rape, from which it is almost certainly safe to infer that the ratio between jury convictions and acquittals returned after due deliberation (not judge - directed) will be broadly the same for serious violence generally and for rape.

YOU ARE NOT TO FORM OR EXPRESS ANY OPINION ON THE CASE UNTIL THE CASE IS SUBMITTED TO YOU FOR YOUR DELIBERATIONS IN THE JURY ROOM.

The jury gets a chance to deliberate after the case has been presented, and it's very easy for other jurors in the deliberation room to point out they're ignoring that piece of information and not let it influence the final decision.

As long ago as 1982, the Law Reform Commission of Canada recommended that section 649 be amended to allow for scholarly research of jury deliberations.

Today, after three days of deliberation, a jury in San Francisco federal court found that Android's usage of 37 Java APIs is protected by fair use, so there was no need for Google to acquire a license before using the code.