Sentences with phrase «member jury charged»

The 12 - member jury charged with deciding this year's nominees was chaired by Oscar - winning producer David Parfitt -LSB-...]

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Once Pell had been charged, its publisher removed it from local bookshops to avoid influencing the deliberations of jury members.

A week later a new grand jury with the full 18 members indicted Kerrick on voluntary manslaughter charges, which carry a minimum prison term of three years.

In many instances I risked the practice's and my own credibility, my license, and even my freedom because as a practitioner working outside the norm, I could face criminal charges for supporting a woman's individual rights when those decisions differ from the standard of care or from what the average jury member would choose for their own healthcare.

This was after a seven - member jury unanimously pronounced him guilty on the charge of murder.

If you live in Manhattan's 65th State Assembly district (the Financial District, Chinatown, the Lower East Side, Little Italy and Battery Park City), you'll be voting for an assembly member to replace former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who'd held his seat for nearly 40 years before a federal jury found him guilty in November on charges of fraud, extortion and money laundering.

«A seven - member international jury made up of artists, curators, and museum directors selected Salcedo, a [Colombian] sculptor and installation artist whose politically charged work, in her words, aims to «connect worlds that normally are unconnected, like art and politics.»»

A seven - member international jury made up of artists, curators, and museum directors selected Salcedo, a sculptor and installation artist whose politically charged work, in her words, aims to «connect worlds that normally are unconnected, like art and politics, like the experience of the lost lives of victims of political violence with the experience and memories of the viewers who approach or contemplate the work.»

in a case in which a witness's identification of the defendant is at issue, and the identifying witness and defendant appear to be of different races, a trial court is required to give, upon request, during final instructions, a jury charge on the cross-race effect, instructing (1) that the jury should consider whether there is a difference in race between the defendant and the witness who identified the defendant, and (2) that, if so, the jury should consider (a) that some people have greater difficulty in accurately identifying members of different race than in accurately identifying members of their own race and (b) whether the difference in race affected the accuracy of the witness's identification.

[2] Mr. Triffon is charged with attempting to «obstruct or pervert or defeat the course of justice in a judicial proceeding by threatening to use his vote, position and influence as a jury member to cause a «hung jury» irrespective of the evidence at trial.»

It is against public policy for a defendant to be acquitted of a charged offense or convicted of a lesser included offense based upon an appeal to the societal bias that may be possessed by members of a jury.

Inclusion in the Texas Top 100 by National Trial Lawyers Association Inclusion in the National Top 10 by the National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys Appointed a Member of the State Pattern Jury Charge Committee by the President of the Texas State Bar, 2014 Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation Member of the College of the State Bar of Texas

The new subchapter would require a judge's charge to a jury instruct the members of the jury of their duty to:

Is it that jury members can be punished afterward for nullifying a charge by disobeying the judge's directions?