Sentences with phrase «other jurors»

Use the discussions of other jurors to get the quiet jurors talking.

The woman said in a note that her heart was pounding as she was being criticized by other jurors who said she lacked common sense.

In a notorious case, they might «set precedent» in inspiring other jurors to act similarly, but this is not enforceable precedent in the way that case law precedent is.

Later, he told me that during the entire process he (and several other jurors) believed information was not being provided them.

Reed concludes that as with other juror studies, it's difficult to arrive at definitive conclusions about trends because there are so many variables (which I realized in discussing another recent study concluding that English - speaking Hispanics get better results at trial).

There are other jurors who believe in chiropractic care with all their hearts.

The jury gets a chance to deliberate after the case has been presented, and it's very easy for other jurors in the deliberation room to point out they're ignoring that piece of information and not let it influence the final decision.

I could imagine circumstances where a judge may want to limit what jurors reveal about other jurors» comments or actions in the jury room.

But other jurors believed Cryns did not call for help because she had been ordered by the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation to stop practicing midwifery without a license.

Graham told the News last week that other jurors pressured him into voting to convict, but they he would have held out if given a second chance.

Sara Bain and other jurors evidently thought it should have been.

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

Other jurors feel that if Dr. Jones was negligent and they don't bring in a verdict for the plaintiffs, then the doctor won't be held responsible.

And apparently, other jurors spend time online, blogging about their experience sitting on a jury or griping about being called for jury duty.

The same could be done with a favorite quote or with any number of other juror attitudes on free trade, innovation, politics, or history.

The Supreme Court grappled last week with a case concerning racial bias in jury deliberations, as the justices considered the case of a juror in Colorado who urged other jurors to find a man guilty «because he's Mexican and Mexicans take whatever they want.»

That was Juror No. 6, communicating via email in 2015 to Crown attorney Robert Johnston a few days after she and 11 other jurors found two men guilty of heroin - related offences in a case that Johnston prosecuted at the Brampton courthouse.

Dallas told other jurors during their deliberation what she had found in this way, with the consequence that, when this breach was reported to the trial judge, the trial was stopped.

We have all see on TV the judge instruct jurors that during trial they are not to speak about the case with anyone, even other jurors, unless all jurors are present and they are deliberating.

The latest juror issue in the trial comes after a separate juror last week asked to be excused because of her conflicting viewpoints with other jurors.

But it seems likely to revisit the arguments made in the earlier motion for acquittal, along with issues that arose afterward, including one involving a juror who complained to the judge that she was being pressured by other jurors.

«After the trial concludes, I think it can be blogged — respectful of other jurors» privacy and any limits set by the judge.»

I just want the record to reflect, I guess, to be blunt, [the juror], for whatever reason, had some very bad, I guess to be blunt again, body odor, which was extremely strong, and I was able to detect in my lobby, as was the clerk, which is a personal matter for that potential juror, but for the fact that her personal problem was [of] such a magnitude that other jurors who had already been picked... either by act or words had indicated discomfort with that problem.

Other jurors in the box include Hardeep Singh Kohli, Dinah Rose QC, Joshua Rozenberg QC and Professor Russell Jackson, while young people from the Shakespeare Schools Festival are also on the cast list.

«It's not just that the jurors were predisposed to a death verdict — which they were — it's that the arguments that would have been advanced by the other jurors that would have persuaded them otherwise are not present in the jury room,» Dunham said.

The judge allowed her to rejoin other jurors after the woman said the episode would not affect her impartial review of the evidence, and pledged not to mention the matter to other jurors.

What unfolds is a portrait of prejudice and racism as the secret motivations of the other jurors are revealed.

But Drath said he and the other jurors didn't want to lose sight of the victim.

After the other jurors left the courtroom, Azrack told the alternates, «You stay in a special place... [in] a lovely room with a window upgrade.»

While the jury is deliberating, three alternate jurors are assigned to wait too, although they do not sit with the other jurors.

Two other jurors could be dismissed before the trial begins on Monday.

Last week, a woman asked to be removed from the panel trying former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, saying other jurors were bullying her over difference of opinion.

In response, Caproni read the jury a «modified Allen charge» that urged members to «exchange views with the other jurors and listen carefully and respectfully to each other.»

Shortly after deliberations started Tuesday, a juror claimed in a note that she was being bullied by other jurors and asked to be relieved from the panel.

Daniel C. Richman, a former federal prosecutor in Manhattan who is now a law professor at Columbia University, said, «I suppose the claim would be that by not directly addressing the concerns the juror expressed in the notes, the court left room for her to feel unduly coerced by other jurors.»

Even though the agreement was never explicit, she said, she and other jurors were convinced that there was a veiled understanding between the doctor, hungry for state funds, and the politician, pressing for legal referrals.

But Ms. Maynard, 37, and other jurors had higher expectations for their public servants.

The other jurors were actors Jessica Chastain, Will Smith and Fan Bingbing; directors Maren Ade, Paolo Sorrentino and Park Chan - Wook; actress - director - screenwriter - singer Agnes Jaoui; and composer Gabriel Yared.

Other jurors might even have to tell them he's wearing a prosthetic nose!

What's assumed to be a cut - and - dried conviction is contested by Henry Fonda, who isn't convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt, and slowly works through the evidence to pull the other jurors one by one to his side.

The other jurors were Margot Heller, director of the South London gallery; Matthew Higgs, director of the White Columns gallery in New York; Andrew Renton, director of the curators» course at Goldsmiths College; and Sir Nicholas Serota, chairman of the jury.

Other jurors are Ian Berry, director of The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College; Lauren Haynes, curator of contemporary art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Eungie Joo, curator of contemporary art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Lilian Tone, assistant curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, at the Museum of Modern Art.

In theory, we could have started with a longlist of 24 but there was a lot of overlapping between the other jurors - though not with me!

Chaired by Penelope Curtis, Director Tate Britain, the other jurors include, Katrina Brown, Director, The Common Guild, Glasgow; Vasif Kortun, Platform Garanti, Istanbul; Nadia Schneider, Director, Kunsthaus Glarus; and Godfrey Worsdale, Director, BALTIC.

In Madonna's case the Court's representative prudently observed that — while it was good optics to have society's elite come out and show that jury call is for all — the «intent [was not] to create a distraction to other jurors or the business of the court».

A juror who used her smartphone to look up the definition of the word «bolster,» which she shared with other jurors.