Sentences with phrase «person jury found»

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He said when a brutal crime is committed it's difficult to convince a jury the person accused doesn't «deserve the condemnation that comes from a finding of guilty.»

I find that the jury is more engaged when there's a real, live person sitting there in the chair.

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 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.»

In order to find Dr. Edelin guilty, charged Judge McGuire, the jury had to determine that the aborted fetus had become a «person.»

The state Court of Appeals in a ruling Thursday found judges will now be required to instruct juries that witness identifications of suspects of a different race is less reliable than when people make IDs from their own race.

If juries find plaintiffs» recovered memories credible, people go to jail.

Bookies» favourite The Lobster, a British co-production directed by Greek film - maker Yorgos Lanthimos, took the Prix du Jury (or third prize) for his satire about single people who must find a mate within 45 days or be turned into a wild animal.

Like his 2009 debut, «Samson & Delilah,» the new film, which won a special jury prize in Venice, finds Thornton expressing a palpable anger at the brutal mistreatment of his country's Aboriginal people, in a style that melds classical western filmmaking with studied art - film longueurs.

A jury has found an Oregon private school that sponsored a student mountain - climbing expedition in which nine people died in 1986 liable in the death of one teenage student.

He turns to me abruptly and pretends to startle — our old gag — and explains how justice is either impersonal and indifferent or extremely personal and shamelessly vindictive, and how finding yourself in front of our volatile jury system means submitting your fate to a bunch of people whose omelets you wouldn't dream of eating for fear they hadn't washed their hands.

«On Aug. 31, 2017, a jury in Texas found that certain Wii and Wii U video game systems and software bundles infringed a patent belonging to iLife Technologies Inc. related to detecting if a person has fallen down.

Of Papers, Please, Ahmed said, «The jury found this an excellent example of a game with the power to affect people and the way they think about contemporary issues of identity in a subtle but powerful way, and all while effectively holding down a desk job.»

As soon as they see evidence against their client — the fossil fuel industry and those people making money off business - as - usual — they trash that evidence and bring forth whatever tidbits they can find to confuse the judge and jury.

Gone are the days when presenting your evidence to a mock jury required the arduous task of finding 12 people who could disrupt their daily lives to be in the same room at the same.

Thaddeus Hoffmeister, a law professor who also blogs about juries, told the Post that, for young people in particular, «digital activity» such as looking up words or finding information on Wikipedia is as normal as breathing.

Court of Appeal finds government did not make reasonable efforts to include Aboriginal persons in jury rolls.

A person should find an attorney that has years of experience helping injured parties and has a record of tried cases in front of a jury.

I find it very disturbing that people with supervisory authority at the courthouse could still think they can call the police on our well - litigated jury nullification activity.

In the case of comparative negligence, if a person riding their bike in a bike lane at night was struck by a speeding car, but the bicyclist was also riding without a headlight or reflectors, a jury may find the motorist 75 percent at - fault and the cyclist 25 percent at - fault.

This matters because if a JURY finds an injured person 50 % at fault under Idaho law an injured person can not recover any portion of their damages no matter how badly hurt they might be.

For example, if you are in a car accident where the person who hit you ran a red light while you were speeding, the jury can find that running the red light was 80 percent negligent while your speeding was 20 percent negligent.

That means being honest with the judge, opposing counsel, oftentimes the insurance company representative (which I have found is always the person behind the scenes controlling the money decisions and is the reason the case is going to trial; the powerful decision - maker who the judge and jury never meet or even get to know about), and most importantly, the jury.

I did a quick search for «jury duty» and found some people that blogged about it.

When a New Mexico semi-truck accident occurs, a jury can sometimes hold the driver liable and find that the driver of a truck breached a duty owed to an injured person, even if the injured person was violating a law leading up to the collision.

The majority of the Supreme Court found that Ontario made reasonable efforts to ensure that Aboriginal people on reserve were included in the jury roll, even though the province's efforts to increase Aboriginal participation and assemble a representative jury roll were unsuccessful.

In the case of Ontario, the province has taken some steps to address the findings of the Iacobucci report, including allowing Aboriginal people living on reserves to volunteer for jury rolls for the purposes of inquests under the Coroner's Act.

If a lawyer is in the jury, that person will undoubtedly be able to explain exactly what the law requires for a finding, or exactly why a certain finding should be had.

I found early on that if I was willing to dig deep enough to find out the truth about wrongs being committed and then have the ability and courage to carry that truth to the people who can do something about it — the jury — then I can make a positive impact in this world,» says Montevideo.

Assuming a person has a million dollars» worth of injuries, and a court or jury should finds that a Plaintiff motorcycle rider is 20 % at fault, they will still be entitled to $ 800,000 in compensation.

A 12 - person jury had found Burkhart, now 38, guilty at trial in 2002.

Finding a Lawyer That Has Experience Defending Cases Similar to Yours When you are sitting in front of a judge or jury, you are basically looking to these people to make decisions that are going to affect your life.

Following trial, a 12 - person Sacramento jury found both McDonold and Silva Trucking negligent.

In the Stephan case, people will disagree on the verdict based on their own concept of parenting and strongly held beliefs but, accepting that the jury was properly instructed on the law, the finding of guilt would be based on a finding that in all of the circumstances, objectively viewed, the Stephans» conduct was a marked departure from that of the reasonably prudent parent.

I think it would be fair if both the judge would be allowed to include the lesser offence (to avoid a guilty person walking free), and for the defence as well (to prevent the defendant from unfairly being found guilty of the worse charge because the jury doesn't want him to go free when he is clearly guilty).

If a judge can find facts that are inconsistent with the jury's findings and that have legal effect, what justification is there to summon people away from their lives to compel them to attend court?

The grand jury which found this indictment consisted of only fifteen persons, and the question to be determined is whether the section of the Revised Statutes referred to or the statute of the Territory governs the case.

An indictment for bigamy under sect. 5352 may, therefore, be found in a district court of Utah, by a grand jury of fifteen persons, impaneled pursuant to the laws of that Territory.

We are therefore of the opinion that the court below no more erred in sustaining this indictment than it did at a former term, at the instance of this same plaintiff in error, in adjudging another bad which was found against him for the same offence by a grand jury composed of twenty - three persons.