Sentences with phrase «jury questions»

This case provides a good example, and a word of caution, to both plaintiffs and defendants when proposing potential jury questions.

With more than two decades in federal criminal practice — from conducting the grand jury questioning of President Clinton to defending targets in financial investigations and political corruption cases — he offers authentic experience and absolute discretion in handling the most challenging, high - profile proceedings.

Many SDNY judges accept at least proposed jury questions from counsel and, if the case is high profile, a written questionnaire.

At the conclusion of the case prior to trial, counsel brought up the issue of whether the proposed jury questions should be put to a jury for deliberation.

He was asked what he saw at Wounded Knee, and he answered a number of grand jury questions which he felt did not violate any confidences.

This is more problematic in criminal trials, where jury questions could provide evidence pushing a case over the threshold of proof needed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the prosecution failed to provide, than in civil cases with a preponderance of the evidence standard.

Facts This ruling on jury questions stems from an action brought by Marta Day as a result of a motor vehicle accident that occurred on December 12, 2012.

The court in Basandra cautioned counsel to properly structure jury questions so as to allow the trial judge to adequately allocate the deductions.

Maryland caselaw allows the trial judge to run that entire jury questioning show, except that Maryland judges often will permit the parties to ask some follow - up questions to individual potential jurors.

Smith has asked a federal district court in Nashville to certify the trial - by - jury question under the state constitution to the Tennessee Supreme Court, which will decide that constitutional law question while the rest of the case remains in federal court.

In that regard, he was one of three prosecutors selected by Judge Starr to conduct the grand jury questioning of President Clinton.

Detective Michael Milici, a 26 - year veteran assigned to the 66th Precinct in Brooklyn, had been put on modified duty and stripped of his badge and gun after refusing to answer federal grand jury questions.

The language of the jury question on causation must reflect the «but for» test and ought to track the language of Clements, although having the wrong wording does not necessarily produce a substantial wrong or miscarriage of justice.

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Don't get me wrong; voir dire (the process of asking the jury questions) should not be hurried and the time spent on careful juror selection has a massive impact on the verdict we get for clients, but there are more efficient ways to go about this.

They'll know what is like to make instant rulings, and have actual experience with jury deliberations and jury questions.

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Note that in the following cases, the parties are at the Georgia Appeals Court level, and the cases are at the Summary Judgment stage of litigation, where the Landowner is trying to get a judge to go ahead and decide the case because Landowner contends that the law so clearly favors his position that there is no jury question.

Unfortunately for Mr. Sacks, while the Court of Appeal agreed that the trial judge did not properly instruct the jury on causation or in the formulation of the jury questions, it did not find that the jury's verdict would have been different if properly instructed.

Did any legal error in the jury questions or the jury instructions deprive Mr. Sacks of a fair trial?

He appealed the convictions, arguing that the trial judge erred in admitting evidence of his prior discreditable conduct, charged the jury in an unfair and unbalanced way, and answered a jury question improperly.

While the Court found errors in the jury questions, it found that using a «global but for» test for causation would not have resulted in a different verdict in this case.

While the Court agreed with the appellants that the jury questions and instructions were problematic, the deficiencies in them did not affect the outcome.

The Court set out the governing principles for determining the jury questions and jury instructions, considered the trial judge's decision on the jury questions and instructions, and addressed the arguments of the parties.

Jury questions should respond to the facts in issue and be logically sequential.