Sentences with phrase «on federal court jury»

I'm currently serving on Federal Court Jury Duty and am going on my second week this week.

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Jury selection in San Francisco federal court is scheduled to begin on Oct. 10.

At trial in San Francisco federal court in 2012, the jury deadlocked on Google's fair use defense.

The jury's verdict came on the same day that a federal appeals court reversed the conviction of a former Jefferies Group LLC managing director who is serving prison time for lying to customers about the prices of mortgage - backed bonds.

A Brooklyn federal court jury found him guilty on three of the eight indictment charges Friday afternoon.

A former U.S. Army sergeant and two other U.S. citizens were found guilty by a jury in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday of taking part in a plot to murder a woman in the Philippines for money, prosecutors said.

On Friday, August 4, 2017, a federal court jury in Brooklyn, New York, found Martin Shkreli, former CEO of biopharmaceutical company Retrophin, guilty on three of eight counts of securities frauOn Friday, August 4, 2017, a federal court jury in Brooklyn, New York, found Martin Shkreli, former CEO of biopharmaceutical company Retrophin, guilty on three of eight counts of securities frauon three of eight counts of securities fraud.

The jury's verdict came on the same day that a federal appeals court reversed the conviction of a former Jefferies Group managing director who is serving prison time for lying to customers about the prices of mortgage - backed bonds.

Canadian tennis player Eugenie Bouchard told a jury in federal court in Brooklyn that she had taken two steps into the training area en route to take an ice bath when she lost her footing «and hit the back of my head on the floor.»

Joseph Percoco, second from left, leaving federal court on Sept. 22, 2016, was among 8 charged Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016, in a 14 - county grand jury indictment as part of a wide - ranging bribery scheme.

A federal appeals court on Monday upheld the bribery conviction of former Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. — despite acknowledging that some of the jury instructions at his trial were technically wrong under the new rules.

Dean Skelos, son Adam arrive at court Republican State Sen. Dean Skelos, his son Adam, and their lawyers arrive at a federal courthouse in Manhattan on Nov. 17, 2015, the second day of jury selection in their corruption trial on charges of conspiracy, bribery and extortion.

After Mr. Silver's arrest on January 22, the federal government had until February 23 to secure a grand jury indictment — which amounts to a formal accusation and the beginning of the court process — on the charges.

The trial of the former state Senate majority leader and his son, Adam Skelos (pictured), begins with jury selection on Monday in Manhattan Federal Court.

The court ruled that federal attorneys had interpreted the law too broadly, and that the jury was not properly instructed on the meaning of an «official act» within the federal bribery statutes.

The trial of the former state Senate majority leader and his son, Adam Skelos, begins with jury selection on Monday in Manhattan Federal Court.

The verdict came on the jury's third day of deliberations, after a five - week trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan.

The former Speaker was indicted on Thursday by a grand jury in Manhattan federal court.

Dean and Adam Skelos leave federal court in Manhattan after a jury found them both guilty in their corruption case on Dec. 11, 2015.

Five months after a jury convicted the former State Senate powerbroker (and Four Amigos alumnus) on four counts of theft, Pedro Espada Jr. stood in Brooklyn federal court yesterday and pled guilty to one charge of tax evasion.

Former Republican state Senate leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, leave federal court in Foley Square in Manhattan after a jury found them both guilty of corruption on Dec. 11, 2015.

A New York federal judge ruled Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son can stay free on bail while appealing their convictions on corruption charges, saying jury instructions in their trial could be flawed in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

Silver was indicted on Thursday by a grand jury in Manhattan federal court.

Leibell, R - Carmel — who pleaded guilty in December to obstructing a federal grand jury that was investigating whether he extorted cash payments from lawyers working in Putnam County and failed to report on his income tax returns tens of thousands of dollars in cash payments he received from those lawyers — was to be sentenced in federal court in White Plains this coming Monday.

James Burke, the former Suffolk County police chief of department, was arrested on charges of assaulting a handcuffed suspect and conspiring to cover it up during a federal grand jury investigation, according to court documents.

Valerie E. Caproni, the presiding judge in Federal District Court, kept lawyers and prospective jurors at the courthouse late on Monday in order to ensure that jury selection did not take too long.

The jury in the political corruption case against Dean G. Skelos, the former State Senate majority leader, and his son began its deliberations on Thursday, after a nearly four - week trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan.

A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned the 2015 corruption conviction of Sheldon Silver, once the powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, saying the judge's jury instructions were in error in light of a United States Supreme Court decision that has since narrowed the legal definition of corrupcourt on Thursday overturned the 2015 corruption conviction of Sheldon Silver, once the powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, saying the judge's jury instructions were in error in light of a United States Supreme Court decision that has since narrowed the legal definition of corrupCourt decision that has since narrowed the legal definition of corruption.

After eight days of strained deliberations, the jury in Federal District Court in Manhattan delivered a split verdict: It found Mr. Percoco not guilty of extortion and conspiracy to commit extortion, but appeared to find fault with his dealings on behalf of Competitive Power Ventures, a Maryland - based power company.

In a letter sent on Saturday to Judge Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court in Manhattan, the government asked the judge to explain in court that Mr. Howe's bail had been revoked, «in an effort to avoid speculation by the jury.&rCourt in Manhattan, the government asked the judge to explain in court that Mr. Howe's bail had been revoked, «in an effort to avoid speculation by the jury.&rcourt that Mr. Howe's bail had been revoked, «in an effort to avoid speculation by the jury.»

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's one - time top adviser Joseph Percoco was convicted Tuesday on three counts of soliciting and taking bribes by a Manhattan federal court jury after an eight - week trial.

On Wednesday, outside the presence of the jury, the judge, Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court in Manhattan, made a similar observation.

Federal grand jury witnesses get only «use immunity,» meaning the prosecutor could not use the murder confession in court but could still convict the killer on other proof.

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In a unanimous opinion on April 5, a three - judge panel of the San Francisco - based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit reinstated a jury award that a federal magistrate judge threw out in 2002.

A report in The Boston Globe discusses the case scheduled to be argued today before the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that centers on a plan by U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner to try to get more African - Americans on the jury that will decide the federal death penalty case against two black men from Boston.

«Just this week, a woman wanted to serve on a jury, but there was nothing we could do,» said a clerk in Brooklyn federal court.

On September 5, 2012, however, the pendulum may have begun to swing back the other way when a federal court in Oklahoma threw out the $ 951,000 jury verdict in the Yeaman case.

Megan C. Deluhery was quoted in a news article in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly on a federal appeals court decision upholding jury instructions in an employment discrimination case.

Laura has successfully argued a motion to dismiss a federal securities fraud class action, examined the expert witness and conducted the post-trial argument on evidentiary and valuation issues in an appraisal action in Delaware Chancery Court, and obtained a favorable federal jury verdict after a multi-day prisoner civil rights trial.

Depending on the case, you might have the opportunity to represent your client during a jury trial in federal court.

On appeal, Esso argued that he was denied a fair trial when the district court allowed the jury to take home the copy of the indictment — an issue that the Second Circuit said appeared to be one of first impression in any federal or state court.

A report in The Boston Globe discusses the case scheduled to be argued today before the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that centers on a plan by U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner to try to get more African - Americans on the jury that will decide the federal death penalty case against two black men from -LSB-...]

On his New York Personal Injury Law Blog, Eric Turkewitz writes that although Houston criminal defense attorney Mark Bennett is «live - twittering» today (here) while his protege picks a jury, at least one federal court ruled just last week that the federal rules prohibit tweets from court.

Howard Bashman comments on this story from the New York Times (6/22/06), reporting that eight pages of a 51 - page government brief filed in federal court that had been blacked out to protect sensitive information concerning a grand jury investigation of steroid use in baseball can be viewed by cutting and pasting the passages into a word - processing document.

These include: United States v. Resendiz - Ponce, which presents the question whether the omission of an element from a federal indictment can constitute harmless error (9th Circuit says no); Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc. v. Metrophones Telecommunications, Inc., on whether a provider of pay phone services can sue a long distance carrier for alleged violations of the Federal Communications Commission's regulations concerning compensation for coinless pay phone calls (9th Circuit says yes); Cunningham v. California, a sentencing case involving whether whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law violates the 6th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution by permitting California state court judges at sentencing to impose enhanced sentenced based on their determination of facts neither found by the jury nor admitted by the defendant; and Carey v. Musladin, reviewing the 9th Circuit's decision to overturn a murder conviction of a defendant who claimed he was denied a fair trial because the victim's relatives appeared in court wearing buttons with the deceased's picture ofederal indictment can constitute harmless error (9th Circuit says no); Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc. v. Metrophones Telecommunications, Inc., on whether a provider of pay phone services can sue a long distance carrier for alleged violations of the Federal Communications Commission's regulations concerning compensation for coinless pay phone calls (9th Circuit says yes); Cunningham v. California, a sentencing case involving whether whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law violates the 6th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution by permitting California state court judges at sentencing to impose enhanced sentenced based on their determination of facts neither found by the jury nor admitted by the defendant; and Carey v. Musladin, reviewing the 9th Circuit's decision to overturn a murder conviction of a defendant who claimed he was denied a fair trial because the victim's relatives appeared in court wearing buttons with the deceased's picture oFederal Communications Commission's regulations concerning compensation for coinless pay phone calls (9th Circuit says yes); Cunningham v. California, a sentencing case involving whether whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law violates the 6th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution by permitting California state court judges at sentencing to impose enhanced sentenced based on their determination of facts neither found by the jury nor admitted by the defendant; and Carey v. Musladin, reviewing the 9th Circuit's decision to overturn a murder conviction of a defendant who claimed he was denied a fair trial because the victim's relatives appeared in court wearing buttons with the deceased's picture on them.

Indeed, the status of this topic as free speech that is supposed to be guaranteed under the First Amendment has been upheld by courts more than once: ● in Florida, where a judge affirmed that handing out FIJA brochures regarding jury nullification is legal based on principles of free speech ● in New York, where a federal judge dismissed false jury tampering charges against someone handing out brochures that advocated jury nullification ● in Colorado, where a judge dismissed false jury tampering charges against two people handing out FIJA's educational material on jury nullification

Since 2001, Mr. Cannella has focused on litigation pertaining to toxic torts, product liability, serious personal injury, and wrongful death, successfully handling multi-million dollar cases and numerous jury and bench trials, both in state and federal court.

On April 19, 2018, Weil secured a complete defense jury verdict for C&S Wholesale Grocers following nine days of trial in an antitrust class action in Minnesota federal court.

Tomahawk v. Hess Corp., Wyoming 2015 — Obtained favorable jury verdict for Hess in Wyoming federal court on claims for breach of contract and bad faith.