Sentences with phrase «jury in the case of»

«I am extremely disappointed and can see no logic in law or reason why the U.S. Attorney's office would not proceed with a grand jury in the case of an unarmed young man killed in the bathroom of his own house when there was absolutely no threat to officers,» Sharpton said in a statement.

He is also immersed in a number of issues on the job, not the least of which is the grand jury in the case of Eric Garner, the Island man who died in NYPD custody.

In 1994, Heuer and Penrod asked judges in 67 civil trials to evaluate the performance of juries in cases of varying complexity.

Not exact matches

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.

In more than 25 years of practice, he has tried 20 federal criminal and civil cases, almost all to juries that returned verdicts.

Between 2005 - 2009, prosecutors in Houston County, Alabama had excluded 80 % of blacks who qualified for jury service on death penalty cases.

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.

Legal experts say a defense attorney's task to convince a jury that a client is legally insane is even more difficult in cases like that of Routh, who confessed to killing the men, apologized to the family and fled from police.

In the Hulk Hogan case, which was also based on an invasion of privacy claim, Harder sued Gawker Media for publishing a clip from a sex video that the former wrestler made with a friend's wife, and won a $ 140 million judgment from a Florida jury.

David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the law firm that argued the largest - ever employment gender discrimination case to go to trial — a class action suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals that resulted in a $ 253 million jury award for plaintiffs in 2010, reduced post-trial to $ 175 million — noted that in that case, the company had just three investigators for a workforce of thousands.

Here's something you may not know about court cases: There are often people in the public gallery who are paid to closely watch the members of the jury to see how they react to different witnesses.

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.

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.

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.

Coinbase has lost another appeal in a case brought by former customers of the defunct exchange Cryptsy, and the case will now proceed to a jury trial.

The judge in the case, William Alsup, and the jury that has yet to be selected have a difficult task ahead of them as they eventually work to determine whether Uber is guilty of misappropriating trade secrets.

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Coinbase has lost another appeal in a lawsuit brought by former customers of the defunct cryptocurrency exchange Cryptsy, and the case will now proceed to a jury trial.

In the case of the SEC's investigation, the jury is still out.

For the last several years, Mr. Denton has been the target of a lawsuit brought by the wrestler Hulk Hogan in the now - infamous defamation case over Gawker's publication of a sex tape — an editorial choice that recently resulted in a $ 140 million jury award to Mr. Hogan.

Hulk Hogan, center, won a $ 140 million jury award in his defamation case against Gawker over the publication of a sex tape.

Skip If that's where you rest your case for believing in God then it should be easy for you to understand why plenty of us on the jury just aren't convinced.

As one who sat on a jury in a murder case in a state that is not shy about executions, I am aware of how important it is to make sure the right person is convicted.

All of the clergy in the courtroom project have agreed to support the jury's verdict in the racially - charged case, which sparked large rallies and marches led by civil rights figures like the Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

There just plain wasn't enough evidence to support either side's version of events, in which case a jury must acquit.

In the case of these Catholic priests who did just that, they should be made to stand before a judge and jury for thier actions.

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.

I am sure that if anyone were charged with a crime, or is on trial, I am sure that if any of those lines were used in the presence of a police officer, judge, jury, etc., that person would be ticking off that person and hurting his own case.

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.

If Phelps and his co-defendants are liable for the intentional infliction of emotional distress in this case, what is to prevent another judge and jury from ordering monetary damages in a case against the owners of the proposed Islamic community center near ground zero for inflicting emotional distress on the families of 9/11 victims?

When the State Kills is the model for such an approach, with fascinating and accessible chapters on such topics as the never - ending quest for «painless» executions, the role of and pressures on the jury in capital cases, the portrayal of executions in contemporary films, and the increasingly desperate efforts of death - penalty lawyers to ensure that those who are condemned to die have received something approximating fair treatment under the law.

But you are correct that the actual case / crime only entails the actual struggle, and by that point it was just two dumb - dumbs in a fight, and the lack of evidence is what really made acquittal the only choice for the jury.

PHILADELPHIA (CNN)- Jury selection begins Tuesday in the Philadelphia Catholic Archdiocese trial, a case experts have called one of the most sweeping sex abuse scandals in America.

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.

(CNN)- A Philadelphia jury was unable to reach a verdict Wednesday on four of five charges in a landmark priest sex abuse case, according to a source familiar with the proceeding.

CNN: No verdict in Philadelphia priest sex abuse trial, source says A Philadelphia jury was unable to reach a verdict Wednesday on four of five charges in a landmark priest sex abuse case, according to a source familiar with the proceeding.

I litigated personal injuries cases for 25 years, and litigated hundreds of knee in jury cases.

Melo should please come and we need another tall defender in case of jury.

The case sparked outrage in the small community of Sitka, and a grand jury indicted Rosi on felony negligent homicide charges.

(The jury is out on whether this is the case — the habit of sucking on fingers and thumbs may have its roots in more complex causes.)

Regardless of what verdict the jury brings back in the case, Horner said the case shows how reforms need to be made on how economic development contracts are doled out.

The Attorney General (AG) filed a nolle prosequi in the case of the two, which had reached the stage where a jury was to be constituted for the trial of Daniel Asiedu and Vincent Bosso.

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, who acted as the special prosecutor in Sen. Kevin Parker's assault case, released a statement in the wake of the Brooklyn Democrat's conviction on two misdemeanor charges, saying he respects the jury's decision despite the fact that it did not deliver a felony guilty verdict.

A juror in the Joe Percoco corruption case was called for service on a second jury as deliberations stretch into the seventh week of trial.

The measures include long - sought bills such as raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18 and enhancing grand jury transparency as well as enshrining a special prosecutor for cases in which civilians die in encounters with police.

After more than 50 hours of deliberations over five days, the jury in the Bill Cosby case was unable to reach a unanimous verdict on any of the three charges the entertainer was facing.

Jury deliberations in the corruption trial of former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco appeared to have run aground on their fourth day, as three jurors issued notes asking to be excused from the case, with one expressing concern about the storm expected to slam the New York City metro area; and another saying that she has sick children.

While the jury struggled to come to a verdict in Espada's case, the feds made it quite clear they had no intention of letting him go scott free in the event of a mistrial.

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.