Sentences with phrase «jury witness of»

Not exact matches

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.

We expect that to happen again — particularly because the jury was prohibited from knowing about these court rulings in favor of Gawker, prohibited from seeing critical evidence gathered by the FBI and prohibited from hearing from the most important witness, Bubba Clem.

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Poorly educated and penniless defendants often lack the means to procure competent legal counsel; witnesses can be suborned or can make honest mistakes about the facts of the case or the identities of persons; evidence can be fabricated or suppressed; and juries can be prejudiced or incompetent.

The grand jury investigating alleged collusion between Russia and Donald Trump's presidential campaign has sent a witness a subpoena seeking all documents involving the president and a host of his closest advisers.

«One witness, Leonard Genova, testified under a grant of immunity from this court,» Azrack read aloud from a 54 - page jury instruction document.

In her jury instructions, the judge noted Howe's participation in the case as a cooperating witness, noting that convictions in this case can be made «on the basis of such a witness's testimony.»

The trial is expected to last four to six weeks, and with jury selection already largely completed, prosecutors say when they kick off their case this week their third witness will be Taub — the one - time Columbia University researcher who was pivotal to one of the alleged schemes.

By Wednesday night, Caproni said — during one especially long gathering of lawyers, after the jury was sent home — that «it's going to get ugly» if the defense lawyer seeks to lead one of the upcoming witnesses.

Jury selection took place Tuesday and the prosecution has since called seven witnesses, the last of whom is scheduled to testify next Monday.

It was the Special Grand Jury's role to assess the credibility of witnesses that did testify and a judge's responsibility to make sure their conclusions were supported by the evidence.

The special grand jury's thorough findings were based upon the sworn testimony of 25 witnesses and thousands of pages of evidence which corroborated their testimony.

Prosecutors hope Taub, one of their star witnesses, will prove to the jury that Silver pushed him to refer mesothelioma patients to Weitz & Luxenberg, the firm where Silver was of counsel and from where he collected portions of settlements while allegedly funneling state health care funds to Taub's research center at Columbia University.

Singh, taking the stand for the first time as the government's star witness in its federal corruption case against Mangano, retraced the arc of his life and career to the jury in the Central Islip courtroom.

You've probably read before about how juries make up their minds about the credibility of a witness before they've even opened their mouth.

«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 defense called no witnesses, and the jury was given the rest of the week off.

The Skeloses appealed not only on the grounds that the jury instructions were improper, but they also challenged the sufficiency of some evidence and witness testimony.

Newsday reported in February 2015 that Spota's office then quietly abandoned the grand jury inquiry despite dozens of potential witnesses to the shooting and its aftermath.

The judge took harsh exception - several times - with Gitner for what the judge said was an inefficient use of time cross-examining witnesses and «wasting the jury's time.»

But he was feeling confident — optimistic that the jury had requested transcripts of testimony from nine of the trial's key witnesses.

«I will make no comment now, or during the period of time that the grand jury is convened, regarding the days that the grand jury will be sitting; who may be called as a witness before the grand jury; what any witness has or will testify about before the grand jury; when the grand jury will conclude its investigation; what criminal charges will be considered by the grand jury, or against whom the grand jury might consider any such criminal charges,» said Mr. Donovan.

The jury will likely begin deliberations Thursday, following three days of summations and after hearing 25 witnesses and viewing scores of exhibits.

The state Court of Appeals in a ruling Thursday found judges will now be required to instruct juries that witness identifications of suspects of a different race is less reliable than when people make IDs from their own race.

The state's top court ruled that judges will now be required — when asked — to instruct juries that witness identifications of suspects from a different race is less reliable than when people make IDs from their own race.

An Albany County grand jury heard testimonyyesterday from at least one key witness in a widening probe of former Sen. George Maziarz and his campaign finances that now also involves former Niagara County Republican Chairman Henry Wojtaszek.

The Grand Jury Bureau consists of a Bureau Chief, two Court reporters and a Victim / Witness Coordinator.

The Oneida County District Attorney's Office Grand Jury Bureau is tasked with scheduling, including subpoenaing of witnesses and pertinent documents, of all Felony cases that have been chosen for presentment to a Grand Jury of Oneida County.

If Judge Caproni allows the jury to consider evidence related to the public benefits of Cor's development projects, William's motion suggests that the defense might call other Syracuse - area witnesses besides Young.

Grand jury proceedings are secret in New York state in order to protect witnesses and the integrity of the process, information can be revealed through court order in compelling circumstances.

Over the course of the trial, the jury heard from dozens of witnesses, including Singh restaurant employees, limousine drivers, financial experts and FBI agents.

The jury deliberated for less than two days after hearing testimony from 26 witnesses over the course of seven days.

Lynch ruled some of the witnesses could in fact be considered accomplices but a grand jury does not need to be instructed to the same degree of precision as a trial jury.

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.

During closing arguments in the corruption trial against state Sen. Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, a lawyer for the younger Skelos told jurors that the government's case against the former majority leader relies on burdening the jury with heaps of emails, phone calls and witness testimony to distract jurors from the lack of a supposed smoking gun.

During the government's three week case, the jury has heard from roughly a dozen witnesses, dozens of wiretapped phone conversations and read hundreds of email exchanges.

«No reasonable jury could possibly find Mr. Silver guilty when the government's own star witness denies an essential element of the offense,» the defense argued.

Finally, during the height of a grand jury investigation between March and May last year, Harris allegedly instructed witnesses to lie to FBI agents, which they did.

But today a jury found him guilty today of accusations leveled last year that he had knowingly made false statements to Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and had threatened to «take out» witnesses who had threatened to testify against him.

An Albany County grand jury heard testimony Thursday from at least one key witness in a widening probe of former State Sen. George D. Maziarz and his campaign finances that now also involves former Niagara County Republican Chairman Henry F. Wojtaszek, according to several sources familiar with the situation.

Caird came to the witness stand in the trial of County Democratic Elections Commissioner Edward McDonough and former City Councilman Michael LoPorto for ballot fraud to provide the jury with an inside look at what was happening as the case began to develop.

Juries are told to discount the value of eyewitness testimony and ignore how confident the witnesses may be about whom they think they saw.

Witness the current popularity of forensics and the confidence that judges and juries are placing on DNA evidence.

These proposals include videotaping the identification procedure so that juries can determine if it was conducted properly, putting individuals in the lineup who resemble the witness's description of the perpetrator, informing the viewer of the lineup that the perpetrator may or may not be in it, and ensuring that the person administering the lineup or other identification procedure does not know who the suspect is.

This uneasiness with parties» experts is heightened by the fact that the adversarial system, relying as it does on critical cross-examination to expose weaknesses in a witness» testimony, is often ill suited to educating the trier of fact, whether it be judge or jury.

Such a jury would consist of public jurors, who would draw up policy guidelines, expert witnesses from the scientific community, and special interest groups.

«It is very difficult to cross-examine a witness when the similarities and dissimilarities are displayed, frequently magnified, for all, including the jury, to see,» says David Carson, editor of the British forensic journal, Expert Evidence.

Testimony is the verbal statement of a witness, under oath, to the judge or jury.

In the end, presiding judge Robert H. Miller decided to exclude the fMRI data, on the grounds that it contravenes the jury's right to assess the credibility of the witness.

A Florida jury convicted retired agent John J. Connolly Jr. of second - degree murder for plotting with informants James «Whitey» Bulger and Stephen «The Rifleman» Flemmi to kill a potential witness against them 26 years ago.