Sentences with phrase «leave on the jury»

It was my choice to leave on the jury or kick them off and I was wrong.

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While they opened the trial by admitting Tsarnaev's role, he has maintained his not - guilty plea, leaving prosecutors to first convince the jury of his guilt before moving on to the question of whether he should be sentenced to death or to life in prison without possibility of parole.

The husband of murdered teacher Ann Maguire, Don Maguire, right, and his daughter Kerry, left, speak to the media outside Wakefield Coroner's Court, following the inquest jury's conclusion on his wife's death.

Artist sketch shows John Venditto, second from top left, and Linda and Edward Mangano, second and third from the right, during jury selection for their federal corruption trial in Central Islip on March 12.

Joseph Percoco, second from left, leaving federal court on Sept. 22, 2016, was among 8 charged Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016, in a 14 - county grand jury indictment as part of a wide - ranging bribery scheme.

SilentHunter, Some of the differences are that a newspaper is publishing an account and a dossier; that this is going to an independent complaints commission which the police do not control; that both supporters as well as opponents of the government will ask questions about this - in parliament, on blogs, and in many other places - no doubt pushing for an inquest with a jury, and be pushing for broader changes in policing to ensure its consistency with the human rights legislation we now have (such as those being advocated by Stuart White here on Next Left).

Rwanda has vigorously denied the allegations, and at least some academics are inclined to leave the jury out on such claims for the moment.

Dean and Adam Skelos leave federal court in Manhattan after a jury found them both guilty in their corruption case on Dec. 11, 2015.

Former Republican state Senate leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, leave federal court in Foley Square in Manhattan after a jury found them both guilty of corruption on Dec. 11, 2015.

Former Rensselaer County Assistant DA Vincent O'Neill leaves the Rensselaer City Hall and Courthouse where a grand jury is in place on Friday, Oct. 13, 2017, in Rensselaer, N.Y. (Skip Dickstein / Times Union)

I asked Carlucci if he had informed anyone of his plan to leave early (all but one of his fellow freshmen were in the house; Tony Avella is on jury duty, I'm told, not on vacation, as I had originally reported).

A Florida grand jury on Wednesday indicted Nikolas Cruz on 34 counts of premeditated murder and attempted murder in connection with the Valentine's Day shooting rampage that left 17 people dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

His trial began Monday, but he left the courthouse sometime during jury deliberations on Wednesday, the DA's office said.

Women left their mark on the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, taking the Grand Jury Prize - The Miseducation of Cameron Post, directed by Desiree...

Then, with actually only a few weeks left in manufacturing, the duo stepped down (or had been fired, the jury's nonetheless out on that one) and Ron Howard took over and apparently re-filmed a hefty bite of the film.

Netflix films have been released with comparatively little fanfare (the Grand Jury prize winner of Sundance, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore dropped onto the platform in February and registered nary a blip, with Bong Joon - ho's Okja also not succeeding in moving the needle all that much), as they seemed content with simply putting it up on the service and setting up a few awards qualifying runs in New York and LA and leaving it at that.

If Richard J. Lewis's film proved too MOR to impress Quentin Tarantino's jury (even Paul Giamatti, much fancied for the Best Actor prize, left empty - handed) it was nonetheless enthusiastically received on the Lido, earning sustained applause, and even a few whoops, at the industry screening I attended.

Asia Argento, left, raises her arm as actress Samal Yeslyamova receives the receives the Best Actress award for «Ayka» (The Little One) as Jury member Ava DuVernay, right, presents on stage during the Closing Ceremony at the 71st annual Cannes Film Festival.

The jury is out on that one at the moment, but I find I can't leave the paddles alone, wanting to take control entering roundabouts and the like.

The jury is still out on Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge's blockbuster potential, with contradictory reports flying left and right, but if there's one thing we're fairly certain

Watchdog agency steps in Until recently, the question of whether credit bureaus are investigating consumers» disputes as thoroughly as the law requires has largely been left up to juries to decide on a case - by - case - basis.

Which leaves a lot of softs / livestock trading at an inflection point — they now look very cheap vs. their more recent price history, but still not unreasonably valued in terms of longer term price charts, so the jury's still out on their future price trajectory.

Ultimately, the grand jury acquitted the museum director and declared the works «art» rather than «pornography,» but the trial left a stigma on the artist.

Especially as the competition between national schools of abstract painting escalated, breaking out in arguments and even punches in the case of Kline and the French painter Jean Fautrier, it would follow that the internal competition within these national schools also intensified.27 This was certainly true on the French side at the Venice Biennale: in a very unusual move, two artists — Fautrier and Hans Hartung — were awarded Grand Prizes in painting, whereas normally only one was given, because the jury could not decide between the two contenders.28 Within the context of the politics internal to the movement of abstract expressionism, Meryon could thus be seen as a reassertion of Kline's original, breakthrough style as his own and thus a defence of his personal artistic identity, after Kline himself had turned to colour, around 1955, and left it up for grabs.

on Sanchez Art Center (CA), Call for Artists from California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska: 2018 Left Coast Annual Juried Exhibition

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Lord Bingham maintained that while Parliament could not have intended that CPS lawyers should sit as jurors on cases brought by their own authority (even though Parliament chose not to state this expressly) there would be no objection to their sitting on cases prosecuted by other agencies — leaving CPS lawyers in the seemingly unique position of being theoretically eligible for jury service but in practice barred from sitting on the vast majority of cases brought in England and Wales, which is hardly a satisfactory state of affairs.

Assessing the impact of the Vote Leave NHS funding pledge on the EU referendum is a matter of causation, a factual question for a jury to consider and determine.

If you're summoned for jury duty in Florida keep your thoughts on your civic responsibilities and leave your personal electronics at home.

Though I won't credit all my whining about the need for the Supreme Court to start addressing all the important issues left unresolved by Blakely and Booker (see, e.g., here and here), I will celebrate the big news coming from Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog that the Court today granted cert in «a significant sequel to its series of rulings on the roles of judges and juries in criminal sentencing» by accepting for review «the issue of whether a violation of the jury's role in sentencing can ever be excused as «harmless error.»»

You are probably not surprised to learn that the Ninth Circuit punted on this part of the problem and will leave it to lower courts — the ones actually stuck dealing with juries — to figure out how on earth to ensure gay and lesbian jurors are not unfairly struck from a jury while not accidentally requiring those same jurors to out themselves.

The youth submitted that the trial judge erred (1) in leaving liability as a party (Criminal Code, s. 21 (1)-RRB- with the jury; (2) in admitting hearsay evidence under the co - conspirator's exception to the hearsay rule (and misdirected the jury on the application of that exception);...

If we are concerned about this but also care about logical consistency, then we should leave it to the jury to reject a mistake caused by intoxication on the same basis as any other, ie if it thinks that it was unreasonable on its own merits, and disregarding the prehistory of the mistake.

And then Stewart stands in front of the jury giving his closing remarks for something like 48 hours straight, inveighing mightily against an inhumane system that allows rabid dogs to roam freely on public transit systems causing infected middle fingers before he collapses in a heap, and the jury comes in with a verdict leaving the entire rest of the world penniless.

I would love to pick a jury, Sam, with my toes in the sand with the headset on, with jurors from around the world also with similar court authorized headsets and when you have these headsets on and you look to your left and your right, it's just as if you were in the room.

On the other hand, the grand jury decision, public statements by police, prosecutors, and politicians, and published articles leave out too much detail.

Obtained a defense verdict in a jury trial where the case involved allegations of negligence on the part of the bar for not diffusing a volatile situation and making sure that a patron who was kicked off the premises actually left the premises.

See, e.g., Langlois v. Wolford, 539 S.E. 2d 565, 567 - 68 (2000)(denying motion for directed verdict on issue of punitive damages because evidence that the negligent driver left the scene of an accident, was intoxicated, and had a history of DUI and other traffic violations was sufficient to support the jury's punitive damages award).

Because of an error with the jury verdict form in which an instruction regarding comparative negligence was left out, the judge ordered a retrial on that issue alone.

On the other hand, a catastrophic injury that leaves a victim permanently disabled and in need of lifelong medical care may result in a considerable settlement or jury award.

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The issue on the threshold motion with respect to Mr. Shaw's left knee injury (as it was before the jury for the assessment of damages) was whether that injury arose «directly or indirectly from the use or operation of the automobile», i.e. whether the accident caused the left knee injury.

I therefore suggest that at the new trial, to avoid the possibility of another irrational award of punitive damages, the parties should attempt to agree on a range of punitive damages for the trial judge to leave with the jury.

At issue, besides the argument that the trial judge misdirected the jury on the defence, was the post conduct evidence of Pappas disposing of some of the victim's personal belongings and attempting to leave the country, and whether this evidence was relevant on the issue of provocation.

Counsel for the accused argued the evidence was irrelevant and should not have been left to the jury on their consideration of provocation.

Although the majority preferred not to second - guess the trial judge and proceeded on the basis the defence was viable, Justice Berger came out strongly in the dissent for the defence being left to the jury as it was «for the jury to measure the Appellant's conduct at the critical moment.»