Sentences with phrase «not jury cases»

[35] The plaintiff argues that the cases cited by the defendants in which a plaintiff's financial circumstances were considered in relation to future wage loss were not jury cases.

Not exact matches

«It's not infrequent grounds for a reversal... but there is a well - established case law on improperly selected juries.»

That is to say, the court will decide whether the «beyond a reasonable doubt» clause applies when a jury is deciding whether capital punishment should even be considered in a case, not just when it's applied.

Did he figure that the jury would have responded differently had it known that the case wasn't pitting a wrestler against a rude and smutty New York Web empire but was really a multibillionaire's personal vendetta?»

Florida's state Supreme Court ruled that a defendant in a capital case doesn't have the right to have a jury determine that.

The Village Voice would have been equally offensive to a jury in Tampa [where the case was tried] 40 years ago, but it would not have been read by people on a Tampa jury.

A settlement means that we're going to not chance it to the jury to make a decision, we agree to disagree on whether anyone did anything wrong but we're making a practical business decision, we're going to pay this much to be done with this case and not test the waters.

Here's something you may not know about court cases: There are often people in the public gallery who are paid to closely watch the members of the jury to see how they react to different witnesses.

It's tricky to select a jury that won't be biased when the court case involves one of the biggest bands in the world.

I wouldn't say that a finding by the jury of infringement in this case is going to open up the door to a lot more similar cases being filed against Led Zeppelin per se.

If I were on the jury prosecuting the case, the other 11 jurors couldn't get me to say «guilty» no matter what.

Denton faces a judge and jury who are skeptical of, if not outright hostile to, his blog empire and philosophy of reporting the «story behind the story,» and some inside Gawker say that they expect the company to lose the case.

Skip If that's where you rest your case for believing in God then it should be easy for you to understand why plenty of us on the jury just aren't convinced.

As one who sat on a jury in a murder case in a state that is not shy about executions, I am aware of how important it is to make sure the right person is convicted.

There just plain wasn't enough evidence to support either side's version of events, in which case a jury must acquit.

«However, I intend to do so before an independent Tribunal, not before yourselves acting as a judge and jury in your own case.

If I couldn't be trusted to judge innocence or guilt in that litigation, what was the likelihood that I would be seated on a jury in a murder case?

(CNN)- They didn't serve on the jury, weren't plaintiffs in the case, nor did they watch in the courtroom.

I'm not going to rush to judgment — grand juries indict in almost every case.

Companies with fewer than 50 employees are not likely to be subject to federal laws that govern how employers handle leave for family and medical reasons, bereavement, military leave, jury duty, court cases and voting.

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, who acted as the special prosecutor in Sen. Kevin Parker's assault case, released a statement in the wake of the Brooklyn Democrat's conviction on two misdemeanor charges, saying he respects the jury's decision despite the fact that it did not deliver a felony guilty verdict.

Question is, what would the numbers be if you normalize for prosecutor bending to public pressure and sending LE - defenant cases to the jury (to avoid public backlash, or pressure from the Feds) that clearly have no way of being successfully prosecuted and would NOT be brought to the jury by the same prosecutor for a civilian without publicity involved?

WASHINGTON — Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan — under fire for not securing a grand - jury indictment in the Eric Garner chokehold case — is being touted to replace convicted tax cheat Michael Grimm in Congress, sources have told The Post.

He also proposed lifting some of the secrecy that surrounds the grand jury process, and the creation of a special monitor to investigate cases where a citizen dies after an encounter with a police officer, and the officer is not indicted.

The case will not make it in front of a jury any time soon.

The remaining case against Andy Coulson ended today after the jury failed to return a verdict, but not before the judge issued a stinging rebuke to the prime minister for nearly causing it to collapse.

After several days considering the case, the jury informed the judge they would not even be able to reach a majority verdict.

Addressing the grand jury decision to not indict the police officer who caused Garner's death, Sharpton «connected the dots» of other cases of African Americans or Latinos killed by police, from Anthony Baez and Abner Louima to Michael Brown and Akai Gurley, urging action.

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.

In the case of Garner, whose confrontation with police was captured on a dramatic video on which Garner can be heard repeatedly saying he can't breathe, former Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan declined to release minutes from the grand jury.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday threw out the 2015 conviction of former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on honest services fraud because the charge to the jury did not comport with the Supreme Court's 2016 decision in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, which narrowed the definition of an «official act.»

After the governor's proposals to elevate the threshold of adult criminality to 18 years and to create a special monitor to review cases where a grand jury decides not to indict a police officer for killing a potentially unarmed civilian failed to make headway in the State Senate, Mr. Cuomo rolled out a pair of executive orders.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, meanwhile, has said he would appoint a special monitor in cases in which police officers are not indicted in grand jury cases.

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.

The PM's intervention clearly came close to ending the case altogether, had the jury's failure to agree not delivered the same result.

Several officials, including the head of the NYPD's biggest union, former mayor Rudy Giuliani, for whom Bratton served as police chief in the 1990s, and former Gov. George Pataki have criticized the mayor in the wake of the officers» deaths and ongoing protests against grand jury decisions not to indict police in the Garner and Brown cases.

The state's two U.S. senators on Wednesday called for a federal investigation into the death of Eric Garner after a State Island grand jury decided not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the case.

For prosecutors, retrying a case — recompiling witnesses and exhibits, reviewing old jury arguments — often does not have the same spark as the first time.

The jury said it couldn't reach a unanimous decision on a fourth defendant in the case, energy company executive Peter Galbraith Kelly, who had been accused of arranging a $ 90,000 - per - year job for Percoco's wife.

Molinari said he doesn't think the grand jury decision in the Eric Garner case will hurt Donovan, even as some criticized the district attorney's handling of the case.

Spota has maintained that he empaneled a grand jury to look into the matter, but that it could not develop a case, if any, against officers because Moroughan refused to cooperate, and instead deciding to sue civilly.

The problem: The display, right outside the ceremonial courtroom where the Percoco trial is likely to occur and where jurors may congregate during jury selection, highlights about 30 criminal cases — from Abscam to Bernie Madoff — but not a single one that ended in an acquittal at trial.

Last week, as the jury first convened to deliberate, a juror sent a note to the judge, Valerie E. Caproni, asking to be excused from the case and saying she was «feeling pressured, stressed out... told that I'm not using my common sense, my heart is pounding and my head feels weird.»

After a grand jury chose not to indict a police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner last year, Democratic leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins called for the placement of body cameras on police officers and introduced legislation that would require the use of a special prosecutor in cases involving police officers who kill unarmed legislation.

Adler, who was selected in 2012 after Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan recused himself from the case, wouldn't comment why he needed more time, citing grand jury secrecy.

Kristy Mazurek, a former TV reporter best known locally as treasurer of the WNY Progressive Caucus, the political committee at the heart of AG Eric Schneiderman's grand jury probe in Buffalo, is running for the Assembly and cooperating with investigators, but won't discuss the case.

The lack of an agreement comes after Assembly Democrats sought a number of measures designed to change criminal justice procedures, including a special prosecutor to handle certain cases as well as new requirements for grand jury transparency when an indictment is not issued.

Some of those connected to the case call Ortt a Schneiderman «target,» noting he did not follow a string of Maziarz associates into the grand jury earlier this month and therefore was not granted immunity.

Under a scenario being discussed with interested parties, once a grand jury decides not to indict, the DA would be required to transmit all records from the case — including grand jury transcripts — to the state entity doing the review.

«I think there are a small number of cases that could arise where the sensitivity in intelligence or security terms is such that you couldn't have a jury or inquest there and they be set aside where there are certain constraints and safeguards,» he explained.