Sentences with phrase «of jurors with»

Assessments of non-economic damage awards in medical malpractice negligence: A comparison of jurors with legal professionals.

All of the jurors with whom I have had the pleasure of working deserve commendation.

Not exact matches

«It's OK to exclude people who can't follow the law and their oaths as jurors, but you can't say that anyone with qualms about capital punishment is ineligible,» Richard Re, an assistant law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, told Business Insider in an email.

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.

Investors told jurors they were dazzled by Amanat's claims of Hollywood ties and that he had «bragged about partying with. . .

Bill Cosby's 2005 admission that he drugged women to have sex with them was the most compelling piece of evidence leading a Pennsylvania jury to finding him guilty of sexual assault, one of the jurors told ABC's «Good Morning America» on Monday.

On the other hand, she said, jurors might be able to put their views aside while grappling with issues of ballistics and forensic evidence.

The production itself was a highly polished affair held at Deutsch's Steelhead production studios in L.A., with the jurors seated around massive tables, glowing lights making them appear as if they were a circle of overlords deciding the fate of the universe.

«Despite the discomfort that many of the jurors and our members had with Cambridge Analytica, he continued, noting that many of the jurors may not have agreed with the presidential candidate, «jurors stuck to facts and awarded the recognition based upon our guidelines, and for that, they have my respect and admiration.

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!»

The situation seemed bleak, but had Teflon existed in Beecher's time, his foes might have wondered if he were coated with it: nine of 12 jurors sided with him, his church denounced his accusers and Beecher resumed his work.

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

He sat impassively at a table with his court - appointed lawyers while a prosecutor from the district attorney's office questioned the panel of prospective jurors sitting in the spectators» section of the courtroom.

The defendant told jurors he had been beaten with a cane several times when he was a pupil at St Benedict's in the 1950s and it was «not totally uncommon» to hear of others to be caned with their «clothes off».

And unfortunately, on day two of my Whole 30, I got chosen to be a juror for a multi-week trial, throwing me completely off of my routine while simultaneously trying to grapple with the Whole 30.

How could McLain receive a just verdict when, Levine charged, Kovachevich had pushed the trial forward with undo haste and ordered jurors to stand up for exercise — in a kind of seventh - inning stretch — when Levine was interrogating a key government witness against McLain?

After weighing whether to declare a mistrial in the case of a midwife charged with the death of a newborn, a Lake County circuit judge opted Sunday night to let the jurors go home to their families and resume deliberations Monday.

«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.

Jury deliberations in the corruption trial of former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco appeared to have run aground on their fourth day, as three jurors issued notes asking to be excused from the case, with one expressing concern about the storm expected to slam the New York City metro area; and another saying that she has sick children.

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.

Lawyer James Branden told the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that when Boyland was convicted in 2014 of overlapping schemes to take cash from undercover agents to help them with a carnival permit and a real estate project, the judge gave jurors too broad a definition of the type of promised acts that the Supreme Court says would be a crime.

At one point, jurors sent out a note seeking more information from witness Laura Spence, an FBI special agent who took notes of interviews with Linda Mangano.

On Tuesday, Linda Mangano's lawyer displayed for jurors a series of emails in which she discusses work with Singh employees for what Singh has testified was her no - show job.

But, if, say, jurors ask for a read - back of evidence, the alternates join them in the courtroom, so they keep up with what's going on in the event one of them has to replace a deliberating juror.

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 latest juror issue in the trial comes after a separate juror last week asked to be excused because of her conflicting viewpoints with other jurors.

Nearly six weeks after the corruption trial began, jurors Thursday afternoon were dispatched by U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni to begin deliberations into whether Percoco, a longtime confidante of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, used his top government post to enrich himself via bribes paid by two companies with business before the state.

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.

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.

Earlier Monday, jurors were presented with dueling portraits of Silver.

On Tuesday, the fate of Sheldon Silver falls to a dozen jurors who have spent the last three weeks listening to competing versions of how the former Assembly speaker wielded power for the last decade: with secretive calculations to enrich himself or with the same quirks, favor - trading and inherent conflicts that is irrevocably baked into the state government.

Later Wednesday, Savino's pattern of answers citing his limited recollection of events led U.S. District Judge Joan Azrack to summon attorneys to talk with her confidentially and then dismiss jurors for a brief break.

Keating reminded jurors of Sinnreich's testimony in which he discussed his first meeting with Oyster Bay officials.

Zhou told jurors that defense lawyers purposely sought to confuse them over the past month - and - a-half in what he said, in the end, is a «simple case» of a top government official allegedly selling his position of power in the Cuomo administration to executives whose companies allegedly got millions of dollars» worth of insider help from Percoco with everything from stalled government payments for a Syracuse construction project to help with an Orange County gas - fired power plant development.

Within a minute of Lacewell taking the stand, prosecutors, seeking to put a face on who they were about to talk about with Lacewell, showed jurors a large image of Cuomo on a screen in the courtroom.

Prosecutors and defense lawyers proposed a cornucopia of possible solutions, ranging from finishing the trial with just 11 jurors to replacing a current juror with an alternate — a move that would require the newly constituted 12 - member jury to restart deliberations entirely.

Three of the jurors asked to be dismissed, describing — often in dramatic terms — an apparent exhaustion with the plodding trial, which is in its seventh week.

Juror Arleen Phillips was unsure if prosecutors were correct when they said ex - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver had abused his office by receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks from companies with business before the state.

By lunch break in the trial of Linda Mangano, Edward Mangano and former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, however, some jurors sat with folded arms as the exhibits and the verbal jousting between Carman and Singh seemed to go on and on.

She cautioned defense attorneys they'd run the risk of a mistrial and financial sanctions if the topic came up in front of jurors, but she said they could explore at trial «everything» Singh said about interactions with de Blasio and his administration.

Agnifilo later in the day played for jurors part of a recording that Mei made for the FBI while wearing a body wire to a Feb. 27, 2015 meeting he had with Singh at H.R. Singletons.

Greensboro, North Carolina (CNN)- After weeks of hearing from prosecutors, jurors in the corruption trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards heard Monday from his defense team, which opened its case with testimony from a former financial officer.

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In addition, prosecutors and defense attorneys occasionally would confer with each other, as the prosecutors and the defense hammered down the specifics of a jury charge — the instructions Azrack will give jurors before they begin deliberations.

On Tuesday, in the first of four notes sent by jurors to U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni, one panel member asked to be excused, citing discomfort and a difference of opinion with the others.

It was clear early on in the jury's deliberations in the federal corruption trial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver that things were not going well, with one juror asking to be excused because she felt physically unwell due feeling «pressured.»

Prospective jurors in the upcoming federal criminal trial of Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to Cuomo, are being asked to note any potential conflicts with dozens of individuals whose names or testimony may be part of corruption case.

One of the jurors had admitted wrongfully discussing the case with a relative after being chosen Tuesday, and another raised concerns that the trial would cut into parental duties.

«I believe he was guilty of taking bribes in exchange for setting up the meetings with the county chairs,» said the juror, a 26 - year - old man from Duchess County who was dismissed because he could no longer serve on the lengthy trial.

A federal judge has declared a mistrial in the corruption trial of state Sen. Malcolm Smith and one other politician because of conflicts with the jurors» schedules.