Sentences with phrase «majority of jurors»

In the case of water on the floor, there are many variables that might lead a judge or a majority of jurors to conclude a policyholder was negligent or not.

In either Vermont state or federal court, the parties may stipulate that the jury shall consist of any number less than twelve or that a verdict of a majority of jurors shall be taken as the verdict.

But this strategy does not help with the majority of jurors, who would prefer to be taught visually, at least in part.

In the case of water on the floor, there are many variables that might lead a judge or a majority of jurors to conclude a policyholder was negligent or not.

«In a few states, like Florida, it only takes a majority of jurors to sentence someone to death.

Not exact matches

But one juror questions the assumptions of the majority.

Former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, fear that jurors will smell the «stink» of corruption if federal prosecutors get to play a secretly recorded conversation...

The corruption trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, came to a halt late this afternoon after one juror complained of chest pains.

During closing arguments in the corruption trial against state Sen. Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, a lawyer for the younger Skelos told jurors that the government's case against the former majority leader relies on burdening the jury with heaps of emails, phone calls and witness testimony to distract jurors from the lack of a supposed smoking gun.

«The unfortunate result of these limitations is that United States District Courts have access to fewer persons potentially qualified to serve as jurors,» wrote the bill's sponsor, Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle, D - Irondequoit.

During wiretapped phone calls played for the jurors Monday in the corruption trial against former Senate majority leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, the younger Skelos told lobbyists he was working with during a Dec. 12, 2014 phone call that Zucker had been personally visiting members of the Republican Senate asking if there would be any «blowback» if the state approved fracking.

While the jurors» perceptions and the attorneys» presentation skills discussed in this article affect how the evidence is presented and received, I think that most practitioners will agree that the vast majority of juries weigh the evidence fairly: They are able to see the forest for the trees and provide both the judicial system and the parties a truly fair and reasonable arbiter.

In June 1966, writing for an 8 - 1 majority, Justice Tom Clark detailed the barrage of «virulent and incriminating» media coverage of the Sheppard investigation and excoriated the failure of the trial court to control media access to jurors.

In its 5 - 4 decision in Philip Morris v. Mayola Williams, Justice Breyer, writing for the majority, held that the jury's verdict violated the Due Process clause of the Constitution because jurors had been permitted to consider harm suffered by other smokers, who weren't parties to the case, in assessing punitive damages.

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.

On any summonsed panel of jurors the vast majority will be carrying cell phones, many will be thumb typists with iPhones or Blackberries, and many will have been subjected to some form of PowerPoint abuse in their working lives.

The vast majority of states outside of the commonwealth permit a process whereby the judge and the attorneys inquire of potential jurors regarding their attitudes and beliefs on issues involved in the case.

While a majority of respondents found it unacceptable for lawyers, judges, and jurors to post updates about proceedings (by posting «status updates», «tweeting», blogging, etc) on online social networks while a matter is pending before the courts strictly for informational purposes, the majority deemed the conduct acceptable for journalists.

The vast majority of respondents from jurisdictions comprising a jury system found it unacceptable for jurors to post comments or opinions about the judges, lawyers, parties, and / or cases which they are observing on online social networking sites.