Sentences with phrase «on jury trial»

As in Booker, the Court tried and failed to rein in the courts» infringements on the jury trial right.

Received a defense verdict on jury trial in favor of an employer accused of employment discrimination by the EEOC.

Can you recommend how I might evoke sympathy for my client defendants thereby securing their acquittals on their jury trials when, strictly speaking, they have no defence in law?

«Second, there are the numerous statutory limits on jury trials, such as workers» compensation, no - fault auto claims, state tort claims acts and the like, which remove the right to jury trial altogether or limit the damages that can be awarded,» he says.

Throughout his career, he tried matters in both court and arbitrations, assisted on jury trials, performed transactional work, and provided ongoing advice and counsel.

Justice Kennedy's pragmatic understanding of the world of criminal justice today trumps Justice Scalia's eighteenth - century focus on jury trials.

Not exact matches

The jury spent a total of just 14 hours in the penalty phase of the trial after finding Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 criminal counts, but an automatic appeal means his case will drag on.

«Edwards wasn't convicted, but his jury hung on several counts, and the trial was driven by factual questions: Did Edwards know about the payments, and was their purpose political, or were they simply intended to keep the peace within Edwards's marriage?»

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

After being found guilty in a 2012 jury trial on theft and mail fraud charges, Lanham was sentenced to three years in prison.

The accord came ahead of a jury trial that was set to begin on Monday in state court in Woburn, Massachusetts.

In criminal trials, the burden of proof lies on the prosecution, meaning the jury will have to find Hernandez guilty «beyond a reasonable doubt.»

While they opened the trial by admitting Tsarnaev's role, he has maintained his not - guilty plea, leaving prosecutors to first convince the jury of his guilt before moving on to the question of whether he should be sentenced to death or to life in prison without possibility of parole.

But it's also worth considering that an employer who fires an employee simply based on the wrongdoing itself is effectively imposing a penalty — acting like judge, jury, and executioner — without any of the due - process protections that accompany a criminal trial.

Ross Ulbricht, 30, was convicted on all seven counts he faced by a federal jury in Manhattan, following a closely - watched trial that spilled out of U.S. investigations into the use of the digital currency bitcoin for drug trafficking and other crimes.

On June 6, 2017, lawyers presented opening statements in the trial, with Carter having waived her right to a trial by jury.

There's a whole process that's set up to ensure that the jury that finally gets impaneled is an objective group of people with no connection with anything going on in the case that might persuade them to cast a decision that's inconsistent with the evidence that's presented at the trial.

It's probably not going to be possible to have a jury of people that have never heard of the bands, that have never heard the music, but the real question is, even with that understanding, can they only focus on the evidence that's being presented by the parties at trial and only use that evidence and nothing from their own life experience outside of the courtroom to make that decision?

In Cosby's first trial last year, another jury had failed to agree on an outcome, teeing up the retrial that played out in Pennsylvania this month.

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.

A San Francisco jury trial on the matter had been set to start in June, but that could be taken off the table if the judge presiding over the case approves the agreement.

Defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran Jr. puts on gloves on September 27, 1995 while he addresses the jury during closing arguments during the O.J. Simpson double murder trial.

O.J. Simpson looks at a new pair of Aris extra-large gloves which the prosecutors had him put on for the jury 21 June 1995 during his double murder trial in Los Angeles.

As one airline lawyer commented after the trial: «Having a jury determine that the provisions in that contract were illegal obviously raises very serious implications for Sabre if they want to continue to insist on them in contracts.»

If Gawker does lose the jury trial, it is likely to win on appeal.

Ross Ulbricht, 30, was found guilty by a Manhattan federal jury on all seven counts he faced after a closely watched four - week trial spilling out of U.S. investigations of the use of the bitcoin digital currency for drug trafficking and other crimes.

On March 20, he held a mock trial of the Muslim Holy Book, and the jury — consisting of twelve people from his congregation — found the book guilty of five «crimes against humanity,» including the promotion of terrorist acts and «the death, rape and torture of people worldwide whose only crime is not being of the Islamic faith.»

CNN: Philadelphia abuse trial has taken toll on very Catholic city A Philadelphia sex abuse trial in which a jury reached a mixed verdict on a church higher - up accused of protecting sexually abusive priests was closely watched for its national implications.

If I were on trial, I would hope the jury is made up of people who only accept proof, not the kind that believe something on faith.

I am sure that if anyone were charged with a crime, or is on trial, I am sure that if any of those lines were used in the presence of a police officer, judge, jury, etc., that person would be ticking off that person and hurting his own case.

Preliminary hearings ensued, and dismissals of charges, and trials and mistrials and retrials, and an acquittal, and two hung juries, and defections and elections of district attorneys, and the McMartin defense team carried on, until the list of defendants had dwindled to one, young Raymond Buckey, a surfer dude who had not seen the sun in years, whose charges were finally dismissed in 1990.

Maybe justice and the good society are brought about precisely by lawyers and judges sending the jury out of the courtroom while they decide whether to admit the testimony of an old black woman who has been listening in on the whole trial of her son.

Here was a black man obviously involved to some degree in the theft of church funds and the murder of a white man in a southern city, now on trial in «the Man's» court before an all - white middle - class jury.

If I am ever a defendant in a murder trial, I hope you are on the jury.

On the other hand, the Universal Declaration omits the Anglo - American right of trial by jury, and two peculiarly North American conceptions: the right to bear arms, and the prohibition of established religion.

There is a brief mention in Article III of jury trial not being available for impeachment, and there is probably a suggestion in Article I that members of Congress will not usually be impeached, as each house has the power to (I, 5) to expel one of their members on their own.

CNN: No verdict in Philadelphia priest sex abuse trial, source says A Philadelphia jury was unable to reach a verdict Wednesday on four of five charges in a landmark priest sex abuse case, according to a source familiar with the proceeding.

«Yvonne Cryns told the parents that she had delivered hundreds of babies, including breech babies, and even showed them pictures of those deliveries,» Lake County Assistant State's Atty. Claudia Kasten told the jury as Cryns» trial on involuntary manslaughter charges began in a Waukegan courtroom.

The jury in the Joe Percoco federal corruption trial resumes its work today, after appearing to focus much of its attention last Friday on the low - show job given to Percoco's wife, Lisa, by a Maryland - based energy company, Competitive Power Ventures, which is behind a controversial new power plant in Orange County.

He goes on to demonstrate how fundamental safeguards that I was brought up to take for granted - habeas corpus, trial by jury, the presumption of innocence - have been weakened.

Jury selection began yesterday in the trial of two of the three former University at Albany students accused of fabricating a racially motivated hate crime on a CDTA bus last year.

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.

He and Pedro G. face a new trial in Brooklyn on charges that the jury failed to reach a verdict on in May.

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.

U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni, openly frustrated by the pace of the trial's proceedings, said she plans on telling the jury first thing Thursday it's likely they won't begin deliberations in the trial until the week of March 5.

Last month, the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Silver's conviction for doing favors on behalf of a cancer researcher and developer who funneled $ 4 million legal referral fees to the former speaker, ruling the jury instructions were wrong and Silver was entitled to a new trial.

Artist sketch shows John Venditto, second from top left, and Linda and Edward Mangano, second and third from the right, during jury selection for their federal corruption trial in Central Islip on March 12.

Two others were also excused when they told Manhattan federal Judge Valerie Caproni that their hatred of corruption was so strong they wouldn't want themselves on the jury if they were on trial.

The jury drama in the corruption trial of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver continued on Monday, as Juror No. 11, an African - American man from the Bronx, asked to be dismissed over a conflict of interest.

Pryce's first trial was thrown out after a series of questions by the jury prompted the judge to conclude they had fundamentally failed to understand the legal concepts they were being asked to pass judgement on.