Sentences with phrase «question go to the jury»

Not exact matches

«I think the reason we won,» he says, «is because we focused on the questions that were going to be presented to the jury: Were the patents valid?

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?

SilentHunter, Some of the differences are that a newspaper is publishing an account and a dossier; that this is going to an independent complaints commission which the police do not control; that both supporters as well as opponents of the government will ask questions about this - in parliament, on blogs, and in many other places - no doubt pushing for an inquest with a jury, and be pushing for broader changes in policing to ensure its consistency with the human rights legislation we now have (such as those being advocated by Stuart White here on Next Left).

The Foundry Art Centre's juried exhibition «Going Home» asks the artist to explore the question of what is meant by «home».

Then the witnesses will start backpedalling and adding qualifications as soon as the jurors start asking them questions (there is no attorney present to object, though the witness can take a time out to consult counsel outside the hearing of the jurors); there will be 18 - 24 of them: independent businessmen, committed church - goers, accountants, etc — the federal grand jury that I sat on had a member of the technical staff of an international pharmaceutical corporation.

Don't get me wrong; voir dire (the process of asking the jury questions) should not be hurried and the time spent on careful juror selection has a massive impact on the verdict we get for clients, but there are more efficient ways to go about this.

A good Prosecutor will know your weaknesses as a witness and will work with you to get out of these situations while still presenting to the jury that you are to be believed over the accused (most lawyers know exactly what a witness is going to say to any given question long before they ask it in court).

His lordship turned to the question of whether or not there had been a case to go to the jury.

The case went to trial, and the trial court submitted a general negligence question to the jury.

Careful planning of the questions to be submitted to a jury prior to trial will go a long way in putting together an effective case for your client.

Then the court went on to evaluate whether the jury should have gotten the question in the first place.

Having first decided that they were bound to consider the sufficiency of the plea to the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court, and having decided that this plea showed that the Circuit Court had not jurisdiction, and consequently that this is a case to which the judicial power of the United States does not extend, they have gone on to examine the merits of the case as they appeared on the trial before the court and jury on the issues joined on the pleas in bar, and so have reached the question of the power of Congress to pass the act of 1820.

Simple question, if juries are going to count on visual information as part of their decision - making, and your consultant is not insisting on testing graphics, do you really believe you have the best jury consultant?

The Court reasoned that the question of whether the defendant was to be held financially responsible for the injuries was one to be answered by the jury, and the case would go to trial.

The insurers indicated that there are minor exceptions, but their policy on frivolous cases was based on the belief that if they ever begin to settle cases just to make them go away, their credibility will be destroyed and this will encourage more litigation.15 o Vidmar further testified, «Without question the threat of a jury trial is what forces parties to settle cases.