Sentences with phrase «jury found well»

LAST week a California jury found well - known music man Phil Spector guilty of shooting little - known blond B - movie actress Lana Clarkson in the mouth.

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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.

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.

By Tuesday, when a Manhattan jury found Percoco — whom Cuomo had known for decades and characterized as «my father's third son» — guilty of taking $ 300,000 in bribes from a donor to the governor's campaign, his former boss and best friend had decamped back to the state capital.

Judge and best - selling author Constance Briscoe faces prison after a jury found her guilty on Thursday of intending to pervert the course of justice in the Chris Huhne speeding points scandal.

A jury found Assemblyman Sheldon Silver — for years one of the most well - known and powerful legislators in Albany — guilty on all seven counts Monday afternoon.

Dick Dadey, executive director of good government group Citizens Union, said he found it «curious» that Heastie had received so many jury duty postponements but was happy that Heastie had now served twice in a row.

Running re-enactions of real cases, she found that bifurcation better enabled the jury to focus on the correct information, so that they gave a fairer judgement overall.

Get the narcissist out of your head as your judge and jury right now, and you'll find you feel significantly better, more optimistic, more creative, and happier.

A major hit at Sundance this year (and Grand Jury Prize winner), The Miseducation of Cameron Post finds a career - best performance from Chloe Grace Moretz as a teen girl sent to a Christian gay conversion camp by her guardians in 1993 rural Pennsylvania.

Pleasingly tender and retiring where you expect him to gorge on neurotic kvetching, he could well find himself rewarded by the Venice jury — and might offer the film's newly acquired distributor Sony Pictures Classics a credible Oscar prospect.

Courtesy of a great Lynsky performance that's equal parts miserable and furious, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance before premiering exclusively on Netflix) finds humor and horror in the notion that «everyone is an asshole» — and then locates hope in the closing - note idea that, rather than worrying about them, life is best spent in the company of those precious few who aren't.

If you consider Hoffman's career in decline since then, you'd be underestimating his subsequent contributions to good and great movies, like Finding Neverland, Sleepers, Wag the Dog, Stranger Than Fiction, Runaway Jury, and Outbreak (yeah, I said it).

However, reuniting with Toni Servillo, his lead in «Il Divo,» the director's latest effort «La Grande Bellezza» could find him back in the good graces of the jury.

«Finding Vivian Maier,» co-directed by Maier's chief curator, John Maloof, debuted last November at DOC NYC and went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at the Miami Film Festival (tying with «The Overnighters» by Jeff Moss), the audience awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best New Director at the Portland International Film Festival, a Founder's Prize at the Traverse City Film Festival and the John Schlesinger Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

After a trial which might best be described as a rush to judgment, Hunt was found guilty by an all - white jury which took the word of a couple of shady characters over that of an innocent African - American kid with a solid alibi.

Opening in September: Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher take a turn in the comic bridesmaid well in «Bachelorette» (Friday); Bradley Cooper is an author whose stolen work becomes a hit in «The Words» (Friday), a thriller co-starring Jeremy Irons and Dennis Quaid (see story on Page 17); Pixar adds another dimension to one of its most popular films in «Finding Nemo 3 - D» (Sept. 14); Milla Jovovich returns for one more zombie slaughter in «Resident Evil: Retribution» (Sept. 14); Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña are Los Angeles cops in «End of Watch» (Sept. 21), which aims for a realistic look at inner - city law enforcement; Elizabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence are mother and daughter, discovering a horror - tinged secret in «House at the End of the Street» (Sept. 21); Karl Urban plays «Dredd» (Sept. 21), a helmeted avenger who cleans up the futuristic Mega City as its judge, jury and (wait for it...) executioner; In the animated «Hotel Transylvania,» Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) struggles to cope with his daughter's new non-vampire love interest (Sept. 28).

Your work will already look like it's on another level of writing, above the average work in your genre, just because it's been judged by a jury and found to be the best.

Findings The jury ultimately did find that SHI and Smith were negligent, and Smith conducted his home inspection in a manner that was «against the best interests» of his corporation, SHI.

The van der Rohe jury thought as much, commending the Hall's design for finding «a convincing formal and spatial strategy for a city which strives for a better future in a fast - changing economy and social patterns, delivering a dignity to urban life and the same time enhancing the city's specific historical identity with a contemporary monument.»

-LSB-...] And now finally here is an introduction to our incredible external jury that helped us in finding the «The Eight Best Nordic Indie Games» that will be shown at NGIN 2014, from 18.00 at Slagthuset, Malmö (Read more about the finalist games here).

Having just being ready to quit last spring, I then found myself in a position of winning 2 awards and getting selected for the most select juried art show in my country (a big deal), and selling my work there as well.

Sir Nicholas Serota, chairman of the jury and director of the two Tate Galleries, admitted yesterday that the prize, under growing criticism that it is run by and for a clique centred around the Tates, was not about finding the best art or artist of the year but choosing one whom four jurors each year find «interesting».

Allow the jury to question each team's findings before endorsing the position of the team that presented the most compelling argument supported by the best evidence.

Well, the jury found that the defendants were not guilty of vandalism in law, and we should respect that opinion.

Years later, I found it was good to hang over a 1960's era car window... with a little jury rigging.Almost seventy years after it's manufacture, there's not a spot of rust anywhere, the canvas is completely intact.

But, in most cases of serious criminal charges like this one, either a grand jury probable cause finding, or a preliminary hearing probable cause finding, both made well prior to a trial, will conclusively preclude a malicious prosecution or civil rights lawsuit.

Because the Mercury policy is ambiguous at best and misleading at worst, the Court should find that the notice requirement is a simple contract requirement and that a jury should decide if the insurer was prejudiced by the delay.

Well, it may have taken over half a decade, but Jose Padilla's long, strange, Kafka-esque journey through the legal system has finally come to some resolution, with today's jury verdict finding Padilla guilty of supporting Islamic terrorism overseas.

I find it very disturbing that people with supervisory authority at the courthouse could still think they can call the police on our well - litigated jury nullification activity.

At the same time, I question whether those kinds of pro bono projects represent the best allocation of limited resources, when there are still defendants in Alabama who can't find a court - appointed lawyer who can create enough reasonable doubt to keep the jury deliberating more than a half hour.

The trial judge may well find that the threshold «was not met» and then be confronted with a substantial jury award which would indicate that the jury believed otherwise.

Despite the jury finding, Google proceeded with a non-obstante application that they were not liable because they were not a publisher of the images, relying on cases from the UK, Metropolitan Schools Ltd v Designtechnica Corp»n [2011] 1 WLR 1743; Webb v Bloch [1928] HCA 50; Tamiz v Google Inc [2012] EWHC 449; and Bunt v Tilley [2006] EWHC 407, as well as the Canadian Supreme Court decision in Crookes v Newton [2011] 3 SCR 269.

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.

Well, yesterday, Clottemans was sentenced to 30 years in prison for tampering with Van Doren's parachute, which the jury found caused Van Doren to plummet to her death when her chute failed to open during the Nov. 18, 2006 jump.

In all court proceedings, the court shall instruct the jury of its inherent right to judge the law as well as the fact and to nullify any and all actions it finds to be unjust.

The jury found for the plaintiff concluding there was a likelihood of confusion between the plaintiff «s 5 - hour ENERGY trademark and several of the N2G products, as well as the trade dress of the plaintiff «s product and a number of the defendants «products.

A more critical finding by the majority of the Supreme Court in Kokopenace would encourage further action by the province to ensure representative jury rolls in criminal and civil court cases as well.

Finding the best accident lawyer for you bodily harm settlement requires thorough research, of which 90 % can be done thru the internet by focusing on geo area, search terms such as accident or injury lawyer, experience, results obtained, reviews by clients, ratings by independent bodies, jury trials handled, membership in legal associations and a review of videos.

Authors Theodore Eisenberg and Michael Heise of Cornell University Law School conclude that two findings dominate: first, appeals courts are more likely to disrupt jury verdicts than bench decisions, and second, trial defendants fare better than plaintiffs on appeal.

The lower court determined that a jury may well find that the boy was negligent, and it denied the Bells» motion to dismiss.

If we find that you will be best served by taking your case to trial, we will aggressively advocate your position before a Judge or jury.

Motorcyclists are not always treated fairly by juries and insurance companies so it is critical to find the best representation you can.

Further detail about The Lawyer European Awards as well as this edition's jury can be found on the official website at http://www.thelawyereuropeanevent.com

As for the concept that juries have not only the power but the obligation to nullify unjust rulings of a judge, John Adams wrote, «It is not only [the juror's] right, but his duty... to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court.»

1 For attempts to measure the effect of advocacy quality through other means, see, e.g., Banks Miller et al., Leveling the Odds: The Effect of Quality Legal Representation in Cases of Asymmetrical Capability, 49 Law & Soc» y Rev. 209 (2015)(finding that high quality representation evened the odds for asylum applicants and that asylum seekers fared better when unrepresented than when represented by a poor lawyer); Mitchell J. Frank & Dr. Osvaldo F. Morera, Professionalism and Advocacy at Trial — Real Jurors Speak in Detail About the Performance of Their Advocates, 64 Baylor L. Rev. 1, 38 (2012)(finding statistically significant correlations in criminal cases between jurors» perceptions of closing argument persuasiveness and jury verdict, and finding statistically significant correlations in civil cases between perceptions of defense counsel's closing argument persuasiveness and defense verdict); James M. Anderson & Paul Heaton, How Much Difference Does the Lawyer Make?

I would argue that the combination of these two outcomes related to design patents doesn't make sense, but Apple's smartphone design patent case is strong enough that a jury can find that way, and the tablet design patent case is so strong that Apple may very well get the jury overruled either by Judge Koh or on appeal.

In all court proceedings the court shall instruct the jury of its inherent right to judge the law as well as the facts and to nullify any and all actions they find to be unjust.

Accordingly, those with possibly meritorious negligence claims should consider finding counsel well experienced in trial practice and the art of convincing trial judges and juries.

«The jury did not find their defense believable and felt it did not offer a good faith defense,» said attorney James Bedortha, who represented the family of James Parrot in the two - week long civil proceedings against Ferro Engineering Div.