Sentences with phrase «read jury instructions»

(If applicable, read the jury instructions.)

[a] t the beginning of the instruction phase, instead of starting immediately to read the jury instructions, the judge spends a few words on extra-textual references and tries to create a more familiar and relaxed atmosphere... given that it is the first day of the actual trial and for some of them it may be the first time they serve as jurors.

On Friday, Azrack said while hearing arguments from the attorneys about the wording of instructions on the law that jurors will get, that she had read jury instructions from the corruption trials of Sheldon Silver, the former state Assembly speaker convicted for a second time on Friday, and Joseph Percoco, former aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

Not exact matches

«One witness, Leonard Genova, testified under a grant of immunity from this court,» Azrack read aloud from a 54 - page jury instruction document.

«Although finding that the Supreme Court's McDonnell decision issued after Silver's conviction required a different legal instruction to the jury, the Second Circuit also held that the evidence presented at the trial was sufficient to prove all the crimes charged against Silver, even under the new legal standard,» Kim's statement reads, in part.

On Thursday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Joan M. Azrack spent more than two hours giving instructions to the jury, reading aloud from 54 pages explaining the law and how jurors should go about considering each charge the defendants face.

The two companies are also dueling over the instructions that will be read to the jury before they get this form.

One helpful articulation of the American doctrine can be seen in California Standard Civil Jury Instruction No. 2334, which can be paraphrased from the American legalese as follows, for ease of reading:

At the conclusion of the presentation of evidence in a medical malpractice trial, the judge will read to the jury a set of instructions that they must follow in deciding the case.

If jury instructions were delivered in «contract» form, nullification would appear in the 47th paragraph of the small print section, way past when 99 percent of jurors had stopped reading.

Once the lawyers have fought over the instructions and the judge decides what will be presented, the jury only gets them in writing... in some states not even in writing, they only get them read to them without a copy to take back to the room.

Click here to read more about the New Circumstantial Evidence Jury Instruction.

Reviewing Medical Malpractice Laws At the conclusion of the presentation of evidence in a medical malpractice trial, the judge will read to the jury a set of instructions that they must follow in deciding the case.

If the justices want to be more explicit about role definitions for trial judges, then, and as odd as it may seem, they might also try writing jury instructions after reading their opinions and before they are published.

The court found that the instruction properly stated California law, especially when the jury instruction was read in its entirety as the first part of the instruction set forth the exact statutory language.