Sentences with phrase «learning of the guilty verdict»

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Still, while the Dewey proceeding ended in mistrial and several not - guilty verdicts, there are plenty of lessons lawyers and law firms can learn from this financially complex case.

With the very narrow, newly created exception for guilty verdicts in criminal cases reached based upon racial or other kinds of impermissible prejudice rather than the facts of the case (or cases where there is an outside influence on the jury such as a bribe or someone looking up facts or law on the Internet), no one can challenge a jury verdict based upon the reasoning and conclusions actually made by the jurors, even if someone learns that the jury knowingly or accidentally didn't follow the law or was mistaken about the facts.