Sentences with phrase «number of jurors»

As is typical with omnibus Bills, instead of stopping at what needs to be done, the government went above and beyond by also adding under the proposed s 644 (3), an ability to convert a jury trial in mid-trial into a trial by judge alone, in the event the number of jurors fall below the number required to continue the trial.

Each side is given a certain number of jurors they can eliminate from the jury pool.

In order to reach a verdict, the required number of jurors must agree on each point to be decided.

The number of jurors who must agree in order to reach a verdict is different in different jurisdictions.

Attorneys can dismiss a certain number of jurors for any reason («peremptory challenges») or because of a juror can not be objective («challenges for cause»).

The judge, Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court, said a number of jurors» answers suggested that they had had a problem with what they had read about the former speaker.

Although a number of juror selection apps exist to organize information during jury selection and trial, iJuror also provides a search function.

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Juror number six was all over it, fully engaged, every word that came out of your expert's mouth in the calculations of damages, was nodding her head.

Prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan urged jurors to also consider the dozens of other witnesses and evidence presented — mostly emails from any number of state officials, including Percoco — that they say show Percoco and the businessmen engaged in a systemic pattern of bribe - making and receiving and Percoco - driven actions with state officials to try to help their companies.

The government's final witness was FBI special agent Deanna Pennetta, a certified public accountant who prepared a number of spreadsheets and diagrams based on business records, phone calls and other documents related to Silver that the jurors will be able to review as evidence.

I told him nope, that the number was part of a prosecution exhibit of Savino's handwritten notes on a sheet of yellow - lined paper shown to spectators and jurors in a courtroom at the Alfonse M. D'Amato U.S. Courthouse in Central Islip.

The government and the defense will ultimately have the opportunity to exercise a number of challenges if they feel a juror should be eliminated.

After the government and defense reviewed those questionnaires, a number of prospective jurors were removed by agreement of the parties.

With a record number of both female - directed Competition entries and female jurors last year (in fact, the jury was mostly female), I guess they feel they've bought themselves a couple of years of male domination.

By a first vote, in June, jurors brought the number of contenders down from 20 to the usual maximum of 15 «semi-finalists» in the bustling Utility vehicle category.

Then, the fourth annual «L.A. Test Drives» took place across a six day period in November with a record number of 35 jurors participating.

Each year, the museum invites a distinguished guest to award Top Honors and a number of other awards, and this year's guest Awards Juror is artist, writer and curator Robert Storr.

She curates and jurors exhibitions for a number of galleries, organizations, and magazines.

Graphic Design Sessional Instructor Susan Campbell has been awarded the Going Solo Juror's Choice Award for her sculpture installation called «Zoned Out» at the Nth Degree, a juried exhibition of works that uses numbers or mathematics, currently taking place at the Foundry Art Centre in St. Charles, Missouri.

2005 Beth Venn, New American Paintings: Juried Exhibition - in - Print, number 58, p., 150 - 153, artist statement, photos of Hurricane Camille 1969, Impala, and Flood, review of work in Juror's Comments p. 3, photo of Impala on cover.

For this year's edition, Elizabeth Neilson, Director at Zabludowicz Collection participated as a juror to select a number of graduating artists from two London based art schools to feature in ARTAGON III.

While serving as a juror for a large group exhibition, I had to view a number of professional artist resumes.

The number of artists selected depends upon the juror's decision.

Exhibit: August 11 — September 10, 2017 Awards Ceremony, Reception & Gallery Talk: Saturday, August 12, 4:00 - 6:00 PM Juror: Ashley Givens, Former Assistant Curator of Photographs, Victoria & Albert Museum, London The 2017 Photoworks Youth Competition showcases the breadth of talent among a great number of budding photographers (all 18 years of age and younger) from -LSB-...]

«The case is one of a rising number nationally in which jurors have used iPhones, BlackBerrys and home computers to gather and send information about cases, undermining judges and jury trials,» writes Courier - Journal reporter Andrew Wolfson.

Attorneys John Bergendahl and Bruce Zimet, whose clients were convicted of defrauding the US and financial institutions in a federal mortgage scheme that ran more than five years, filed the retrial motion partly because a number of prospective jurors were allegedly turned back from the federal courthouse in Orlando, Florida by the guards, who are U.S. marshals, for failing to meet the standards of that court's juror dress code.

Court costs include certain costs of trying the case such as the jurors» daily fees, the costs of subpoenaing witnesses to testify and the expense of depositions which may be used at trial, as well as a limited number of other items.

In that deposition, which was read to jurors, Cosby admitted under oath a number of disturbing things, which jurors found to be proof of guilt.

On the day of a trial the court brings in a large number of potential jurors who have been selected from the voting rolls or driver's license information or some other similar government list.

The suggestion is to take away advocates» ability to exercise «peremptory strikes» (i.e., the ability to reject a fixed number of potential jurors without stating any reason).

Law Father increases a law firm's profitability by increasing the number of quality cases a law firm has, providing case development tools that reduce the time cases take to cycle, and employing state - of - the - art trial support that helps jurors recognize the true value of personal injury claims.

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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.

During contentious deliberations, the trial judge in U.S. v. Thomas dismissed Juror Number 5 — the only black juror in a trial of all black defendants — based on the belief that Juror Number 5 was engaging in jury nullification and would not convict the defendants under any circumstaJuror Number 5 — the only black juror in a trial of all black defendants — based on the belief that Juror Number 5 was engaging in jury nullification and would not convict the defendants under any circumstajuror in a trial of all black defendants — based on the belief that Juror Number 5 was engaging in jury nullification and would not convict the defendants under any circumstaJuror Number 5 was engaging in jury nullification and would not convict the defendants under any circumstances.

2 For an extensive list of studies demonstrating the competence of juries, see, e.g., Testimony of Neil Vidmar, Russell M. Robinson, II Professor of Law, Duke Law School before The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, «Hearing on Medical Liability: New Ideas for Making the System Work Better for Patients,» June 22, 2006 at 10 («The overwhelming number of the judges gave the civil jury high marks for competence, diligence, and seriousness, even in complex cases... Systematic studies of jury responses to experts lead to the conclusion that jurors do not automatically defer to experts and that jurors have a basic understanding of the evidence in malpractice and other cases.

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37 It cited Wikipedia itself as to how it is «openly editable,» as well as a number of federal court decisions «troubled by Wikipedia's lack of reliability» and ultimately concluded the government could not show there was «no reasonable possibility» that the jury's verdict was not impacted by the internet research.38 At least one federal court has followed Lawson to set aside another jury verdict based on a juror's research on the IRS website, which, although equally beyond the scope of the evidence at trial, is undoubtedly more reliable than a website like Wikipedia.39

The court had apparently calculated that it had enough jurors, taking into account whatever challenges for cause had been sustained and the number of peremptory challenges each side had.

A growing number of recent decisions in courts across the globe have commented on the concerns raised by the explosion in social media use by jurors in trials.

There has been a growing number of incidents in the United States where lawyers have asked the presiding judge at a trial to disqualify a juror for misconduct or to declare a mistrial because of what jurors have posted on their personal blogs, Twitter accounts or Facebook pages.

After jurors have been excused for cause, the parties exercise their peremptory challenges simultaneously by striking names from a list of qualified jurors equal to the number to be seated plus the number of allowable peremptory challenges.

In every jury trial, both the Crown prosecutor and the defence can automatically reject a set number of potential jurors through what are known as peremptory challenges.

Allowing attorneys to raise Batson challenges for strikes of (perceived) GLBTQ jurors seems to open the door to challenging peremptory strikes on any number of bases that don't relate to protected classes at all.

Lawyers are mining social networks for evidence, the federal jury instructions have been amended in an attempt to reduce the number of mistrials across the country due to jurors» social media posts, and lawyers are even losing their jobs because of their careless social media postings.