Sentences with phrase «jury instructions after»

If the justices want to be more explicit about role definitions for trial judges, then, and as odd as it may seem, they might also try writing jury instructions after reading their opinions and before they are published.

Jury instructions after closing statements are usually much more complex and detailed than preliminary instructions.

The conviction was reversed for faulty jury instructions after the Supreme Court narrowed the definition of an «official act» that must be performed as part of a criminal quid pro quo arrangement.

Not exact matches

«Although finding that the Supreme Court's McDonnell decision issued after Silver's conviction required a different legal instruction to the jury, the Second Circuit also held that the evidence presented at the trial was sufficient to prove all the crimes charged against Silver, even under the new legal standard.»

«Although finding that the Supreme Court's McDonnell decision issued after Silver's conviction required a different legal instruction to the jury, the Second Circuit also held that the evidence presented at the trial was sufficient to prove all the crimes charged against Silver, even under the new legal standard,» Kim's statement reads, in part.

«Although finding that the Supreme Court's McDonnell decision issued after Silver's conviction required a different legal instruction to the jury, the Second Circuit also held that the evidence presented at the trial was sufficient to prove all the crimes charged against Silver, even under the new legal standard,» Kim's statement said.

The stunning ruling comes just days after the same court upheld the bribery conviction of former Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. on similar grounds questioning the jury instructions.

The top court decision, which came shortly after the Skelos and Silver verdicts, clarified what constitutes an «official act» of corruption and defense lawyers in both cases contend that the ruling invalidates legal instructions given to their Manhattan juries.

After receiving instructions from the judge, the jury of eight women and four men began deliberating the outcome of the corruption trial of State Senator Dean G. Skelos and his son, Adam.

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.

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More detailed instructions on the installation schedule for accepted works will be communicated to the artists after the juried process.

According to an affidavit filed by one of the jurors after the trial, the jury unanimously agreed that the plaintiff, Martha Sienkowski, should be awarded $ 336,300 but «we had trouble trying to figure out the verdict form, and sent a note through the bailiff to that effect seeking further instructions.»

But after Stewart's case went to the jury, the foreman reported to the judge that one of the jurors did not speak English well enough to understand the jury instructions.

The trial court found that Thomas» requested jury instruction based on the statute was not warranted because he retreated to his vehicle after firing a weapon on someone else's property.

The first time, the judge declared a mistrial after discovering that one of the jurors did not speak English well enough to understand the jury instructions.

The Appeals Court also found that the lower court judge's curative instructions to the jury, after striking the evidence, was sufficiently «rigorous and emphatic» to remedy any potential prejudice.

After making this ruling, the trial judge provided the jury with a mid-trial instruction on the limited use to which they could put a prior inconsistent statement.

November 03, 1999 745 So.2 d 423 1999 Defendant was entitled to remittitur after jury misconceived court's instructions and increased verdict.

Defendant was entitled to remittitur after jury misconceived court's instructions and increased verdict.

A jury instruction shall be given both before and after the appearance of the facility dog with the witness and at the conclusion of the trial.

After a jury returned a verdict in favor of the doctor in a medical malpractice case, an estate executor appealed on two questions of abuse of discretion: limitations on the scope of questions during the defendant's deposition, and refusal of jury instructions tendered by the plaintiff.

At the conclusion of counsel's submissions, and the court's instructions, the jury after deliberations determined that the Plaintiff had not been injured in the accident.

Fred was a contributing editor for Model Jury Instructions Employment Litigation (American Bar Association: 1994); the author of «Taxing Our Civil Rights,» Employee Rights Quarterly (Summer, 2000), and «Paper Promises: Race and Ohio Law After 1860,» History of Ohio Law (Ohio University Press: 2004).

This issue came up in that state after the legislature adopted a jury - nullification law several years ago and the courts ruled that the judiciary's existing jury instructions were sufficient.

After standard jury instructions (that even this lawyer has to admit were less than pellucid on wrongful death vs. survival actions), the case was given to us.

After 20 + years of trying, New Hampshire legislature again to take up mandatory jury nullification instruction

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