Sentences with phrase «jury finding of»

NEWS (4/18): In Ohio v. Mason, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that its capital sentencing statute does not violate a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury and the U.S. Supreme Court's 2016 decision Hurst v. Florida, which reiterated that a defendant is entitled to a jury finding of all facts necessary to impose a death sentence;» [a] jury's mere recommendation is not enough.»

If a judge were able to overturn a jury finding of fact, the «separation» would be moot.

In his tough questioning of USSC Chair Judge Patti Saris, Rep. Gowdy suggested he would favor having Congress «codify» the guidelines via statutes (which would, of course, require jury findings of all aggravating factors based on Apprendi / Blakely).

(3) If a jury find of fact is against the evidence, courts have frequently reversed juries (eg see New York HLD, v. 30, n. 4), however, they are not supposed to do so, unless the verdict is a gross miscarriage of justice.

Not exact matches

A federal jury found Edwards not guilty on one count of violating campaign finance rule, and the judge declared a mistrial on the five remaining criminal charges.

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.

Announcing their verdict on Thursday, a jury outside of Philadelphia found Bill Cosby guilty of all three sexual assault charges brought against him.

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.

It appears none of Shkreli's hedge fund investors actually lost money in the end, but he was so widely reviled by the time of his trial that it was difficult to find an unbiased jury to hear the case.

As Politico's Jack Shafer notes, «The Florida jury that found in Hogan's favor thought it was delivering a rebuke to morally reprobate coastal elites on behalf of a hometown hero.

Though some experts argue that employee tenures at the top are decreasing, she points to U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics, which find that managers stay with a firm an average of 6.1 years (up from 5.3 years in 1983), as proof that the jury is still out.

Winners are found this way: First, the Product of the Year Canada jury carefully selects the finalists — that is, products that meet or exceed innovation standards — which are then categorized and judged by an online survey, on behalf of Rogers Insights and conducted by TNS, of thousands of regular Canadian shoppers.

He said when a brutal crime is committed it's difficult to convince a jury the person accused doesn't «deserve the condemnation that comes from a finding of guilty.»

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York also rejected an appeal by MP3tunes founder Michael Robertson, who was ordered to pay $ 12.2 million after a federal jury in 2014 found him liable for copyright infringement.

Andrew Wright, a professor at Savannah Law School who was an associate in the White House counsel's office under President Barack Obama, said he was «glad to see the Trump administration acknowledging the legitimacy of the findings of our intelligence community and the Mueller grand jury: that Russians illegally interfered with our elections.»

«A criminal defendant, we hold, need not request special interrogatories, nor need he acquiesce in the Government's request for discrete findings by the jury, in order to preserve in full a timely - raised objection to jury instructions,» Justice J. Ginsburg wrote in her explanation of the court's decision.

In criminal trials, the burden of proof lies on the prosecution, meaning the jury will have to find Hernandez guilty «beyond a reasonable doubt.»

After less than a day of deliberations, the jury of six men and six women found Ulbricht guilty of charges including drug trafficking, and conspiracies to commit money laundering and computer hacking.

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.

On a similar theme, I was also on the jury for the $ 4 million Zayed Future Energy Prize, based in the United Arab Emirates, which encourages entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions «that will meet the challenges of climate change, energy security and the environment.»

I wouldn't say that a finding by the jury of infringement in this case is going to open up the door to a lot more similar cases being filed against Led Zeppelin per se.

In returning its verdict Thursday afternoon on the sixth day of deliberations, the Superior Court jury also pronounced Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty of assault with a firearm, finding credence in defense attorneys» argument that the shot that ricocheted off the concrete ground before piercing Steinle's heart was an accident, with the gun discharging after the defendant stumbled upon it on the waterfront on July 1, 2015.

Attorneys for McGowan said after the hearing that they were confident a jury would find no proof McGowan knew the drugs were in the wallet or had possession of the wallet when her plane landed in Virginia.

A suspended Coconut Creek police officer won his first round in court late Monday when a Broward jury found him not guilty of molesting an aspiring cop during a supposed training exercise two years ago.

Bill Cosby's 2005 admission that he drugged women to have sex with them was the most compelling piece of evidence leading a Pennsylvania jury to finding him guilty of sexual assault, one of the jurors told ABC's «Good Morning America» on Monday.

David Demos, 36, was found not guilty Thursday of securities fraud by a federal jury in Hartford, Connecticut.

Gawker Media president and general counsel Heather Dietrick thinks that it is «more likely than not» that a jury will find in favor of professional wrestler Hulk Hogan — but also that they'll award him significantly less than the $ 100 million he's seeking.

A Brooklyn federal court jury found him guilty on three of the eight indictment charges Friday afternoon.

On Tuesday, April 10, 2018, a federal jury in Eastern District of Texas awarded VirnetX Holding Corp. (VHC) with a $ 502.6 million verdict against Apple Inc. finding that Apple was...

If the jury found that Hogan was entitled to $ 100 million in damages and Gawker was required to post a bond of at least that amount, the company would not be able to do so without selling itself to a larger company or bringing on outside investors.

A jury found Cosby guilty last week on three counts of aggravated indecent assault brought on by one woman, although dozens have accused him of sexual assault.

Gawker shuttered in August, after a jury found in favor of Hulk Hogan's invasion - of - privacy lawsuit over the site's publication of parts of a sex tape featuring the wrestler.

After a highly publicized five - week jury trial that was the most closely watched of a wave of corporate fraud trials, Stewart was found guilty in March 2004 of conspiracy, obstruction of an agency proceeding, and making false statements to federal investigators, and was sentenced in July 2004 to serve a five - month term in a federal correctional facility and a two - year period of supervised release (to include five months of electronic monitoring).

A former U.S. Army sergeant and two other U.S. citizens were found guilty by a jury in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday of taking part in a plot to murder a woman in the Philippines for money, prosecutors said.

On Friday, August 4, 2017, a federal court jury in Brooklyn, New York, found Martin Shkreli, former CEO of biopharmaceutical company Retrophin, guilty on three of eight counts of securities fraud.

Ross Ulbricht, 30, was found guilty by a Manhattan federal jury on all seven counts he faced after a closely watched four - week trial spilling out of U.S. investigations of the use of the bitcoin digital currency for drug trafficking and other crimes.

The jury of six men and six women needed a little over three hours to deliberate before finding Ulbricht guilty of charges that included conspiracies to commit money laundering, computer hacking and drug trafficking.

In terms of finding alpha, the jury is out, said Louis Scott, founder of Kiema Advisors, who was presenting joint research with Northfield Information Services.

... The import of the statement is that the jury found reason to discredit Jane Doe's claims and therefore acquitted Huon of the charges; it thus bolsters rather than defames his reputation.

Hey, Piddler, did you ever manage to find the wording about a «jury of his peers» in the Const itution?

In a highly controversial decision, a jury found St. Anthony, Minnesota officer Jeronimo Yanez not guilty of murder for opening fire on Castile with a 4 - year - old in the back seat of the car at a traffic stop.

Kingston, Ontario (CNN)- A Canadian jury Sunday convicted three members of a family of Afghan immigrants of the «honor» murders of four female relatives whose bodies were found in an Ontario canal.

CNN: Family convicted in Canada «honor murders» A Canadian jury Sunday convicted three members of a family of Afghan immigrants of the «honor» murders of four female relatives whose bodies were found in an Ontario canal.

On March 20, he held a mock trial of the Muslim Holy Book, and the jury — consisting of twelve people from his congregation — found the book guilty of five «crimes against humanity,» including the promotion of terrorist acts and «the death, rape and torture of people worldwide whose only crime is not being of the Islamic faith.»

The jury has found Kermit Gosnell guilty on three charges of first - degree murder of babies, according to reporter J. D. Mullane, and not guilty of a fourth murder charge.

Martin Shkreli, who became famous a couple years ago for price gouging an AIDS drug, was found guilty by a Brooklyn jury on two counts of securities fraud and a count of conspiracy.

The grand jury found that Lynn, 60, endangered children, including the alleged victims of those charged last week, by knowingly allowing dangerous priests to continue in the ministry in roles in which they had access to kids.

San Angelo, Texas (CNN)- A Texas jury found polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs guilty Thursday of two counts of sexual assault on a child.

I find myself wondering whether we might not do some justice to the truth of each intuition by requiring at executions a public presence of randomly selected citizens» something like a jury.

However, a jury found him guilty yesterday of downloading more than 600 images and 14 videos of graphic pornography involving children as young as three.