Sentences with phrase «longer judge and jury»

Mr Speaker, — the regime we have set up means that the Chancellor is no longer judge and jury of their own fiscal rules.

Not exact matches

When he was tried in Charlotte, North Carolina, in August on multiple counts of fraud and conspiracy, I judged him guilty long before the jury had, and when Judge Bob Potter gave him 45 years in prison and a half - million - dollar fine, my instinctive reaction was, good, he deserved it.

The Westchester and suburban New York City connections were underscored on Monday during the day - long jury selection process, when Judge Vincent Briccetti provided a long list of names that may come up during the trial.

Valerie E. Caproni, the presiding judge in Federal District Court, kept lawyers and prospective jurors at the courthouse late on Monday in order to ensure that jury selection did not take too long.

U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni has noted throughout the trial that the government's case is built almost entirely on circumstantial evidence, and her instructions to the jury will go a long way in determining how jurors come to assess Silver.

A long history of thinking about the role of juries has led to the rules we have — deliberate only amongst the jury with information selected by the advocates and vetted by the judge.

These include: United States v. Resendiz - Ponce, which presents the question whether the omission of an element from a federal indictment can constitute harmless error (9th Circuit says no); Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc. v. Metrophones Telecommunications, Inc., on whether a provider of pay phone services can sue a long distance carrier for alleged violations of the Federal Communications Commission's regulations concerning compensation for coinless pay phone calls (9th Circuit says yes); Cunningham v. California, a sentencing case involving whether whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law violates the 6th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution by permitting California state court judges at sentencing to impose enhanced sentenced based on their determination of facts neither found by the jury nor admitted by the defendant; and Carey v. Musladin, reviewing the 9th Circuit's decision to overturn a murder conviction of a defendant who claimed he was denied a fair trial because the victim's relatives appeared in court wearing buttons with the deceased's picture on them.

So construed question of law would include (without attempting anything like an exhaustive definition which would be impossible) questions touching the scope, effect or application of a rule of law which the courts apply in determining the rights of parties; and by long usage, the term question of law has come to be applied to questions which, when arising at a trial by a judge and jury, would fall exclusively to the judge for determination.»

The litigation process can take months or even years to conclude, and if there is an appeal of the jury's verdict or the trial judge's rulings, then the process will take even longer.

I was going to wow the jury and to make a long story short, the judge is like, «What is that?

Certifications, professional group memberships, and papers published can all go a long way toward demonstrating to the judge and jury that the testimony is not only relevant, but also that the opinion should carry significant weight.

«For too long, our courts have been manipulated by the withholding of vital evidence from judges and from juries.»

In this year - long fellowship position, he prosecuted a wide range of criminal offenses and gained valuable in - court and trial experience having tried seventeen cases before a judge or jury, and securing convictions in a majority of his trials before a jury.

If that is the case, then it may explain why the jury is taking so long to use that flip chart and calculator that they asked the judge to let them take to the jury room.

Nor do we think that this historic trial practice, which long has served the selection of an impartial jury, should be abolished because of an apprehension that prosecutors and trial judges will not perform conscientiously their respective duties under the Constitution.

Oracle has opened a bid for another trial in its long - running feud with Google, telling federal judge William Alsup that a jury verdict in May that went in favour of Google was marred by the search engine company not revealing that it planned to extend Android use to laptops and desktops.