Sentences with phrase «of jury service»

Davey had been directed about the use of the internet and social media in a variety of ways: he was sent a copy of «Your Guide to Jury Service»; he was shown a video that contained the injunction not to «use social networking sites to post any aspects of your jury service»; the jury manager gave the jury a speech with a similar warning; in the jury lounge were six notices to a similar effect; and on the first day of trial the judge said this:

We'll have a lot more videos to feature on our blog Freedom Fridays and elsewhere on our website to educate potential jurors about how they can use the opportunity of jury service to protect all of our rights from abuse at the hands of government.

They don't need another lecture on the virtues of jury service.

Heastie's Deputy Press Secretary Kerri Biche declined to discuss specific details of his jury service.

Records from the Bronx County Clerk's office show that Heastie received seven different postponements from 2005 until 2008, when he finally served two days of jury service starting on Sept. 29, 2008, according to Bronx Division of Jurors First Deputy County Clerk Kay Amer.

Two other jurors joined in voicing concerns about the length of the trial and the burdens of jury service.

Not exact matches

Between 2005 - 2009, prosecutors in Houston County, Alabama had excluded 80 % of blacks who qualified for jury service on death penalty cases.

Mining services entrepreneurs Peter Bartlett and Ron Sayers face the prospect of a new trial next year after a jury was unable to reach a verdict on tax fraud charges.

The growing legal questions around Mr Cohen's services for Mr Trump come as the lawyer faces a grand - jury investigation being led by federal prosecutors in New York City who are exploring bank fraud, wire fraud or campaign finance charges, according to people familiar with the matter who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

The Supreme Court recently decided in Oil States Energy Services v. Greene's Energy Group for the latter view and upheld the constitutionality of an administrative review process that opponents say violates the right to a trial by jury.

In terms of finding alpha, the jury is out, said Louis Scott, founder of Kiema Advisors, who was presenting joint research with Northfield Information Services.

The growing legal questions around Cohen's services for Trump come as the lawyer faces a grand jury investigation being led by federal prosecutors in New York City who are exploring bank fraud, wire fraud or campaign finance charges, according to people familiar with the matter who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

After reviewing the apparent collapse of the freethinking movement after 1900, Schmidt turns to the post-war shift in Supreme Court jurisprudence: the rejection of blasphemy laws, limits on the school - supported study of religion, and the overturning of theistic requirements for public office or jury service.

Iowa Code § 607A.5 (1994) allows a woman to be excused from jury service if she submits written documentation verifying, to the court's satisfaction, that she is the mother of a breastfed child and is responsible for the daily care of the child.

§ 29A.100 (2007) directs judges at all levels of the court to excuse women who are breastfeeding or expressing breast milk from jury service until the child is no longer nursing.

The rights and positions of people with learning disabilities are not judged by juries of their peers but by systems where power is held by «lords» — commissioners, social workers, service providers, psychiatrists, judges and politicians.

That special prosecutor, Roger Adler, told the Daily News he expects to convene a grand jury shortly after Veterans Day as part of his probe into allegations the WFP illegally gave candidates below - cost campaign - related services in 2009.

A jury of seven women and five men found Silver, 74, guilty of all seven counts against him, including two counts of honest services mail fraud and money laundering.

A juror in the Joe Percoco corruption case was called for service on a second jury as deliberations stretch into the seventh week of trial.

We respect the decision of the jury and thank them for their service to the justice system.»

Many people who are perfectly capable of performing jury service are disbarred from doing so.

A federal jury in Manhattan found Joseph Percoco guilty of two counts of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and one count of soliciting bribes after deliberating for parts of three weeks.

Today the jury, after several partial days of deliberation, advised the court that it is deadlocked and several jurors asked to be released from further service.

A federal jury found Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former top aide Joe Percoco guilty on three counts of bribery and conspiracy to commit honest service fraud in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday.

To the growing annals of New York corruption trial history, enter Tuesday, March 13: the day a long - deliberating jury found Joseph Percoco guilty of conspiracy to commit honest services fraud and solicitation of bribes (he was also found not guilty of other charges).

The conviction was vacated on appeal, however, in part due to instructions given to the jury that were found to be incompatible with a Supreme Court ruling on the theft of honest services charges.

Percoco, 48, who served as Cuomo's former campaign manager and deputy executive secretary, was facing six counts, but the jury found him guilty of only three: conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and solicitation of bribes and gratuities, according to POLITICO.

DEAN SKELOS and ADAM SKELOS were found guilty by a unanimous jury on December 11, 2015, of conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right, conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, three counts of extortion under color of official right, and three counts of soliciting and receiving bribes.

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.»

«Mr. Percoco performed services honestly and within the bounds of the law at all times... We are confident that a jury that fairly considers the facts and correctly applies the law will find him not guilty.»

A federal jury voted Tuesday to convict Joe Percoco, former senior aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on three out of six charges of bribery and honest services fraud, but found two executives accused of bribing him not guilty of most of the charges, and remain deadlocked over the guilt of a third executive, after more than a week of deliberation.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former top aide Joe Percoco has been found guilty on three counts of bribery and conspiracy to commit honest service fraud by a federal jury in Manhattan today.

On Friday, May 11, the jury returned a guilty verdict on the corruption charges against the former Assembly 1speaker Sheldon Silver, convicting him on counts of extortion and honest services fraud.

He said the judge might have treated the instructions to the jury differently, and prosecutors «would have been even more careful» about making sure their summation and rebuttal arguments «completely conformed» with the court's new interpretation of the federal theft of honest services law.

The overturned convictions were due to jury instructions incompatible with how the Supreme Court has interpreted honest services fraud, including in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

At least nine of the three dozen people from the New York City area questioned for jury service by Caproni raised concerns about corporate donations to politicians.

The Crown Prosecution Service today thanked the woman for her «courage» during the case, saying that they respected the jury's decision after the footballer was found not guilty of rape.

SILVER was found guilty by a unanimous jury on November 30, 2015, of two counts of honest services wire fraud, two counts of honest services mail fraud, two counts of extortion under color of official right, and one count of engaging in illegal monetary transactions.

The jury found Percoco guilty of scheming to defraud the public of its right to his «honest services» as a public official.

A federal jury found Joseph Percoco, a former aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, guilty of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and solicitation of bribes.

The jury will consider the following charges against both men: three counts of extortion under the color of official right, one count of conspiracy to commit it, one count of conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, and three counts of soliciting bribes.

The grand jury indicted Silver on three counts: one count of honest services mail fraud, one count of honest services wire fraud, and a third count of extortion.

The jury found Joe Percoco guilty of two counts of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and one count of soliciting bribes from an energy company.

A federal jury found New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's former top aide Joe Percoco guilty on three counts of bribery and conspiracy to commit honest service fraud, in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday.

The jury's verdict of guilty on three felony counts of «Conspiracy to Commit Honest Services Wire Fraud» and «Solicitation of Bribes and Gratuity» was a long - awaited victory for the people of New York.

Patricia Spencer - Cisek of Queensbury, executive director of oncology services at Glens Falls Hospital's C.R. Wood Cancer Center, said her service on the jury made her feel that there is an urgency for reform.

A federal jury found Governor Andrew Cuomo's former top aide Joe Percoco guilty on three counts of bribery and conspiracy to commit honest service fraud, in Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday.

At least nine of the three dozen people from the New York City area questioned for jury service by U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni raised concerns about corporate donations to politicians.

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