Sentences with phrase «jury indictment from»

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In PA the DA would be all over that considering the recommendation for indictment came from a grand jury.

The defense's controversial decision to seek an acquittal rather than allow the jury to consider manslaughter was based on proving the earlier injury because the prosecution's indictment said the baby died from a single incident of what their experts called «shaken baby impact syndrome.»

Joseph Percoco, second from left, leaving federal court on Sept. 22, 2016, was among 8 charged Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016, in a 14 - county grand jury indictment as part of a wide - ranging bribery scheme.

«We have heard today from one of my US lawyers that there may be a US indictment for espionage for me coming from a secret grand jury investigation,» the Wikileaks founder told Sky News.

Reports on the no indictment grand jury decision in the Eric Garner death case plus reaction from congressional leaders, and a progressive fight against charter schools.

From the indictment by the grand jury of the County Court of Erie County for first - degree murder in State of New York v. Leon Czolgosz, September 16, 1901.

«The second relates to information that was concealed from the grand jury which returned the indictment, that we discovered when we received all of the prior witness statements as we were on the eve of trial, when a lot of the material was disclosed.»

The grand jury indictment said he used that position to mask bribes and kickbacks, including more than $ 3 million earned for referring asbestos sufferers to the firm from a doctor whose medical research secretly received $ 500,000 in state funds at Silver's direction, as well as other benefits.

DeLay had been declared ineligible to run by Texas Republican Party Chairman Tina Benkiser after he retired from Congress on June 8, following an indictment by a Texas grand jury on state money laundering charges and amid scandals involving several political associates and former staffers.

The grand jury indictment against Ortt involved allegedly false filings of election campaign documents over what Schneiderman said was an illegal scheme intended to make up for a $ 5,000 cut in pay Ortt would get as mayor from posts he held as North Tonawanda city clerk and treasurer.

The grand jury, which met for two months, reviewed thousands of pages of documents and heard testimony from 21 witnesses — including eight sexual abuse victims — did not hand down indictments, name pedophile priests or identify parishes where abuse took place due to the constraints of the law.

«He was going to orchestrate a grand jury investigation of me for these allegations with the intention of not coming out with any indictment but... that I either be removed from office as county chairman or resign,» Wade said.

In 2012, a Nassau jury convicted the trio on charges stemming from a 2010 indictment that said they steered a project — that later failed — to revitalize New Cassel's downtown to a developer willing to «pay to play,» sold false exclusivity rights to a bank, and stole $ 150,000 in public funds.

A judge ruled the jury reached the verdict against the preponderance of evidence in the case because prosecutors strayed from the legal theory presented in the original indictment.

The original manslaughter indictment against Haste was dismissed in May by Supreme Court Justice Steven L. Barrett, who ruled that prosecutors from the office of Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson erred when they instructed the grand jury that it did not have to consider communications other officers gave Haste that Graham, 18, had a gun.

After Haste's manslaughter indictment was thrown out due to improper jury instructions from the Bronx District Attorney's office, a second grand jury declined to indict Haste in August 2013.

Lattman writes that the U.S. Attorneys office in Los Angeles has scheduled a conference for 12:15 p.m. PT to announce an indictment to be returned from a federal grand jury.

Forty four of the charges resulting from a grand jury indictment carried a mandatory sentence of life in prison as a sex offender had the client been convicted.

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.

The district judges shall be elected by the qualified electors of their respective districts, and shall hold office for the term of 6 years (excepting those elected at said first election) from and including the first Monday of January, next succeeding their election and qualification; provided, that the First Judicial District shall be entitled to, and shall have three district judges, who shall possess co-extensive and concurrent jurisdiction, and who shall be elected at the same times, in the same manner, and shall hold office for the like terms as herein prescribed, in relation to the judges in other judicial districts, any one of said judges may preside on the empanneling [empaneling] of grand juries and the presentment and trial on indictments, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by law.

Collaborated with law enforcement to wage extensive fact investigation in all criminal matters from indictment to jury trial.