Sentences with phrase «reaching a verdict of»

On August 21, 2017, a jury in Los Angeles reached a verdict of $ 417 million in a Johnson & Johnson talcum powder lawsuit.

Not exact matches

The UWC, which uses a different, lower standard of evidence than law enforcement to reach a verdict quickly, delivered a ruling within five months.

And if Gomez, whose multiyear legal battle is likely to reach a head later this month with a verdict expected on May 24, does land behind bars, the chilling effect on researchers will be of Ice Age proportions.

The computer reached the same verdict as the judge 79 percent of the time.

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.

Mining services entrepreneurs Peter Bartlett and Ron Sayers face the prospect of a new trial next year after a jury was unable to reach a verdict on tax fraud charges.

Trump advisors had planned to meet on Tuesday to reach a final decision on the agreement, however a verdict may be announced at the G7 Summit at the end of the month.

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.

The negative verdict on the historicity of the empty tomb has been reached by scholars not because «they are suffering from a failure of nerve and of imagination», believing that «they must not introduce any supernatural agent into the setting of the burial of Jesus».2 This judgment may have been true of some, and particularly those who were already hostile critics of Christianity.

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 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.

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.

Reaching a verdict based on a previous quarterback's body of work is not a failure to equally apply standards.

The jury failed to reach an agreement, and the judge entered a verdict of not guilty.

The jury returned a verdict of accidental death for each of the 95 deceased, and the later inquest into the 96th victim reached the same conclusion.

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.

And Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Tavish Scott accused Mr MacAskill of having «dithered» over the choice before reaching a «disappointing 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.

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.

NEW YORK CITY — As the seventh week of the New York corruption trial comes to a close, jurors have not yet reached 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.

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.

«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.

Bruno was found not guilty on five counts of mail or wire fraud, and the jury failed to reach a verdict on the final count.

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.

The Daily News reports that on Day 3 of jury deliberations, the panel of eight women and four men got the calculator and met for more than six hours before retiring for the night without reaching a verdict.

Jurors convicted Aiello of conspiring to commit honest services fraud, cleared Gerardi of all charges and reached no verdict on Kelly.

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 jury, after eight days of deliberations at a lower Manhattan courtroom, said it reached a verdict at 11:42 a.m. Tuesday.

The judge said the jury had exhausted every way to reach a verdict during their 50 hours of deliberations, stating that «It was fair trial,» according to CNN's Ted Metzger.

At the end of a two - week trial, it took the jury just one day of deliberations to reach a guilty verdict on Friday.

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.

As a measure of how murky the financial dealings of former State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno were, the jury on his corruption trial says they've reached a verdict on two of the counts so far, but are deadlocked on the other six.

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.

A federal jury announced the guilty verdict on four counts of theft but could not reach a unanimous agreement on four additional counts of theft, fraud and conspiracy, leading Judge Frederic Block to declare a mistrial on those 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.

Final verdict: After a disappointing first half of the season, Arrow picks up steam and almost reaches the dizzy expectations we have for it.

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.