Sentences with phrase «last on jury»
But when I was last on jury duty, the other members were comparing coupons from different casinos to see which ones gave the best rewards.
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In Cosby's first trial last year, another jury had failed to agree on an outcome, teeing up the retrial that played out in Pennsylvania this month.
A Florida jury assessed Gawker Media millions more in punitive damages on Monday for having invaded the privacy of the retired wrestler Hulk Hogan, adding to the $ 115 million it awarded in compensatory damages last week.
A jury found Cosby guilty last week on three counts of aggravated indecent assault brought on by one woman, although dozens have accused him of sexual assault.
Jeffs was convicted by a jury in San Angelo, Texas last week on two counts of sexually assaulting children.
The jury is still out on Cech as far as I am concerned, and with the opening day loss he is now going to be hard pushed to match Ospina's record last year.
I would like to pick out your last sentence «The jury is still out on Kronke».
The jury in the Joe Percoco federal corruption trial resumes its work today, after appearing to focus much of its attention last Friday on the low - show job given to Percoco's wife, Lisa, by a Maryland - based energy company, Competitive Power Ventures, which is behind a controversial new power plant in Orange County.
Sources close to Silver say he seems no different since a jury last week found him guilty on seven federal corruption counts, and is confident he'll win on appeal.
Jury selection began yesterday in the trial of two of the three former University at Albany students accused of fabricating a racially motivated hate crime on a CDTA bus last year.
Kane's attorney, Paul Cambria confirmed to Time Warner Cable News last week that the Grand Jury proceeding had been postponed, but could not elaborate on why.
Silver's conviction on charges that he took payoffs disguised as legal fees in return for using his clout in Albany to benefit developers and a cancer researcher was overturned last year by the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals because of flawed jury instructions.
Last month, the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Silver's conviction for doing favors on behalf of a cancer researcher and developer who funneled $ 4 million legal referral fees to the former speaker, ruling the jury instructions were wrong and Silver was entitled to a new trial.
New York Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman's legislative proposals follow protests last year after a grand jury declined to indict a police officer seen on video choking an unarmed Staten Island man who died.
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit against the Rensselaer County district attorney on Wednesday, claiming Joel Abelove «flagrantly violated» an executive order last week when Abelove's office presented evidence in a fatal police shooting to a grand jury.
The court, presided over by Mrs Justice Merley Afua Wood, passed the death sentence last Wednesday after a seven - member jury unanimously found Frimpong guilty on two counts of murder.
Federal prosecutors are seeking to retry U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez on bribery and corruption charges after an earlier trial ended in a deadlocked jury last fall.
Silver was indicted by a grand jury last week on three counts, after having been arrested in late January and charged with five counts of federal corruption.
Attorney Steven Molo notified the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Thursday that he'd like to ask the high court to review last week's ruling, which wiped out the conviction but also provided the government with assurance that there was sufficient evidence to convict Silver if a jury is properly instructed on the law and decides to do so.
After Michalek testified before a grand jury, Pigeon last June was indicted on nine felony counts of bribery, rewarding official misconduct and grand larceny by extortion.
A federal jury indicted Hampton last week on charges that he broke conflict - of - interest laws because he contacted his former boss, Sen. John Ensign (R - Nev.)
Indeed, prosecutors in the Silver case told the judge in a court filing last month that if the assemblyman's lawyers introduced evidence to «shed light on his good character or his character for truthfulness,» they would want to tell the jury about a 2009 episode that they claimed raised questions about his honesty.
A jury found Silver guilty on all seven charges against him in a federal corruption trial that lasted five - weeks.
The limousine driver involved in last summer's fatal crash in Cutchogue has been indicted by a special grand jury on four counts of criminally negligent homicide.
Mr. Bharara charged Mr. Silver last month with five criminal counts, the grand jury indicted Mr. Silver on three of them, one each of mail fraud, wire fraud and extortion.
After a grand jury chose not to indict a police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner last year, Democratic leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins called for the placement of body cameras on police officers and introduced legislation that would require the use of a special prosecutor in cases involving police officers who kill unarmed legislation.
Cuomo has announced his intention to run for re-election again in 2018, a plan that may face complications after a federal grand jury indicted a raft of his closest former aides and donors on corruption charges last week.
On a Thursday night in the midst of his testimony that lasted a week, marshals went to Howe's hotel last month and brought him to a federal jail in Manhattan after Howe admitting that day before the jury that he might have violated the terms of his cooperating deal by his 2016 attempt to get a hotel tab erased from his credit card.
A federal grand jury indicted the Skelos» on the same counts as those outlined in U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara last month — one count of conspiracy to commit extortion, one count of conspiracy to commit fraud, two counts of fraud and two counts of solicitation of bribes or gratuities.
The investigation has focused on whether Abelove interfered with the attorney general's jurisdiction last year when he quickly presented the fatal shooting case to a grand jury that cleared a Troy police sergeant of wrongdoing in the slaying of a DWI suspect.
The investigation has focused on whether Abelove interfered with the attorney general's jurisdiction last year when he quickly presented the case to a grand jury that cleared a Troy police sergeant of wrongdoing in the slaying of a DWI suspect.
Last week, Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan announced he would bring the case to a grand jury, but several speakers called on the U.S. Department of Justice to take over the investigation instead.
Last week, the officer at the center of Garner's death, Daniel Pantaleo, testified in front of a grand jury on Staten Island, DNAinfo New York first reported.
A federal grand jury voted to indict former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver today on fraud and extortion charges, the allegations at the center of his arrest last month.
But White Plains federal Judge Kenneth Karas said such evidence would confuse the jury because, if true, it's a «completely different scheme» than for what Smith will be on trial beginning Jan. 5 when he faces corruption charges for allegedly trying to buy his way onto the Republican line for mayor last year.
Last month, dozens of council members, including Mark - Viverito, protested a grand jury's decision not to an indict an officer in the death of an unarmed black man on Staten Island, and members have continued to push for police reforms opposed by both Bratton and Lynch.
Lynch last month dismissed a separate motion by Maziarz's lawyers to have the case tossed on a number of legal grounds, including claims that there were «defective» grand jury proceedings.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A South Side minister who has accused the mayor, the police chief and other city leaders of persecuting him was convicted by a jury Friday on a misdemeanor charge stemming from his confrontation with police last year.
A federal jury last week convicted Silver of the crimes, which centered on having real - estate developers seeking help from the state steer hundreds of thousands of dollars in referral fees to his legal practice.
During a conference on the charges last Friday, Silver's attorneys argued that the Skilling precedent means the jury must find Silver had intentionally acted to receive the benefit of a quid pro quo relationship.
When a New York jury convicted ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on bribery charges last week, the biggest winner might have been Preet Bharara, even though he was nowhere near the courtroom.
Assemblyman Michael J. Norris, R - Lockport, answered a subpoena he received last week and testified before the grand jury on Thursday, according to attorney Joel L. Daniels.
«The jury is still on out on this until the results from the final Enceladus flybys of last year are fully analyzed.»
Last week, a federal jury deadlocked on a claim by the University of California (UC) that South San Francisco biotech giant Genentech had infringed the university's patent on the gene for human growth hormone.
Fremaux also said that Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev, who was in competition at Cannes last year with «Loveless,» will serve on the jury this year.
Shannon, who was also excellent in last year's Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner «Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,» has the tough job of conveying Joanne's slow 12 - month decline on screen.
It was while serving on that jury last year that I came to fall in love with this festival.
«Finding Vivian Maier,» co-directed by Maier's chief curator, John Maloof, debuted last November at DOC NYC and went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at the Miami Film Festival (tying with «The Overnighters» by Jeff Moss), the audience awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best New Director at the Portland International Film Festival, a Founder's Prize at the Traverse City Film Festival and the John Schlesinger Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
The Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to Fruitvale, directed by Ryan Coogler — The true story of Oscar, a 22 - year - old Bay Area resident who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family and strangers on the last day of 2008.
The film went on to win both the grand jury prize and audience award, a trend started 3 years ago with Fruitvale Station, then Whiplash, and then last year's Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.