Sentences with phrase «reaching a verdict in»

The morning after the jury reached a verdict in the Trayvon Martin case, I watched the sun rise over snowcapped mountains from the coffee shop at the Many Glacier Hotel in Glacier National Park.

It took jurors less than 90 minutes to reach a verdict in the eight - week corruption trial of ex-NYC Councilman Dan Halloran that was marked by delays, a mistrial for a co-defendant — state Sen. Malcolm Smith — and several juror dismissals for personal reasons.

The jury failed to reach a verdict in the trial, amid signs they were struggling to understand the case or the requirements asked of them.

NEW YORK (AP)-- A jury had deliberated about four hours without reaching a verdict in the bribery trial of a former top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

A damning report was quietly published three years later, just as a jury was reaching its verdict in the Lee Rigby trial.

On June 24, 1913, 12 men reached a verdict in the trial of Anna Dotson, the first woman in Tennessee history to face possible hanging for murder.

The judge's summing up was so highly favourable to Archer that it took the jury only 4 hours to digest the content of a three week trial and reach a verdict in his favour.

Not exact matches

The judge presiding over the trial of Barminco co-founder Peter Bartlett and Ausdrill managing director Ron Sayers today ordered the jury to keep deliberating in a bid to reach a verdict.

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.

In this case, we all will want to see what is asked of us when, for instance, the Anglican Communion reaches its «existential crossroads,» where a «verdict» will finally be pronounced, after thirteen long years.

It is somewhat ironical to suggest that Hartshorne's God lacking in concreteness; but, at least from the standpoint of Christian theology, this is precisely the verdict that has been reached.

In their attempt to reach a definitive moral verdict, those who raise or respond to such questions often blur the line between historical reality and speculation.

In prerevolutionary times, he notes, juries reached verdicts and applied the law consistently «largely because men selected to juries shared a... set of ethical values and assumptions.

24 - 26), surely reaching back in its present form to a time not far removed from the Mosaic era itself, Moses» brush with death - by illness or by accident - is recounted; and it is the verdict of the earliest strand of the record that Moses» serious condition was the occasion for the performance of the rite of circumcision as the outward sign of commitment to the Lord's promise and purpose so that commitment was sealed, as it were, in blood.

Kuhlmann's impression, he said, was that courts tended to rule on the privilege in the direction of the verdict the court thought ought to be reached.

But 15 years after the worst terrorist attacks in American history, we are still having to defend the existence of a facility and a process when not a single verdict has been reached in those attacks.

(CNN)- 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.

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.

His life will be in shambles by hateful folks looking to do him in,,,, Justice seems sometimes cruel but mob revenge is no answer and George's peers being the jurists have reached a verdict that should put an end to anyone's perspectives deemed otherwise,,,

Nevertheless, he continues to deny any wrongdoing, as reported by Sky Sports, with the defence due to make its final statement on April 11 before a verdict is reached in mid-May.

But in terms of football, I do not understand why, and from a legal point of view, I have not had a trial, I am not guilty, we will have to wait until the court reaches a verdict.

It's fair to say that Tottenham didn't reach their verdict on the basis of the 24 - year - old form's at Inter, as he the Frenchman struggled badly in Italy last season and was in turn sent out on loan to Valencia this past summer.

«With today's verdict of guilty reached by an impartial and independent jury, the clean - up of corruption in New York continues in courtrooms.

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

After more than 50 hours of deliberations over five days, the jury in the Bill Cosby case was unable to reach a unanimous verdict on any of the three charges the entertainer was facing.

Jurors in the corruption trial of Joseph Percoco and three co-defendants went home for the weekend without reaching a verdict.

Jurors on Friday finished their first day of deliberations in the federal corruption trial of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, his wife, Linda, and former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto without reaching a verdict.

«Answering this question will not help you in any way whatsoever to reach a true verdict in this case.

«It is not clear beyond a reasonable doubt that a rational jury would have reached the same conclusion if properly instructed, as is required by the law for the verdict to stand,» Jose Cabranes of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision said in his decision.

[6] The jury was unable to reach verdicts on two charges of conspiring to cause misconduct in public office in relation to the alleged purchase of confidential royal phone directories in 2005 from a palace police officer.

An Independent Police Complaints Commission investigation [75] into the use of firearms by Metropolitan Police Officers, which was published on 19 December 2013 once a verdict had been reached in the defendants» trial, concluded that the officers who had used force on 22 May 2013 had «acted entirely appropriately» and had shown «skill and professionalism».

As PMQs wore on, news dripped in that the remainder of the Coulson case had collapsed, with the jury unable to reach a verdict.

«With today's verdict of guilty reached by an impartial and independent jury, the clean - up of corruption in New York continues in courtrooms,» Mr. Bharara said a statement.

In Thursday's ruling, the appellate court ruled the judge's erroneous instruction to the jury at Silver's trial «was not harmless because it is not clear beyond a reasonable doubt that a rational jury would have reached the same conclusion if properly instructed, as is required by law for the verdict to stand.»

The jurors also could not reach a verdict on two additional counts of illegal practices in campaign financing, and acquitted the Bridgeport Democrat of one count of witness tampering.

The Assembly Ethics committee met in October 2008, reaching a «not guilty» verdict [86][87] and ruling that no harassment ever occurred, and unanimously voted to throw out the charges against Assemblyman Ball.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Hours after jurors reached a partial verdict in the federal fraud case against former Bronx senator Pedro Espada Jr., the judge declared a mistrial in the remaining conspiracy and tax fraud counts against the politician and in all counts against his son.

Several jurors in the Percoco case told the judge they can't reach a verdict and asked to be released.

«After considering the facts and the evidence with open minds, and using your instructions as a roadmap, We remain unable to reach a unanimous verdict,» read the note, which was sent at 9:35 a.m., 20 minutes after jurors arrived in Manhattan Federal Court.

A judge ruled the jury reached the verdict against the preponderance of evidence in the case because prosecutors strayed from the legal theory presented in the original indictment.

They acquitted Bruno on five counts and couldn't reach a verdict on one, in addition to the two guilty verdicts.

The jury in Federal District Court in Manhattan took two days to reach its verdict against Mr. Skelos, and his son, Adam, finding them guilty of all eight bribery, extortion and conspiracy counts.

All other evidence being equal, juries exposed to very graphic photographs of the dead or seriously injured are more likely to convict than juries which do not see such images and are less demanding in the burden of proof that they need to reach their verdict.

Just how far - reaching the verdict is will become clear in the years ahead.

I'm officially done with Jury Duty after nine days in court as we reached a verdict yesterday afternoon.

A week after a verdict was reached in Trayvon Martin's murder trial, «Fruitvale Station,» a drama about the killing of a young African - American man, continues to score big at the specialty box office.

THE VERDICT: Herzog reaches parts of the web other filmmakers wouldn't think to poke in this diligent, droll docu - browse.

The trial of a 17 - year - old Troy, Mich., girl accused of poisoning her teacher with the hallucinogenic drug lsd ended late last month in a mistrial after jurors announced they could not reach a verdict.

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT QUESTIONS ACCJC: The Education Department recommended that the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, which oversees accreditors, gives the City College of San Francisco's accrediting a year to reach compliance — which is becoming a standard verdict in NACIQI's new age of granularity.

A jury of four women and two men reached a unanimous verdict in Thompson's favor on Thursday, her lawyers from the Michael Lamonsoff firm said.