Sentences with phrase «jury in case involving»

Federal prosecutors are presenting evidence to a grand jury in case involving both Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, The New York Times reported this evening.

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It's tricky to select a jury that won't be biased when the court case involves one of the biggest bands in the world.

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.

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.

Yesterday a federal grand jury officially indicted Councilman Dan Halloran and Senator Malcolm Smith et al. in a case involving bribery.

Instead of working with Schneiderman's office to determine jurisdiction in the case, Abelove is accused of presenting grand jury testimony and granting immunity to the officer involved in the case and withheld evidence in the process.

Democrats in the Senate back the use of body cameras for police, as well as the creation of an Office of Special Investigation to oversee grand jury cases involving law enforcement.

The state's top judge on Tuesday called for a package of reforms to the legal system's grand jury process, including transparency in cases involving deaths of civilians caused by police officers.

Manhattan DA Cy Vance Jr. has empanelled a grand jury that is taking testimony in a case involving Mayor Bloomberg's $ 750,000 contribution to the state Independence Party in 2009 that was passed on to campaign operative John Haggerty, who has never fully accounted for how he spent the cash, sources confirm.

After a grand jury chose not to indict a police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner last year, Democratic leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins called for the placement of body cameras on police officers and introduced legislation that would require the use of a special prosecutor in cases involving police officers who kill unarmed legislation.

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

Jury selection in the trial of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo confidant and top aide Joe Percoco and others involved in the Buffalo Billion bribery case starts in NYC today.

The grand jury review took place after the attorney general's office notified Abelove it was reviewing the case under a gubernatorial order giving Schneiderman's office jurisdiction in cases involving fatal encounters between police and unarmed civilians.

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.

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 former town supervisor of Ramapo in New York's Rockland County has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison after a jury had found him guilty in a corruption case involving the financing of a local ballpark.

A federal grand jury has returned a second superseding indictment in a major corruption case involving Joe Percoco, a former top aide to the governor who was snared in a state economic development scandal.

In that case, resisting the executive order, Rensselaer County DA Abelove convened a grand jury that cleared the officer before Schneiderman could get involved.

The jury, which is probing election law violations in Niagara County, indicted Ortt in a case that also involves former State Sen. George D. Maziarz.

Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan, who unsuccessfully sought an indictment last year against a white police officer in the death of Eric Garner, a black Staten Island man, expressed pity for the grand jury involved in the case in his first radio interview since becoming the official GOP nominee to replace former Congressman Michael Grimm.

The film charts Ford's journey to reconnect with the Long Island, N.Y., officers and prosecutors involved in his brother's case and discover how the grand jury could deem the shooting justifiable.

Earlier this month the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled (via Deliberations) in an interesting case that involved a jury deciding that a plaintiff should be awarded $ 336,300 in damages, but failing to adequately communicate that to the court because of confusion about how the verdict form worked.

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.»

Our attorneys obtained a jury verdict of $ 5.2 million in a medical malpractice case involving the delayed diagnosis of a spinal condition.

This is a key aspect of the law as in cases involving non-commercial drivers, it can have a depressing effect on the jury verdict.

Judges, juries, and defendants should know when outside funding is involved in the case.

Now, you can read about some of the jury verdicts and settlements we have obtained in our cases that involve personal injury, traumatic brain injury, trucking accidents, wrongful death, medical malpractice, and nursing home malpractice.

Our lawyers have consistently served as lead trial counsel in some of the region's most high - profile cases, including a nineteen - month jury trial for Solutia Inc. and Pharmacia Corporation involving PCB contamination.

We have secured significant jury verdicts and sizeable out - of - court settlements for injured individuals and their families in cases involving trucking and transportation accidents, dangerous and defective products, construction accidents, commercial plane crashes, explosions and burns caused by gas and electric power utilities, medical negligence, workplace catastrophes, and business disputes.

For instance, in a personal injury case involving a defective product, the final jury instructions will include information on both personal injury law and products liability law, as well as an explanation of the general negligence standard that may apply to both personal injury and products liability cases.

Represented a client in a state jury trial of a seminal Texas trade secret case involving the client's former employees.

A jury awarded $ 120 million verdict against a physician and the county of Los Angeles in a medical malpractice case involving a baby who suffered injury as a result of a breech birth.

Though most of his cases involve complex scientific issues, Larkin enjoys the challenge of condensing the technical issues in a case and presenting them to judge and jury in a simple, direct, and forceful manner.

Represented an international chemical company in state jury trial of a wrongful termination case involving environmental dumping allegations.

The personal injury attorneys at Morgan & Morgan have helped thousands of individuals obtain significant jury verdicts and settlement awards in cases involving car accidents, medical malpractice, nursing home abuse, and wrongful death.

Successfully obtained a plaintiff's jury verdict for a minority shareholder of a limited liability company providing care to developmentally - disabled adults in a case involving breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, and trade secret allegations

Barbara MacFarlane was successful in obtaining a medical malpractice jury verdict valued in excess of $ 1.6 million in a case involving a brachial plexus birthing injury.

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Arguably, in a case involving personal injury, technology that helped reproduce the scene or give context to how the injury arose would be helpful to a jury.

These include: United States v. Resendiz - Ponce, which presents the question whether the omission of an element from a federal indictment can constitute harmless error (9th Circuit says no); Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc. v. Metrophones Telecommunications, Inc., on whether a provider of pay phone services can sue a long distance carrier for alleged violations of the Federal Communications Commission's regulations concerning compensation for coinless pay phone calls (9th Circuit says yes); Cunningham v. California, a sentencing case involving whether whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law violates the 6th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution by permitting California state court judges at sentencing to impose enhanced sentenced based on their determination of facts neither found by the jury nor admitted by the defendant; and Carey v. Musladin, reviewing the 9th Circuit's decision to overturn a murder conviction of a defendant who claimed he was denied a fair trial because the victim's relatives appeared in court wearing buttons with the deceased's picture on them.

z4 v. Microsoft and Autodesk — Jury Trial & Appeal to Federal Circuit Represented z4 in a patent infringement case involving two patents relating to technology for reducing software piracy.

Tried to a jury verdict a case involving claims by holders of an oil and gas interest in undeveloped lands claiming loss of an opportunity for development of leasehold.

Having successfully negotiated and litigated millions of dollars in settlements and jury verdicts for victims of motor vehicle accidents, the lawyers at Altman & Altman LLP will be able to review your case and the structure of the relationship between the parties involved in order to get you the compensation you are entitled to.

Mr. Nelson has practiced in federal courts all across the United States, and his litigation experience involves all aspects of litigation from pre-litigation analysis and negotiation through jury trial, including managing discovery and disputes, taking and defending depositions, selecting and preparing fact and expert witnesses, preparing and arguing dispositive and non-dispositive motions, preparing and arguing claim construction positions and briefing, and developing case strategies regarding the infringement, validity, and enforceability of patents.

Obtained a jury verdict in favor of a physician in a case involving complications following a surgical procedure.

In cases involving drunk driver accidents, the blood alcohol test from the police DUI / DWI investigation can be used to obtain an exemption, and can also be presented to the jury if the case goes to trial.

For most people involved in a Florida rear - end collision, the «presumption of negligence» is a legal doctrine that comes into play only if the case becomes a lawsuit and that lawsuit makes it to the jury.

In State courts of Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walton counties we've been involved in well over a thousand cases and tried to jury verdict cases ranging from first degree capital murder where the death penalty is being sought, sexual battery, drug trafficking, violations of probation, domestic violence and racketeering to misdemeanor criminal charges including driving while under the influence and driving while license suspendeIn State courts of Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walton counties we've been involved in well over a thousand cases and tried to jury verdict cases ranging from first degree capital murder where the death penalty is being sought, sexual battery, drug trafficking, violations of probation, domestic violence and racketeering to misdemeanor criminal charges including driving while under the influence and driving while license suspendein well over a thousand cases and tried to jury verdict cases ranging from first degree capital murder where the death penalty is being sought, sexual battery, drug trafficking, violations of probation, domestic violence and racketeering to misdemeanor criminal charges including driving while under the influence and driving while license suspended.

Taking a case completely to trial is often done in only the most egregious accident cases because it gives a sympathetic jury an opportunity to award punitive damages along with compensatory claims, especially when an accident involved a drunk driver or speeding driver or a commercial vehicle.

They are not allowed in custody cases, unless the case also involves support or asset division, in which case the jury could hear the other issues.