Sentences with phrase «on the jury of»

She is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and has been on the juries of the Overlook Film Festival and Hollyshorts.

«The Distinguished Citizen» Comedies don't get nearly enough respect come awards time, which is one reason I was delighted to serve on the jury of this year's Monte Carlo Comedy Film Festival, where we honored this brilliant send - up of a self - important expat author (Oscar Martínez, who won best actor in Venice).

Mr. Wong is a signature member of The American Watercolor Society and has served on its Board, on the Jury of Selection and on the Jury of Awards.

In 1958, Marcel Duchamp and Vincent Price sat on the jury of award.

Cao Fei is on the jury of the selection committee for the curatorship of the 8th Berlin Biennale 2014.

In addition to having served on the Jury of the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, Beckwith frequently contributes to numerous publications such as Frieze and Parkett Magazine.

In 1965, then Tate Director Alan Bowness was invited to serve on the jury of the Instituto Torquato di Tella directed by Jorge Romero Brest in Buenos Aires.

He also serves on the jury of the Europa Nostra Awards, also known as the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage.

Not exact matches

A federal jury found Edwards not guilty on one count of violating campaign finance rule, and the judge declared a mistrial on the five remaining criminal charges.

Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, was indicted by a grand jury on Monday morning along with his business associate Rick Gates on a range of charges, including laundering over $ 21 million.

And, of course, the ultimate jury on whether this works is still out because of that old adage: the value of anything ain't what you say it is; it's what someone else is willing to pay you for it.

A federal jury acquitted him in 2012 of accepting illegal political contributions and deadlocked on five other campaign finance charges, allowing him to retain his law license.

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.

«The jury's still out,» according to Bitcoin developer Peter Todd, who says Ethereum has done a good job of marketing itself, but who isn't sold on a technical level.

Edwards was prosecuted on six counts, one of which he was acquitted on while the jury was hung on the other five, resulting in a mistrial.

Martin Shkreli, unaffectionately known as the «pharma bro» — and infamous for his decision to hike the list price of Daraprim, a drug used by HIV / AIDS and cancer patients to combat infections, by more than 5,000 % in 2015 under his former company Turing Pharmaceuticals — was convicted on three criminal securities fraud and conspiracy charges by a Brooklyn jury on Friday.

Announcing their verdict on Thursday, a jury outside of Philadelphia found Bill Cosby guilty of all three sexual assault charges brought against him.

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

Biotechnology entrepreneur William Ardrey faces a retrial on fraud charges after Western Australia's Court of Appeal found the jury had been misdirected in the original court case.

UPDATE: On Friday, the jury cleared venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers of discriminating and retaliating against Ellen Pao.

The jury is still out on whether this will be a fruitful sector for venture capitalists like those backing Blue River Technology, since large exits have been thin on the ground since Monsanto's 2013 acquisition of the Climate Corporation for more than $ 1 billion.

While the science has been proven with the giant displays in theatres, the jury is still out on whether it makes a difference with the sorts of curved televisions that manufacturers have recently been introducing, and doubly so with even smaller screens.

In light of that ruling, Hurst wants a jury to make the final decision on whether he is eligible for the death penalty.

As Politico's Jack Shafer notes, «The Florida jury that found in Hogan's favor thought it was delivering a rebuke to morally reprobate coastal elites on behalf of a hometown hero.

Winners are found this way: First, the Product of the Year Canada jury carefully selects the finalists — that is, products that meet or exceed innovation standards — which are then categorized and judged by an online survey, on behalf of Rogers Insights and conducted by TNS, of thousands of regular Canadian shoppers.

President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and Manafort's business associate Rick Gates were indicted by a grand jury on Monday morning on a range of charges.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 5 - Uber was so driven to «win at all costs» in the race to develop self - driving vehicles that it cheated, a Waymo lawyer told a jury on Monday, the opening salvo in a trade - secrets lawsuit between the two technology companies that could help determine who emerges in the forefront of the autonomous car business.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 5 (Reuters)- Uber was so driven to «win at all costs» in the race to develop self - driving vehicles that it cheated, a Waymo lawyer told a jury on Monday, the opening salvo in a trade - secrets lawsuit between the two technology companies that could help determine who emerges in the forefront of the autonomous car business.

On the other side, the manufacturers risked being publicly vilified, as well as the long - shot possibility that a sympathetic jury would ignore the lack of scientific evidence.

In the Hulk Hogan case, which was also based on an invasion of privacy claim, Harder sued Gawker Media for publishing a clip from a sex video that the former wrestler made with a friend's wife, and won a $ 140 million judgment from a Florida jury.

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

Defense attorneys are focusing their efforts not on proving Tsarnaev's innocence but on trying to spare his life by persuading the jury that Tamerlan bore the brunt of the blame.

Not only because more intimate testimony is expected on the physical and emotional impacts of the bombings, but also because the jury will be hearing much more about Tsarnaev himself as they contemplate whether to sentence him to death.

The jury convicted all defendants on three counts of mail fraud, and Black nabbed an additional conviction on obstruction of justice.

A month later, Samsung asked for a retrial based on its investigation of the jury foreman.

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.

The black voters in Philly, and I say this based on 30 years of picking juries and talking to them, are more likely to have a family member who is a police officer, a family member who is in jail, and a family member who has been killed or severely victimized.

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.

The jury still has to rule on the amount of damages it believes Merck is owed from previous Sovaldi / Harvoni sales while a judge will ultimately decide the royalty percentage Merck should receive going forward.

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.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- The Bangladeshi man accused of attempting a suicide bombing in a busy New York City commuter hub in the name of Islamic State in December was indicted on U.S. terrorism charges by a grand jury on Wednesday.

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.

The 67 - year - old lawyer served in the Bush administration from 2001 to 2005, but resigned after he was indicted by a grand jury on five counts for perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements to the FBI.

The jury is out on some of the acquisitions, in particular Motorola.

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?

A grand jury indicted Libby in 2005 on five counts: two counts of perjury, two counts of making false statements to the FBI and one count of obstruction of justice.

The jury convicted Cosby on three counts — penetration with lack of consent, penetration while unconscious, and penetration after administering an intoxicant — all felonies and punishable by up to 10 years in jail, though the terms could be served concurrently.

If both sides, through their eyes and their people's eyes, have concluded that the plaintiff is absolutely going to win this case, and the plaintiff is going to get a lot of money because they're totally on board with everything that has been presented, then that might be a good reason for the defendant to agree to a settlement with the plaintiff for less money than the potential exposure if the jury comes back and finds willful infringement.

On a similar theme, I was also on the jury for the $ 4 million Zayed Future Energy Prize, based in the United Arab Emirates, which encourages entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions «that will meet the challenges of climate change, energy security and the environment.&raquOn a similar theme, I was also on the jury for the $ 4 million Zayed Future Energy Prize, based in the United Arab Emirates, which encourages entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions «that will meet the challenges of climate change, energy security and the environment.&raquon the jury for the $ 4 million Zayed Future Energy Prize, based in the United Arab Emirates, which encourages entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions «that will meet the challenges of climate change, energy security and the environment.»