Sentences with phrase «jury in any cases at»

I would not want anyone with such subjective attitudes to serve as judge or jury in any cases at all.

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Spartanburg attorney Michael Morin, who opposed Gowdy in a death penalty case and later worked for him in the prosecutor's office, said Gowdy excelled at appealing to a jury's emotions.

Even if a jury finds that Uber stole Waymo trade secrets, Uber says in court filings that its engineers have designed around the Waymo technology at issue in the case.

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.

A jury at the Old Bailey in central London has retired to consider its verdicts in the case of a former abbot accused of sexually abusing boys at a Catholic school in west London.

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.

The morning after the jury reached a verdict in the Trayvon Martin case, I watched the sun rise over snowcapped mountains from the coffee shop at the Many Glacier Hotel in Glacier National Park.

The jury must determine whether the facts of the case as established by testimony in court fit the legal definition of the offense with which the defendant is charged — a definition likely to be complicated at best, incomprehensible at worst.

ALBANY — State government is bracing for a parade of corruption trials in 2018, with five cases involving powerful players going before juries at the same time that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and all 213 legislative seats are up for election.

«We thank Attorney General Schneiderman for his diligence in investigating and trying this case, and the jury for their service in bringing justice to New Yorkers,» she said at the time.

«They were interested in Joel Abelove bringing Randy French's case to the grand jury,» said retired Detective Sgt. Patrick Bornt after appearing before the grand jury for 90 minutes at Rensselaer City Hall.

They also say those same statements — made at press conference after Silver's Jan. 22 arrest, during a speech at New York Law School and in a CNBC interview — would ultimately taint any future jury should the case head to trial.

After being read a statement about the Eric Garner grand jury case that cast Donovan in a good light and a separate statement that cast him in a negative light, the numbers stayed at 49 - 33.

Last year, at Weitz & Luxenberg's behest, Heitler reversed a 20 - year ruling that prohibited punitive damages in asbestos cases — allowing for bigger jury awards.

Last year, at Weitz & Luxenberg's request, Heitler reversed a 20 - year rule barring punitive damages in asbestos cases, paving the way for much bigger jury awards.

The problem: The display, right outside the ceremonial courtroom where the Percoco trial is likely to occur and where jurors may congregate during jury selection, highlights about 30 criminal cases — from Abscam to Bernie Madoff — but not a single one that ended in an acquittal at trial.

The lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the charges — which allege Silver lined his pockets with nearly $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks in a stunning abuse of power dating to at least 2000 — claiming public statements that Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara made about the case «caused irreparable harm by tainting» the grand jury that indicted him on Feb. 19.

The appellate judges in Silver's case found that, under the Supreme Court's ruling, the instructions given to the jury at Silver's trial were improper and prejudicial.

Kristy Mazurek, a former TV reporter best known locally as treasurer of the WNY Progressive Caucus, the political committee at the heart of AG Eric Schneiderman's grand jury probe in Buffalo, is running for the Assembly and cooperating with investigators, but won't discuss the case.

Tom Libous, one of the state's most prominent and powerful Republican lawmakers in the Senate, has been found guilty by jury of lying to federal agents in a case stemming from his son receiving a job at a politically connected law firm in Westchester County.

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.

At 9:30 a.m., jury selection takes place in the case of in U.S. v. (former Senator) Malcolm A. Smith and (former Queens GOP official) Vincent Tabone — charged with public corruption — before Judge Karas, Courtroom 521, White Plains.

«This case is about corruption — the old - fashioned kind,» Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Boone told the jury at the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse in lower Manhattan.

In July, Republican Sen. Tom Libous was forced from office when a jury found him guilty of lying to the FBI in a case stemming from his son receiving a job at a politically connected law firIn July, Republican Sen. Tom Libous was forced from office when a jury found him guilty of lying to the FBI in a case stemming from his son receiving a job at a politically connected law firin a case stemming from his son receiving a job at a politically connected law firm.

At the same time, he conferred immunity on the officer involved in the case, Sgt. Randall French, before the grand jury voted.

Democratic City Councilman Kevin B. McGrath, 40, who testified before the grand jury that indicted McDonough and LoPorto, gave State Police a sworn statement in March 2010 in which he said McInerney was involved in collecting the WFP ballots at the center of the case.

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.

At a press conference addressing the Rev. Al Sharpton's tax troubles as well as the pending grand jury decisions in the Michael Brown case in Ferguson, Missouri and the Eric Garner case in Staten Island, a reporter identified himself as being from Fox 5, the local Fox station.

At a press conference addressing his tax troubles and the pending grand jury decisions in the Michael Brown case in Ferguson, Missouri and the Eric Garner case in Staten Island, the Rev. Al Sharpton was asked whether Rachel Noerdlinger, who worked for Sharpton before becoming chief of staff to Chirlane McCray, is welcome to return to working with Sharpton.

In a unanimous ruling, the panel considering Mr. Silver's case concluded that given the McDonnell decision, the jury instructions at the former speaker's trial were erroneous, and that a properly instructed jury might not have convicted him.

Greensboro, North Carolina (CNN)- The jury in former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards» corruption trial ended its third day of deliberations Tuesday, asking to take another look at two more exhibits in the 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.

The timing of Gurley's death comes at a particularly sensitive time for the department, which is bracing for possible demonstrations and protests in response to a decision from a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, about whether to proceed with a criminal case against a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed teenager.

Haste, who was indicted by a grand jury but had the case tossed out because of improper jury instructions from the Bronx District Attorney's Office, said he believed Graham had a gun in his possession at the time.

The judge asked if anyone had a problem with his comments, one of which was that at the conclusion of evidence in the case, he would instruct the jury how to interpret the law.

Caird came to the witness stand in the trial of County Democratic Elections Commissioner Edward McDonough and former City Councilman Michael LoPorto for ballot fraud to provide the jury with an inside look at what was happening as the case began to develop.

Edie Greene, a psychologist at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, instead suggests that the case should be split into separate liability and damages trials, so that the jury only receives the relevant facts — a process known as bifurcation.

After the judge dismissed the «jury» at the beginning of the trial (he actually didn't make us leave, the dismissal was for dramatic effect), he and the lawyers went through the procedures that would be undertaken in a real case to determine if evidence should be admitted for the jury to see.

The jury on the case, doctors at the General Regional Hospital in Bolzano, the Italian town where Ötzi now rests, discovered the flint arrowhead on X rays while searching for fractures; CT scans confirmed the verdict.

«True Conviction» — which premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival in New York and was awarded a special jury mention in the best documentary category — details two cases that Scott and his colleagues Johnnie Lindsey and Steven Phillips worked on.

That film was Pawel Pawlikowski «s stunning, enriching «Ida,» which also happened to win the Best Film award at the festival, in a rare case of my own taste matching up with a festival jury's.

The only problem is that America is still in the process of a widespread national debate about gun control, so when absolutely nothing is made of the case at the heart of the story to make room for the chases and behind - closed - doors intrigue, the issue becomes a mere afterthought, which Runaway Jury indifferently exploits for the purpose of escapism.

And now, as a result of a juried paper appearing in the prestigious journal Science, we find that, in at least one case, Arsenic can replace Phosphorous, making this a piece of information that needs to be made available to teachers and students any way possible.

It would take five years before the case would be put in front of a second jury and leave them to decide whether Arias was a cold, calculating killer or the victim of extreme domestic violence at the hands of an abusive boyfriend?

In those cases where fraud is found, we ought to bring loan officers and underwriters to court and let a jury look at the facts and circumstances.

I wanted to share with you the details of Back to Back, a figurative works show I'm jurying at Sloane Merrill Gallery this April in case you wanted to participate: Attend the opening.

Especially as the competition between national schools of abstract painting escalated, breaking out in arguments and even punches in the case of Kline and the French painter Jean Fautrier, it would follow that the internal competition within these national schools also intensified.27 This was certainly true on the French side at the Venice Biennale: in a very unusual move, two artists — Fautrier and Hans Hartung — were awarded Grand Prizes in painting, whereas normally only one was given, because the jury could not decide between the two contenders.28 Within the context of the politics internal to the movement of abstract expressionism, Meryon could thus be seen as a reassertion of Kline's original, breakthrough style as his own and thus a defence of his personal artistic identity, after Kline himself had turned to colour, around 1955, and left it up for grabs.

It may be better to provide a wide range of values from the beginning, or, in the majority of cases, none at all — the outcome of a case depends on a number of factors ranging from the client's long - term prognosis, pre-morbid history, expert analysis, and unpredictable juries.

SFL notes that lawyers who bluster that they are eager to try their complex case before a jury are actually saying that «they will be asking the guy in a tank top at Target to decide a complex question of securities law involving several hundred million dollars.»

in a case in which a witness's identification of the defendant is at issue, and the identifying witness and defendant appear to be of different races, a trial court is required to give, upon request, during final instructions, a jury charge on the cross-race effect, instructing (1) that the jury should consider whether there is a difference in race between the defendant and the witness who identified the defendant, and (2) that, if so, the jury should consider (a) that some people have greater difficulty in accurately identifying members of different race than in accurately identifying members of their own race and (b) whether the difference in race affected the accuracy of the witness's identification.