Sentences with phrase «official jury decision»

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The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that there was sufficient evidence to convict the veteran legislator in two corruption schemes, but jury instructions didn't comply with a new Supreme Court decision narrowing the type of acts required of public officials in a quid - pro-quo bribery scheme to formal exercises of government power.

In its decision regarding Silver's case, the appeals court ruled in 2017 that the definition of official corruption provided to the jurors differed from the one used by the U.S. Supreme Court when it overturned the corruption conviction of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, and so it was possible the jury could have ruled differently had it been instructed on the updated definition of the law.

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.»

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.

But in the jury instructions, the judge's explanation of an official action was too broad, the appeals court found, because it swept in some conduct that the Supreme Court's decision would now exclude.

The top court decision, which came shortly after the Skelos and Silver verdicts, clarified what constitutes an «official act» of corruption and defense lawyers in both cases contend that the ruling invalidates legal instructions given to their Manhattan juries.

Staten Island's white elected officials did not blast the grand jury's decision.

While Mayor Bill de Blasio did not directly criticize the decision, Ms. Rose, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and other minority elected officials angrily denounced the outcome, echoing reaction that came after a grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer for shooting a black teenager in Ferguson, Mo..

«Here, the instructions did not convey to the jury that an official action must be a decision or action on a matter involving the formal exercise of government power akin to a lawsuit, hearing, or agency determination,» Cabranes wrote.

School officials started planning their response to the grand jury decision early in the school year, according to Education Week.

A federal appeals court vacated the conviction last year, however, because jury instructions didn't reflect a later U.S. Supreme Court decision narrowing the meaning of official acts that can support a federal bribery conviction.

Do the available official statistics allow us to compare the conviction / acquittal rate between rape trials and trials for the generality of offences where juries have actually deliberated and given verdicts of their own, that is excluding directed acquittals after the judge has made a decision to stop the case?