Sentences with phrase «of jurors did»

He discusses why he believes that, yes, some of the jurors did nullify.

The first time, the judge declared a mistrial after discovering that one of the jurors did not speak English well enough to understand the jury instructions.

But after Stewart's case went to the jury, the foreman reported to the judge that one of the jurors did not speak English well enough to understand the jury instructions.

Most of jurors didn't want to speak, but two spoke to CBS 2's Sean Hennessey about the difficulties of deliberations, especially when one juror seemed to have her heels dug in from the beginning.

Two thirds of jurors do not understand what judges tell them about the law when they retire to consider their verdicts, according to a ground - breaking study into the secrets of the jury room.

Not exact matches

That meant attorneys had the hard task of selecting jurors without significant ties to the marathon or too much knowledge of the crime — on top of ones who didn't already oppose the death penalty.

Levitt, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a former US intelligence agent, told jurors he did not know if the materials found on Tsarnaev's computer, including sermons by US - born Al Qaeda figure Anwar al - Awlaki and issues of Al Qaeda's «Inspire» magazine, were put there by Tsarnaev or by someone else, such as his brother.

He said that for the retrial, the defense focused less on mental health records and experts and more on getting jurors to see into the mind of the woman who Parnham said drowned her children because she thought that if she didn't they would be taken by Satan.

Nor did she meet with incredulity the jurors» decision to convict Black on three counts of fraud, and one of obstruction of justice — however fervently Black may have desired it.

Crawford told jurors she did not attend the wedding, nor did any members of the Russell family.

I said it to hotair already, but I will expand it a bit for you: what is evidence for some is not accepted by everyone; just as in a court case, some jurors are convinced with very little evidence while some people can not be convinced of something no matter how much evidence there is... much of this comes from how you were raised and your own personal world view, for many people God does not fit into their world view so whatever evidence there is they close their eyes and say, «No, I don't believe that!»

I don't agree with jurors deciding the fate of the criminals» life or death.

Potentially big news out of St. Louis today, where a grand juror in the Darren Wilson trial, who is known only as «Grand Jury Doe,» is suing St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch, alleging that McCulloch presented information in a «muddled» and «untimely» manner.

But Drath said he and the other jurors didn't want to lose sight of the victim.

Despite the lengthy deliberations, jurors said they did not feel pressured by the judge to arrive at a verdict, and they were not influenced by unusual distractions, ranging from the length of deliberations to Leitza's departure to attend the wedding to the highly visible and vocal group of midwife advocates who attended the trial.

«To the wider public who come into contact with it — as witnesses, defendants or jurors, but most crucially, as victims - this is a system that often does not deliver the level of service they expect, want or deserve,» he is expected to say later.

Silver's attorney agrees that it was «distasteful» of the former Assembly speaker to get rich off people who stood to benefit from the power of his office — but, he told jurors, that doesn't make it a crime.

One of Howe's tasks as a lobbyist was securing meetings with government officials for his clients, and he told jurors Monday that he did just that, meeting frequently with Glaser and Percoco.

Today, the jurors» questions revolved around the part of the trial that does not involve the Syracuse defendants.

The appeals court said Judge Valerie E. Caproni's instructions to jurors in 2015 did not comply with a later U.S. Supreme Court decision that narrowed the acts required to convict public officials in a quid pro quo bribery scheme to formal exercises of government power, not just meetings or telephone calls.

It didn't take long for the first pair of notes to emerge — one of which said Juror No. 2 had been selected as the group's foreman.

On Monday, the prosecution did not pursue the testosterone subject further after Mangano's defense attorney, Kevin Keating of Garden City, objected and the lawyers met with U.S. District Judge Joan M. Azrack for several minutes out of earshot of the jurors and others in the courtroom.

Just four days into the trial of a Manhattan nanny accused of butchering two children, a juror has already been booted after complaining at least twice that he did not think he could be fair.

«You didn't hear any evidence that he held himself out to Mr. Aiello or to Mr. Gerardi as a guy who would be going back into government where he could sell his office to them for the money that he was earning as a consultant during the summer of 2014,» Bohrer told jurors in his closing arguments.

Judge Caproni, in her decision, did not say she thought Silver's case was closely related to McDonnell's, but did concede that the way jurors were told to define «official acts» in corruption cases could be questioned by a higher court, in light of the McDonnell case.

In its ruling, the high court narrowed the definition of what constitutes an «official act» by a politician, making it more difficult for prosecutors to obtain convictions in cases in which it can not be made clear to jurors exactly what a politician did in return for money or services received from someone or an entity hoping to improperly influence government.

To wit, Goldstein used a PowerPoint presentation offering 16 reasons that jurors should «know» what was going on in Silver's mind — even though Silver did not take the witness stand, and even though witnesses said there was never any explicitly articulated exchange of favors for cash.

At the beginning of the session, jurors were attentive as Carman added exhibit after exhibit to the mix, in an attempt to show that the former Nassau county executive's wife — despite Singh's assertions to the contrary — did perform some work for Singh's company.

«But now the jurors have to consider that if he engages in this kind of conduct while he's under this intense scrutiny, what else might he have done or said.»

The prosecutor said the government did not want jurors thinking he was arrested because of credit card fraud.

A second note came shortly afterward, apparently from a different unidentified juror, stating that one of the jurors — the note did not specify which one — was having difficulty distinguishing whether or not giving New York State funds for «something in return is illegal.»

The outcome of the Liang case is imperiled by an unusual and unexpected question: Did one of the jurors, a retired carpenter, hide his father's criminal past in order to be a panelist at the trial?

«Don't be barreled over by somebody's view of what the Assembly should be,» the assemblyman's attorney Steven Molo urged the jurors.

So the jurors heard Adam Skelos saying such charming things as, «Do you find that at wakes or funerals, people tend to get a lot of business done?»

Some in the courtroom, who had to do shoveling and snowplowing of their own earlier in the day, wondered aloud whether every juror would make it in.

-- Zhou did some quick math and told the jurors Lisa Percoco worked less than they did over the last five and half weeks in this case while she was collecting a $ 90,000 salary that prosecutors say is part of the corruption.

Most jurors didn't speak after the verdict, but Arleen Phillips, 53, of Mount Vernon, said she was the lone juror who initially thought Silver was not guilty but was eventually swayed by Silver's failure to fully reveal his law - firm referral money on state disclosure forms.

U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni told jurors Tuesday there was «no way» the trial would be done before the end of next week.

The list of witnesses was revealed by Silver defense attorneys in motions laying out what questions they want asked to weed out biased jurors, such as, «Do you have any opinions about politicians, elected officials, or anyone that works in politics — positive or negative?»

But the defense insists she did real work, and wants to show jurors video of Lisa Percoco in her former role.

Carman made quick work of getting a few things before jurors, referring to work Linda Mangano did for restaurateur and longtime family friend Harendra Singh as low - show — rather the prosecution - preferred no - show.

Carman in his closing argument earlier this week said jurors could not decide whether his client lied to FBI agents as alleged because those agents did not make verbatim notes of Linda Mangano's statements.

As for the conviction on count No. 4, that Bruno failed to disclose his $ 20,000 - per - month payments from Abbruzzese as a consultant, the jurors had an easier time, partly because Gluchowski had advised Bruno to document what he was doing for such a large sum of money, which Bruno failed to do.

It did not take long for jurors to send a note to the judge — after 40 minutes, the forewoman asked for the testimony of nine witnesses, as well as various pieces of evidence, transcripts of testimony, tapes, and even a white board.

Another prospective juror did not seem to have strong impressions of Mr. Silver, but indicated that a political corruption case near where she lives had «tainted» her a bit and left her with the impression that the things Mr. Silver is accused of doing are not uncommon.

Kidman is a juror here of course, and Weinstein had to curtail his opening remarks in order to facilitate her appearance... which then didn't happen until a couple of minutes later.

Thivisol's best actress prize at Venice occasioned a series of articles in Variety and elsewhere about whether or not what she did was acting (one of the jurors at Venice, Anjelica Huston, pointed out to me in an interview that there were only four female lead performances, including Thivisol's, among the 20 or so competition films).

Last year's outspoken juror, producer - star Jessica Chastain (who was cut out of Dolan's film), will walk a few red carpets when she's in town selling her market title, Simon Kinberg's espionage thriller «355,» co-starring Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Fan Bingbing and Lupita Nyong» o. (They'll do a photo opp.)

The Livingston County Circuit Court Administrative Coordinator says she doesn't think the court's ever had to let an accused person go free because it couldn't find enough jurors, but - «You'd never want it to get to that point,» Toms says of all the no - shows.

When Vince was through talking that day, one of the grand jurors said, «Explain to me, to all of us, why in the world didn't you at some time go to Mrs. Reinert and warn her?»