Sentences with phrase «jury hears the case»

If the jury hears your case and can see themselves in the face of your client, YOU WIN!

In the US the damages regime is very different: Juries hear the case and set damages, which can then be trebled by the judge, if he or she considers the Defendant should be punished.

This is then followed by a trial here a jury hears the case.

Not exact matches

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.

A grand jury will hear the case June 11.

The local DA aid that Jones» case will soon be heard by a grand jury.

«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!

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.

Retired Troy Police Detective Sgt. Patrick Bornt leaves the Rensselaer City Hall Thursday Sept. 28, 2017 in Rensselaer, N.Y. where a grand jury is hearing the case against Rensselaer County District Attorney

Retired Troy Police Detective Sgt. Patrick Bornt leaves the Rensselaer City Hall Thursday Sept. 28, 2017 in Rensselaer, N.Y. where a grand jury is hearing the case against Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove.

Also at 9:30 a.m., a protest precedes a 10 a.m. hearing in a state lawsuit seeking the release of grand jury proceedings in the Eric Garner case.

During jury selection, Judge Vincent Briccetti asked potential jurors whether they heard of any other state political corruption cases.

Our correspondent reported a jury would be constituted to hear the murder case, noting the judge indicated it should not have less than seven people.

A federal grand jury in Manhattan has begun hearing evidence in the case, which focuses on two de Blasio fund - raisers — Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg — with investigators trying to determine if the two men benefited from some type of favorable municipal action, or the promise of some action, in exchange for their donations, their fund - raising or some other gesture.

Among those discussed is allowing the release of evidence and testimony heard by a grand jury in cases where a civilian is killed by police.

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 jury was deadlocked several times, but finally concluded its business after U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni called upon jurors, who have been hearing the case since late January 2018, to come back after last week's nor» easter and resume deliberations.

But the courts are setup in such a way that a jury of NON Medical professional hear these cases and award large sums because of the sob stories presented at the lawyers.

The case against the husband of Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks will move forward when a grand jury is convened to hear his testimony, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Wednesday.

Trey Smith, a defense attorney and former Rensselaer County prosecutor, said juries in the county won't have to hear directly about the French case from lawyers.

During the government's three week case, the jury has heard from roughly a dozen witnesses, dozens of wiretapped phone conversations and read hundreds of email exchanges.

New York City Public Advocate Letitia James will file a brief today with the New York State Supreme Court seeking expedited appeal hearings against the denied petitions to release grand jury transcripts and evidence in the Eric Garner case.

Bratton's comments came at a wide - ranging state Senate hearing on public safety during which he forcefully defended comments Mayor Bill de Blasio made after a grand jury declined to indict in the Eric Garner case and acknowledged the size of the NYPD's patrol force is too small.

«There are states that have grand juries designed specifically to conduct an investigation and write a report, but you don't get that at the federal level, so it's either indict or you don't hear about the case again,» he said.

In interviews in recent days, eight members of the jury that heard the case against the former state Senate majority leader said they learned a lot about New York's political and governmental structure.

After a court hearing Friday, Dean Skelos spoke about the case publicly for the first time, calling the charges — a key piece of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's crusade against Albany corruption — a «prosecution that should never have been brought» and predicting the jury «will find my son and myself innocent.»

Garner's case is being heard by a Staten Island grand jury and Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson is investigating Gurley's shooting death.

But it was clear late on Thursday, with the parties and the judge seated around a conference table and the jury not present, that Mr. McDonald and Mr. Kry had critical roles as legal specialists in the case — «the law guys,» as several experts put it — a role the public rarely hears about.

Prosecutors are wrapping up Dean and Adam Skelos in a bow for the jury hearing their corruption case.

I have mixed feelings about it, because a part of me thinks it would be a great experience to be selected for a jury but then another part of me was really relieved to not have been chosen both because of the timing (it never seems like I there is a good time to get chosen for jury duty — there's always a critical project at work) and because I am afraid of what I might hear / see during a court case.

His own record of being an aggressive willing combatant in the slur wars will work against him should this case actually get in front of a jury and the jury hears the available evidence (which is pretty conclusive) on that point.

(The Post and Courier, Obscenity case will be heard by jury)

For Judge Arthur Cooperman, who's hearing the case without a jury, to convict on the top counts of first - and second - degree manslaughter, he'd have to believe «that they planned it and they all had the same mind - set,» says veteran defense attorney Marvyn Kornberg.

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.

Additionally, Russell has taken more than a dozen major cases through jury verdict, final arbitration hearing, and appeal.

Mr. Stellabotte is a registered patent attorney and has extensive experience litigating patent, copyright, trade secret, antitrust, contract, tort, trademark, false advertising, and information technology related matters in federal and state trial and appellate courts, including case preparation and strategy, fact and expert discovery, depositions, motion practice, Markman hearings, preliminary injunction hearings, bench and jury trials, arbitrations, mediations, appeals, and settlement negotiations.

In such cases, the judge may declare a mistrial, which means that the entire trial process can begin again with a new jury to hear the case.

If there are accusations about domestic violence in a child custody case, the judge has to hold an «evidentiary hearing» (a trial before a judge without a jury) to decide whether a parent has engaged in one or more acts of domestic violence against the other parent, the child, or another family or household member.

Other cases heard by the Circuit Courts include mechanics» liens and misdemeanor violations transferred from the District Courts for jury trials.

In civil cases that use sequestered juries, sequestration is not required during the trial itself, but begins when the jury has heard all the evidence and starts to deliberate.

But you have to keep in mind that in New York because of the threshold level of injury requirement, juries are more likely to hear a serious injury case than a jury would in, say for example, Maryland.

According to the London Free Press, Gorman took advantage of a rarely used provision in the Criminal Code in order to fill a jury seat after coming up one person short of the panel needed to hear a case against three men charged with assault, threats, and forcible confinement.

Should your case not settle at the pre-trial conference it will be set it for a further settlement conference, motion hearing, or jury trial.

If the initial complaint or other earlier filings had contained a claim for punitive damages, or even an allegation that the defendants acted maliciously, willfully, recklessly, wantonly, fraudulently, or in bad faith, the Court would have likely allowed the punitive damages issue to be heard by the jury, and the plaintiff may have received a larger award at the conclusion of the case.

Having a witness that can testify about exactly what he or she saw, heard, and experienced is of great importance to proving your case to a jury.

[7] Usually this matter, in jury cases, is left until all of the evidence has been heard.

Medical malpractice cases can be extremely complicated for juries, as a group of 12 ordinary citizens has to hear complicated medical testimony filled with foreign terms and decide whether the professionals being sued fell short of their standard of care.

Recovery of Damages We might hear of extraordinarily large jury verdicts in catastrophic injury cases, but there are times when those verdicts just can not be collected.

Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) and media boutique Russells Solicitors are advising on the a dispute between former Smiths frontman Morrissey and music magazine NME which could see one of the first UK libel cases heard before a jury in recent years.

I do not want a hostile jury panel before the case has begun, so we may discuss whatever has been produced in court at pre-trial motion hearings.