Sentences with phrase «longest jury case»

The inquests, which lasted over two years, were both the longest inquests and the longest jury case in legal history.

As the longest jury case in British history, the Hillsborough Inquest lasted over two years, and broke new ground in terms of co-operation between legal teams.

Not exact matches

Heather Dietrick, Gawker's president and general counsel, presented a more hopeful view of the case to Capital, and suggested that the Florida jury would be moved by their argument that Hogan had turned his own sex life into a public spectacle long before Gawker published this tape.

If Hogan wins his case against Gawker and the jury awards him even a part of the $ 100 million judgment, Gawker could face near financial ruin — or be forced to sell itself, which founder Nick Denton and the site's independent - minded editors have long said they would fight to avoid.

The measures include long - sought bills such as raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18 and enhancing grand jury transparency as well as enshrining a special prosecutor for cases in which civilians die in encounters with police.

That is, jury deliberations in the Skelos case aren't likely to last longer than the minute and 45 seconds that it took to convict Silver.

But in an Aug. 4 interview with Capital New York, Adler said «Grand Jury Number Two» in this long - standing case would not be impaneled until Friday, Sept. 5.

Mr. Skelos, a 67 - year - old Long Island Republican, showed no visible reaction to the jury's verdict in the case against Mr. Silver, a 71 - year - old Manhattan Democrat.

Mangano's grand jury testimony in the Skelos case occurred before the indictment of Singh on Long Island, so prosecutors in the Southern District would have had no reason then to ask him during the Skelos investigation about Singh or possible questionable activities in Oyster Bay.

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.

Mr. Litwin was not charged with any crime, though he was named a co-conspirator in one case, and never appeared in a courtroom for either trial as the juries convicted Assemblyman Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat and former Assembly speaker, and State Senator Dean G. Skelos, a Long Island Republican and Senate majority leader, of bribery, extortion and conspiracy charges.

The film charts Ford's journey to reconnect with the Long Island, N.Y., officers and prosecutors involved in his brother's case and discover how the grand jury could deem the shooting justifiable.

It may be better to provide a wide range of values from the beginning, or, in the majority of cases, none at all — the outcome of a case depends on a number of factors ranging from the client's long - term prognosis, pre-morbid history, expert analysis, and unpredictable juries.

Ideas include: 1) writing about a recent news story as it relates to your practice areas, 2) writing about new cases as they are issued and include your take on the case, 3) writing about another blogger's recent post and provide an opposing, or alternate, viewpoint, or 4) answering questions about the legal process that clients typically ask you, such as what types of information they should bring to the first appointment or how long a jury trial might last.

However, in this case the defense team was betting on the 50 % rule, which works like this: if the defense team could convince the jury that the plaintiff (my client, the injured motorcyclist) is more than 50 % at fault for the crash, the defendant (the negligent minivan driver) would not have to pay for non-economic damages, which include pain and suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, scarring and disfigurement, and other long - term problems as a result of the crash.

Lawyers say a new pilot project at Toronto Region courts that will schedule personal injury jury cases for month - long sittings could have ripple effects that would disrupt other regions.

On the flip side, if the injured party is the winner at the Louisville personal injury jury trial, the downside is that an appeal drags your case on longer and delays your recovery of the money.

During his time at Bisnar Chase, since April 2012, Long has handled a number of auto accident cases, taking a number of those cases to a jury trial and winning an overwhelming majority of those cases.

Long has a wide range of jury trial experience in cases from murder and fraud to medical malpractice in state and federal courts.

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.

Careful planning of the questions to be submitted to a jury prior to trial will go a long way in putting together an effective case for your client.

This means that for a long time now Michael Ketchmark and his experienced team of personal injury lawyers have been delving deeply into jury research and staging mock trials before they enter into a real court room with the personal injury case they are working on at that time.

As long as there is evidence to support the jury's theory of the case then the verdict should stand.

Sentencing range enhancements based on facts alleged in charges of which a defendant has been acquitted («acquitted conduct») have long been among the most controversial features of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, in part because acquitted conduct enhancements effectively nullify the jury's determination in a criminal case.

In those cases where the process takes a little longer, there is the benefit of having a better jury for the case.

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.

Trent has successfully tried or litigated some of California's most consequential cases, including the 2016 two - month long jury trial dubbed the «Santa hat» murder by local Riverside and national news media.

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.

In the recent case of Ivey v Genting Casinos (UK) Ltd t / a Crockfords [2017] UKSC 67 the Supreme Court declared that the current test for dishonesty in criminal proceedings should no longer be used when directing juries on the law in criminal cases.

Cases longer than 10 days with previously assigned trial dates between September 2019 and December 2019 will automatically be moved into the October 2019 jury sittings.

Sentencing fans have their SCOTUS cups running over this morning: in addition to the cert grants on a pair of cases dealing with the application of the statutory crack sentences in Dorsey and Hill (basics here), the Supreme Court also grant cert on a long - simmering Apprendi issue: namely whether standard of proof jury trial rights set forth in Apprendi and its progeny apply to the imposition of criminal fines.

The decision follows an opposing verdict earlier this month, in which the jury in the long - running infringement case found that certain components of Android APIs had too close of a resemblance to code used in Oracle's Java programming tools.